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"I suppose," he added half-questioningly, "there ain't no chance of a mistake. This address is Rightbody, that rich old Bostonian that everybody knows. There ain't but one?" "That's the address," responded the first speaker coolly. "Didn't know the old chap had investments out here," suggested the operator, lingering at his instrument. "No more did I," was the insufficient reply.
Howbeit, Miss Alice, returning home that afternoon, found her mother with a violent headache. "We will leave here by the next steamer," said Mrs. Rightbody languidly. "Mr. Ryder has promised to accompany us." "But, mother " "The climate, Alice, is over-rated. My nerves are already suffering from it. The associations are unfit for you, and Mr. Marvin is naturally impatient."
Have you forgotten?" The young lady had NOT, but, for some far-reaching feminine reason, chose to ignore it at that moment, when her late tumble in the snow was still fresh in her mind. "And this woman, whoever she may be " continued Mrs. Rightbody. "How do you know there's a woman in the case?" interrupted Miss Alice, wickedly I fear. "How do I know there's a woman?" slowly ejaculated Mrs.
Rightbody, with feminine adroitness, adopting her husband's topic with a view of thereby directing him from it, "I'm afraid that people do not yet appreciate the substitution of bouillon for punch and ices. I observed that Mr. Spondee declined it, and, I fancied, looked disappointed. The fibrine and wheat in liqueur-glasses passed quite unnoticed too."
Marvin IS," interrupted Miss Alice; "and he has promised me that I shall be allowed to go on with my studies the same as before. I shall graduate with my class; and, if I prefer to practise my profession, I can do so in two years after our marriage." "In two years?" queried Mr. Rightbody curiously. "Yes. You see, in case we should have a child, that would give me time enough to wean it." Mr.
Rightbody, was explained by the good-humored Ryder from the circumstance that the usual hotel was only a slight affair of boards, cloth, and paper, put up during the season, and partly dismantled in the fall. "You couldn't be kept warm enough there," he added. Nevertheless Miss Alice noticed that both Mr.
An advertisement in any of the Sacramento papers, or a playcard or handbill stuck unto a tree near Deadwood, saying that Seventy-Four or Seventy-Five will communicate with this yer principal or agent of yours, will fetch us allers." Mrs. Rightbody, a little alarmed and desperate, saw her blunder. "I mean nothing of the kind," she said hastily.
"I presume you are, if you say so." "That's all, ma'am. Thank you!" Before the girl had time to reply, he was gone. When he again returned, it was with her horse, and Mrs. Rightbody and Ryder were awaiting her. But Miss Alice noticed that his own horse was missing. "Are you not going with us?" she asked. "No, ma'am." "Oh, indeed!"
"I see. Then Mr. Silsbie ENTICED her away?" "Well, ma'am, it WAS allowed as she runned away. But it wasn't proved, and it generally wasn't her style." Mrs. Rightbody trifled with her next question. "She was pretty, of course?" The eyes of both men brightened. "She was THAT!" said Seventy-Four emphatically. "It would have done you good to see her!" added Seventy-Five. Mrs.
Ryder will assist me to find them." "Mr. Ryder!" ejaculated Miss Alice, in scornful astonishment. "Alice," said Mrs. Rightbody, with a suspicious assumption of sudden defence, "you injure yourself, you injure me, by this exclusive attitude. Mr. Ryder is a friend of your father's, an exceedingly well-informed gentleman. I have not, of course, imparted to him the extent of my suspicions.
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