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One day, when a meeting was in session by the roadside, near "One-eyed Lewston's" cabin or the Akeville telegraph station, as I should say George and Harry had a slight dispute, and Purvis took occasion to give vent to some of his dissatisfaction. "I don't see what you're President for, anyway," said he to Harry.
Haines, Purvis, and Kilduff were instantly at the car, taking the ponderous little canvas sacks of coin as their chief handed them out. Within two minutes after the explosion ten small sacks were deposited in the saddlebags on the horses which stood before the station-house.
He found that Toffy and Ross were still enjoying their afternoon siesta. There was not a bit of shade anywhere, and the heat seemed to burn through the roof until the very floor was hot to walk upon. His thoughts went back to Purvis in his tweed clothes and the bowler bat with the pugaree on it, and he wondered how he fared in the scorching heat.
'No, I suppose it does not, and he added, in a heavy voice, 'I believe Toffy would like me to look after the boy. It may be a fraud yet, he said truculently, 'and it will require investigation. 'I know my mother's writing, said Peter, 'and Purvis was in the act of trying to burn the box before we took him off the steamer.
This gentleman is a surgeon-dentist by profession, educated at Oberlin College, making his home in Columbus. Robert Purvis, Esq., a gentleman of collegiate education, is proprietor of one of the best improved farms in Philadelphia county, fifteen miles from Philadelphia. His cattle consist of the finest English breed.
The commissario drank his coffee, and Dunbar waited restlessly for his telegram. After breakfast he and Peter slept for a time, for both were dog-tired, and the day was oppressively hot. In the afternoon a telegram came to say that no news had been heard of Purvis, and that he was believed to be still in the neighbourhood of La Dorada.
But I believe a ship with a high side and yards and top hamper would be blown down on her beam ends and kept there." "Do you think that it blows as hard as it did, Purvis?" "There ain't much difference, sir; but I do think there ain't quite so much weight in it. I expect we are working our way out of it. We have been twice round the compass.
The centres of disturbance were noncommissioned officers who, seated, growled and wrote down names. "Come to my table," said Burgard. "Well, Purvis, have you ear-marked our little lot?" "I've been tellin' 'em for the last hour we've only twenty-three vacancies," was the sergeant's answer. "I've taken nearly fifty for Trials, and this is what's left." Burgard smiled.
Sims was still deceived. "Well, Ned!" he began heartily, with a struggle to rise from his chair then he saw the collar and tie of the Rev. Mr. Purvis, and the full horror of the thing dawned upon him. Nor did the three gin cocktails, which Mr. Sims had had stationed ready for the reunion, greatly help its geniality. Yet it had been a maxim, in the recollections of Mr.
"But I'm in hopes I've done a bit, I think, towards it with Mr. Rubinstein's help, though he doesn't quite understand my methods. But you, gentlemen I came in to hear if you'd anything to tell about Guyler. What did he think about what John Purvis had to tell us this afternoon?" "He wasn't surprised," answered Purdie.
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