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Nick's detective in San Francisco had no news; at all events no news with which he could be induced to part. "Wait a few days longer," he said. "That's the only favour I ask. Maybe by that time we shall both know where the poison-oak came from, who posted the box, who sent it, and why, and all the rest there is to know." "Haven't you any suspicions yet?" Nick asked impatiently.
All here send their best love to you, and I pray that every happiness may attend you. "Your devoted father, "R. E. Lee. "Robert E. Lee." "Bertus" was a contraction of Robertus, my father's pet name for me as a child. My afflictions were "poison-oak," chills, and fever. The letter to my brother Fitzhugh, here referred to, I also give: "Near Cartersville, Cumberland County, Virginia, July 29, 1865.
"'Oh, said Eunice, 'we must send for some oil and vinegar! This lettuce is very nice." "'Oil and vinegar? exclaimed Abel. "'Why, yes, said she, innocently: 'they are both vegetable substances. "Abel at first looked rather foolish, but quickly recovering himself, said, "'All vegetable substances are not proper for food: you would not taste the poison-oak, or sit under the upas-tree of Java.
Three things are never found at Glen Alpine. These are poison-oak, rattlesnakes and poisonous insects. The rowdy, gambling and carousing element are equally absent, for should they ever appear, they speedily discover their lack of harmony and voluntarily retire.
'Oh, Laura! remonstrated Margery, 'think of that lovely pool with the forests of maiden-hair growing all about it! 'And poison-oak, grumbled Laura. 'I know I walked into some of it and shall look like a perfect fright for a week. I shall never make a country girl it's no use for me to try. 'It's no use for you to try walking four miles in high-heeled shoes, my dear, said Polly, bluntly.
Gaylor's being called suddenly away from home; that Carmen had never answered a short letter she wrote; all these things roused her suspicions. Indeed, she had even gone so far as to associate the box of poison-oak leaves with Mrs. Gaylor; and now the thought that the Spanish woman might have followed her to Tahoe sent a shiver through her veins. Who could the lady be, if not Carmen Gaylor?
'He has gone all through this for me, and written nice little remarks on the margin, explanations and things, and interrogations where he thinks I won't know what is meant and had better find out, bless his heart! What have you brought, Margery? By the way, you must move your seat away from that clump of poison-oak bushes; we can't afford to have any accidents which will interfere with our fun.
The banks were fringed with graceful alders and poison-oak bushes, vivid in crimson and yellow leaves, while delicate maiden-hair ferns grew in miniature forests between the crevices of the rocks; yet, with the practicality of Chinese human nature, Hop Yet used all this beauty for a dish-pan and refrigerator!
The plant is common in our gardens, but their medicinal powers are much weaker than in those from abroad. RHODODENDRON Chrysanthemum. YELLOW-FLOWERED RHODODENDRON. See No. 290. RHUS Toxicodendron. POISON-OAK. Leaves. L. E. Of considerable use in paralytic affections, and is much used in the present day.
Loyal as he was by nature, and as he had shown himself to Wisler, modest as to his own deserts, and slow to fancy himself valued by any woman, he could not now help seeing, as Wisler had seen the one motive which could have tempted Carmen Gaylor to send Angela May a box of poison-oak.
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