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His jaw fell, and his open mouth might have betokened a being smit to imbecility; and, haply, he might be, for Helen had written him from Plattville, pledging his honor to secrecy with the first words, and it was by her command that he had found excuses for not supplying his patient with all the papers which happened to contain references to the change of date for the Plattville convention.
Fitch one day, as our hero entered his counting-room, "how would you like a little journey?" Jasper's eyes brightened. "I would like nothing better," he answered, promptly. "So I supposed. Young men of your age generally like to travel." "To what place do you wish me to go, may I ask, sir?" "To Kansas a small town named Plattville." "Very well, sir, I will go."
"But your father surely he couldn't have been lying there all this time?" observed Frank, wondering how the news could have been wired or phoned over to Plattville if this were so. "Oh! no; Mr. Willoughby happened to drop over to ask dad something, and when they couldn't get any answer, he broke in the door of father's den.
Plattville was instantly alert to the stranger's presence, and interesting conjectures were hazarded all day long at the back door of Martin's Dry-Goods Emporium, where all the clerks from the stores around the Square came to play checkers or look on at the game. Upon inquiry, he had informed Judd Bennett, the driver of the omnibus, that he had come to stay.
Meredith had as yet no inkling or suspicion that his adopted cousin had returned to Plattville. What he told Harkless was what his aunt had told him, and he accepted it as the truth. Mrs. Some day the unkind girl-errant would "return to her wisdom and her duty"; meanwhile, the less known about it the better.
Bending over the cot, he said in a pleasant, soft voice: "It's all right, old man; it's all right. Slattery wants to know what you did with that man down at Plattville, when you got through with him. He can't remember, and he thinks there was money left on him. Slattery's head was hurt he can't remember. He'll go shares with you, when he gets it.
"The men stopped just long enough to hear how it was, and started for the Cross-Roads; but the Cross-Roads people caught them in an ambush and not many of our folks got back. "We really never did get even with them, though all the early settlers lived and died still expecting to see the day when Plattville would go over and pay off the score.
If I return to Plattville I shall surely remember to tell Miss Briscoe." At this she surprised him with a sudden, clear look in the eyes, so reproachful, so deep, so sad, that he started. She sank into a chair, with the look of the girl who had stood by the blue tent-pole.
Presently the "Herald" announced a news connection with Rouen, and with that, and the aid of "patent insides," began an era of three issues a week, appearing on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. The Plattville Brass Band serenaded the editor. During the second month of the new regime of the "Herald," the working force of the paper received an addition.
He had wakened suddenly; the skies had been sapphire, the sward emerald, Plattville a Camelot of romance; to be there, enchantment and now, like a meteor burned out in a breath, the necromancy fell away and he gazed into desolate years. The thought of the Square, his dusty office, the bleak length of Main Street, as they should appear to-morrow, gave him a faint physical sickness.
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