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Thereafter I took to spying upon him from some distance behind. We trotted and walked, trotted and walked the long miles. Arizona miles were twice as long as ordinary properly measured miles. An event of the afternoon was to meet some Mexican sheepherders, driving a flock south. Nielsen got some fresh mutton from them. Toward sunset I caught Romer hanging over his saddle. Then I rode up to him.
From the Goethe house, one drives by the Goethe monument to the Romer, the famous town-hall of the old free imperial city which Frankfort once was; and by this route the Marches drove to it, agreeing with their coachman that he was to keep as much in the sun as possible.
They were all unfortunate gentlemen, who managed to fight on the wrong side, and got their estates confiscated and their families left destitute." Romer paused for a moment, but kept his eyes fixed on Gusher. Still there was no change in his countenance.
"You have done me a great service, Mrs. Romer, and I am infinitely obliged to you," he said, and then went his way to find Vera. He was not jealous; but there was a certain uneasiness in his mind.
Hot sun in the open, cool wind in the shade, dry smells of the forest, green and red and orange and purple of the foliage these rendered the hours pleasant for me. When I reached camp I found Romer in trouble. He had cut his hand with a forbidden hunting knife. As he told me about it his face was a study and his explanation was astounding.
For them there was no rest till this great disgrace should be wiped out and atoned for. Men they were of that calibre, that the slightest reflection on them of such a stigma seemed to themselves to blacken their own character. They could not break bread with satisfaction till Mr Romer was recalled. He was recalled, and of course ruined and the minds of those just men were then at peace.
As the right-hand branch appeared to be larger and more attractive we followed its course. Soon the bustle of camp life and the sound of the horses were left far behind. Romer slipped along beside me stealthily as an Indian, all eyes and ears. We had not traveled thus for a quarter of a mile when my quick ear caught the cluck-cluck of turkeys. "Listen," I whispered, halting.
The unexpected meeting between Romer and Gusher threw a shadow over the entertainment, so far as it affected the latter. Here he had been for weeks sounding the trumpet of Mrs. Chapman's ball, and looking forward to it as the means of making a temple of triumph of himself, and captivating no end of female hearts, Mattie's included; but how sadly he was disappointed.
The young gentlemen who had been so merry but a few minutes before, now put down their glasses and listened with intense interest to the conversation. You shall know zat I meets ze grand rascal on Broadway a few days ago " "You met him in New York, eh?" resumed Romer, affecting great surprise.
Gusher took the card, and after affecting to read the name placed it in his pocket, without exhibiting the slightest change of countenance. "You shall zee I shall do myself ze 'onar of being your diplomat," said he, bowing himself formally out of the room. "Romer, old fellow, what's up?" enquired one of the young men. "A spoon, ain't he, Romer?" "Not so much of a spoon, I take it," said another.
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