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Updated: June 15, 2025
This one was handed down off the shelf in a more or less chaotic condition, and for a period of years betrayed considerable doubt as to its own intentions, undecided whether they were classical or technical; and in the settlement of that doubt lay the secret of the past of the one man in Plattville so unhappy as to possess a past.
The two operators seemed depressed, declaring the luck against them and the Plattville people too brilliant at the game. It was wonderful how the young couples worked their way arm-in-arm through the thickest crowds, never separating. Even at the lemonade stands they drank holding the glasses in their outer hands such are the sacrifices demanded by etiquette.
"I believe I remember that windmill on the left, and the big water tank on the hill. Yes, Plattville must lie down there in the valley. Now to slip along the down grade. Just seven miles from home; but I wish I was there now," he was saying, as he passed over the crest of the elevation.
They're laying for Harkless partly for revenge and partly because they daren't do anything until he's out of the way." The girl gave a low cry with a sharp intake of breath. "Ah! One grows tired of this everlasting American patience! Why don't the Plattville people do something before they " "It's just as I say," Briscoe answered; "our folks are sort of used to them.
The young man accepted the hand-clasp with some resignation, but rejected the suggestion of privacy. "A telegram from Plattville reached me half an hour ago," he said. "I should have had it sooner, but I have been in the country all day." The two men who had been talking with the superintendent turned quickly, and stared at the speaker. He went on: "Mr.
Harkless had been five years in Plattville, and a woman's voice singing Schubert's serenade came to him at last as he stood by the pasture bars of Jones's field and listened and rested his dazzled eyes on the big, white face of the moon.
Harkless set him out of the way with one arm. "Bed be hanged!" he cried. "I'm going to Plattville!" Meredith wrung his hands. "The doctor "! "Doctor be damned!" "Will you tell me what has happened, John?"
"They had planned to," answered his friend. "They gave it up for some reason. Uncle Henry decided that he wasn't strong enough for the trip, or something." "Then is she is she here?" "No; Helen is never here in summer. When she came back from Plattville, she went north, somewhere, to join people she had promised, I think."
On Saturdays, the farmers enlivened the commercial atmosphere of Plattville; and Miss Tibbs, the postmaster's sister and clerk, used to make a point of walking up and down Main Street as often as possible, to get a thrill in the realization of some poetical expressions that haunted her pleasingly; phrases she had employed frequently in her poems for the "Carlow County Herald."
As long as he was in the well-settled part of the country he encountered no difficulties nor adventures worth recording. Plattville, as already stated, was a frontier town, and there was a large tract of almost uninhabited country between it and the nearest settlement. Late in the afternoon of the fourth day Jasper found himself standing on the bank of a river which must be crossed.
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