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But I'm only beginning to realise what it feels like to be a marked man." "I hear you intend to make Radville your permanent residence, Mr. Duncan?" "It's part of the system," he said obscurely. "It may prove a life sentence." "Don't you think you'll like it here?" "Oh, I'm strong for Radville," he declared earnestly. "It's all to the merry ... I beg your pardon."
"Yes, I do," said the young man apologetically. "I don't think you'll find me in the way. I shall be very quiet and unobtrusive. I'm a student, looking for a quiet place in which to pursue my studies." "Well," said Will, "you've found it all right. There ain't no quieter place in Pennsylvany than Radville, Mr. Duncan. I hope you'll like it," he said, sarcastic.
"Are you in a hurry?" Duncan paused, smiling nervously. "Oh, no only I mustn't press it, you know just say it and get right I mean I don't want to take up your valuable time, sir." Graham chuckled. "Guess the folks haven't been talking much to you about me," he suggested. "You seem to have a higher opinion of the value of my time than anybody else in Radville." "Yes, but that is to say "
The trouble is that people will say you've thrown her over there isn't anyone in Radville who hasn't heard the news by this time; and that's going to make the girl feel pretty cheap. But only for a while: she'll get over it and solace herself with the next best thing.... And don't forget; you lose a fortune." "No, I don't," Duncan disclaimed. "I never had it and now I don't want it."
And I came here with a mind coloured with rosy anticipations of real old-fashioned country cooking. It's an outrage!" "Look here," said I: "why not come home with me for dinner? I'll be glad to have you, and Miss Carpenter won't mind your coming, I'm sure." He got up with alacrity. "Those are the first human words I've heard in Radville, sir! I accept with joy and gratitude. Come lead me to it!"
But Radville folks are poor, many of them, many who are very dear to me for old sake's sake. There's Sam Graham.... Though I wouldn't have you understand that as a community we are not moderately prosperous and contented, comfortable if not energetic and advanced. This is not a pushing town: it has never known a boom. That I'm sure will some day come, but I hope not in my time.
At five-forty-five the evening train lurched in, bearing The Mysterious Stranger. Tracey Tanner saw him first, having driven down to the station with his father's surrey on the off-chance of picking up a quarter or so from some drummer wishing to be conveyed to the Bigelow House. Only outlanders pay money for hacks in Radville; everybody else walks, of course.
Duncan ought to know; he has slept in one of them, or tried to; a trial thus far to me denied. From what he has said, however, I shudder to think what will become of me should I ever lose the shelter of Miss Carpenter's second-story front and be thrown out into a heartless world to choose between the Bigelow House and Frank Tannehill's Radville Inn....
"At your service, sir," he replied, and waited grimly perhaps not unsuspicious of the nature of his visitor's errand, since he could not have been ignorant of his place in Radville. Duncan had his own way of getting at things generally more circuitous than now, though he struck on a tangent sufficiently acute momentarily to puzzle Bohun.
Pete Willing is the best-natured man in the world, as a general rule; drunk or sober, Radville tolerates him for just that quality. It is in the latter instance that he rises magnificently to the dignity of his position. The majesty of the law in his hands becomes at once a bludgeon and a pandemonium.
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