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"Rollins again," thought Chester. "Why did he keep this from me?" "Who were in the carriage?" he asked. "Mr. Sutton, sir, on the front seat, driving, and two young ladies on the back seat." "Nobody else?" "Not a soul, sir. I could see in it plain as day. One lady was Miss Sutton, and the other Miss Beaubien.
He knew too that it was the old homestead they came to see, and to find out what that poolroom man was doing in his back yard, and why Hen Tomlins had been coming up so regularly, and why Bernard Rollins had been asking to see people's old albums for the past three months. So Cynthia's son had no programme. He just threw open every door and invited them to walk through and look.
Mr. Rollins, for whom, naturally, Arnold's revolt meant unwonted freedom, was for the most part invisible, "seeing the sights of La Chance, I suppose," conjectured Aunt Victoria indifferently, in her deliciously modulated voice, when asked what had become of the sandy-haired tutor. And because, in the intense retirement and rustication of this period, Mrs.
His reputation as a lawyer had preceded his entrance into the Senate, where he was at once accorded high rank among his political friends. John R. McPherson, a business man of good repute in New Jersey, succeeded Mr. Frelinghuysen. Edward R. Rollins of New Hampshire, who had creditably served six years in the House, now came to the Senate as the successor of Aaron H. Cragin.
However did you know it, sir?" and he once more faced the sneering farmer. "I'll tell you, Jo," continued Mr. Rollins, coldly, "I happen to have just had three thousand dollars in bills stolen from my house this very night, by some rascal who first of all set fire to my stable and barn, so that the missus and me'd be so taken up with saving our pet stock we'd leave the farmhouse unguarded.
Jones gave me a wink and drove away. Our agreement was this first, that he and Mr. Rollins, the owner of the other team, should be paid in full before night; and second, that Mrs. Jones should furnish us our dinner, in which the chief dish should be a pot-pie from the rabbit caught by Merton, and that Mr. Jones should bring everything over at one o'clock.
"Whut-all is you mumblin'?" demands Gumbo Rollins, puzzled by these seemingly unrelated and irrelevant mouthings. "Is you crazy?" "Yas," concurs Jeff, "crazy lak the king of the weazels." "So this here head brakeman, the same being a large, coarse, hairy, rectangular person with a square-toed jaw and a square-jawed toe, he up and boots the two of us right off this here freight train."
Rollins, but they did make a very comfortable bed," she said, walking over to him. Her cheeks were flushed and her eyes were gleaming. "You are going to Eagle Nest to-day?" "Just as soon as I can get a conveyance. There is a stage-coach at nine, Miss Dering." "We will have room for you on our break," she said simply. Her eyes met his bravely and then wavered. Rossiter's heart gave a mighty leap.
Luckily Jo had taken Squire McGregor along, who happened to know one of the members of the big law firm; for otherwise the heir might have had some trouble in proving his identity, since he had forgotten to carry even the letter in his pocket, it seemed. But of course after that Mr. Rollins could not say a word about claiming the tempting display of greenbacks that lay exposed upon the table.
Dan, in the meantime, had been busy, and had induced Midshipman Rollins, of the fourth class, to act with him as second. Rollins, indeed, needed little urging. He was eager to see the fight. Tyson, of the second class, was secured as referee, while Trotter, of the third class, gladly agreed to act as time-keeper.
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