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Keith caught the gleam in the old fellow's deep eye, and looked away. "I can't make it out. Phrony she likes him." Keith fastened his gaze on something out of the window. "I don't know him," pursued the squire; "But I don't think he'd suit Phrony.
Adam Rawson asked him to come and live at his house. "You might give Phrony a few extra lessons to fit her for a bo'din'-school," he said. "I want her to have the best edvantages." Keith soon ingratiated himself further with the old squire. He broke his young horses for him, drove his wagon, mended his vehicles, and was ready to turn his hand to anything that came up about the place.
"If it's worth that to him," he said, "it's worth that to me. We'll hold on awhile, and let him open a track for us. You look up the lines and keep your eye on 'em. Draw me some pictures of the lands. I reckon Phrony will have a pretty good patrimony before I'm through." He gave Keith a shrewd glance which, however, that young man did not see.
"I wouldn't have told you now, but I wanted to help you out of the fix that " "That you have helped me get into," said Wickersham, with a sneer. "There is no trouble about it," Plume went on. "You don't want to marry anybody else now, and meantime it will give you the chance you want of controlling old Rawson's interest down there. The old fellow can't live long, and Phrony is his only heir.
And the girl was named Tripper; she might have called herself 'Phrony' Tripper." "My dear sir, I cannot undertake to remember the names of all the persons whom I happen to come in contact with in the performance of my sacred functions," began Mr. Rimmon. His voice had changed, and a certain querulousness had crept into it.
They arranged and disarranged and rearranged and discarded old furniture and bought new with almost the abandon of a newly married couple fitting out their first home.... It was surprising what they managed to accomplish with it; when they were finished, there wasn't a prettier nor a more home-like residence in all Radville and Phrony Whitmarsh was Nat's slave, even as Miss Carpenter had been.
Bluffy was asked about it he denied the story in toto. He wasn't such a fool as to do such a thing as that, he said. For the rest, he cursed Mr. Plume with bell, book, and candle. A rumor came to Keith one morning a few days later that Phrony Tripper had disappeared.
And this is how Fate and the medical profession and the O. C. and C. C. Railroad combined to give little Hiram Joash Baker his birthday, and explains why, as he strolled down Main Street that afternoon, Captain Hiram was heard to sing heartily: Haul on the bowline, the 'Phrony is a-rollin', Haul on the bowline, the bowline, HAUL!
The deep fire glowed for a while and then grew dull again, and the old man sank back into his former grim silence. The Doctor looked at him commiseratingly. Keith had written him fully of Phrony and her condition, and he had decided to say nothing to the old grandfather. Wickersham began to renew his visits to Mrs. Wentworth, which he had discontinued for a time when he had found himself repulsed.
Keith learned that he had fallen from a tree and broken his leg "gettin' hawks' eggs for Phrony," Keith's informant reported. Phrony was quite scornful about it, but a little perky as well. "If a boy was such a fool as to go up a tree when he had been told it wouldn't hold him, she could not help it. She did not want the eggs, anyhow," she said disdainfully.
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