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Which was a wise conclusion, in view of the fact that Edna Pumpelly, née Haskins, was much better equipped by nature to take care of Mr. Wilfred Edgerton in the hectic environs of a police court than he was qualified to take care of her. And so it was that just as Mrs.
Afterwards, these parties did what they could to establish the reality of the project, but up to date it has not been noted as a metropolis, and the floods of 1861-2 undermined its feeble strength. Another name for it was Arizona City. * Across America and Asia, by Raphael Pumpelly, p. 60.
And who was this Wells woman? Her husband never did a thing except play croquet or something at a club! He probably was a drunkard and a roo-ay. Mrs. Pumpelly soon convinced herself that Mrs. Wells also must be a very undesirable, if not hopelessly immoral lady. Anyhow, she made up her mind that she would certainly take nothing further from her. Even if Mrs.
Bonright Doon," answered Simmons encouragingly. "And he is a very pleasant-spoken young man." "Very well," yielded Mrs. Pumpelly. Two minutes later, "Mr. Doon!" announced Simmons.
"And who's William Mul-kay-hay?" she continued. "I don't know any such person! You better call up Mr. Edgerton right away and see what the law is." "I hope he knows!" countered Mr. Pumpelly. "Four miles an hour that's a joke! A baby carriage goes faster than four miles an hour. You wouldn't arrest a baby!" "Well, call him up!" directed Mrs. Pumpelly.
"Criminal attorneys are used to all that sort of rotten business." "Oh, it wouldn't do to let Pumpelly suspect we couldn't handle it ourselves. Besides, the lady wants distinguished counsel to represent her. No, for once we've got to lay dignity aside. I think I'll send Maddox up to the Criminal Courts Building and have him find out just what to do."
Yet that was what Mrs. Pumpelly proposed to have done, and unfortunately he had to do exactly what Mrs. Pumpelly said; quickly too. "Maddox," he called to a timid youth in a green eye-shade sitting in lonely grandeur in the spacious library, "just run up to the er magistrate's court on Blank Street and ascertain the proper procedure for punishing a person for obstructing the highway.
"Excuse me, madam," interposed Simmons, with whom the second footman had just held a whispered conference behind the screen, "but James informs me that there is a police hofficer awaiting to see you in the front 'all." "To see me?" ejaculated Mrs. Pumpelly. "Yes, madam." "I suppose it's about to-morrow. Tell him to call round about nine o'clock in the morning."
Wilfred Edgerton could have told Mrs. Pumpelly the "rule in Shelly's case" or explained the doctrine of cy pres, he had never read the building code or the health ordinances or the traffic regulations, and in the present instance the latter were to the point while the former were not. Thus he was confronted with the disagreeable alternative of admitting his ignorance or bluffing it through.
In his nervous condition he did not recall what, had he stopped calmly to consider the matter, he must have known very well namely, that no warrant could possibly issue unless Mrs. Pumpelly, as complainant, signed and swore to the information herself. "Very well, sir," answered Maddox, in the same tone and manner that he would have used had he been a second footman at Mrs. Pumpelly's.
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