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He did not look quite so unhappy as usual, but he looked grave. 'You've been to Mr Rosenbaum's, he said. So we told him all about it. It took a long time, and Father sat in the armchair. It was jolly. He doesn't often come and talk to us now. He has to spend all his time thinking about his business. And when we'd told him all about it he said
Mannering, his composure now fully restored, "I do not propose to produce it until I know somewhere near what you will give for it." "My dear sir," Mr. Rosenbaum's tones became eager, "as I have already told you, if I can match this stone," placing it on the table between them, "I will pay you a small fortune; money would be no object; you could have your own price." Without further words, Mr.
She was not more than half convinced, but unhooked her dress and took a note from her bosom, which she stuck out toward Si, holding tightly on to one end in the meanwhile. Si read, in Levi Rosenbaum's flourishing, ornate handwriting: "Corporal Josiah Klegg, Co. Q, 200th Indiana Volunteers, in Camp on Duck River." "That means me," said Si, taking hold of the end of the envelope.
Glancing casually across at his neighbor, he found the dark glasses focused upon himself with such fixity that he responded with a friendly nod, and, making some trivial remark, found Mr. Mannering not at all averse to conversation. A few commonplaces were exchanged until the arrival of Mr. Rosenbaum's order, when the other remarked,
Rosenbaum remained at his post, and at last had the satisfaction of seeing the tall figure in the fur coat approaching down the dimly lighted street. He ascended the steps of 545, let himself in with a night-key, and a moment later the gas in the upper front room was turned on, showing Mr. Rosenbaum's surmise to be correct.
Anybody'd catch on to that Indianny lingo first thing. You've got to speak like an educated man speak like I do to keep people from finding out where you're from. I speak correct English always. Nobody can tell where I'm from." The boys had hard work controlling their risibles over Mr. Rosenbaum's self-complacency. "What clothes are we to wear, then?" asked Si, much puzzled.
As he came near he was anxiously scanned, and appeared a cavalier so redoubtable as to fully justify Rosenbaum's apprehensions. He was a tall, strongly-built young man, who sat on his spirited horse with easy and complete mastery of him. Even at that distance it could be seen that he was heavily armed. "Looks like a genuine fighter, and no mistake," said Si, examining the caps on his revolver.
You carry out your share of the plan, and don't worry about us." Rosenbaum's countenance brightened, and he hastened to mount and away. The boys shouldered their guns and started out for the long walk. They followed Rosenbaum's directions carefully, and arrived in sight of the house, which they recognized at once, and got into a position from which they could watch its front.
"But I concluded that there was too much Bob Smiles in that country for me, unt I had better leave for some parts where I was not likely to meet him. So I crossed the Mississippi River, unt joined General Rosecrans's Headquarters." MR. ROSENBAUM'S stories of adventure were not such as to captivate the boys with the career of a spy.
"It is very possible you have, my dear sir; I travel constantly, and for aught that I know you may have seen me in nearly every city on the globe. May I inquire your business, sir? Do you also travel?" "No," said Mr. Mannering, slowly, but apparently relieved by Mr. Rosenbaum's answer, "I am not engaged in any particular line of business at present.
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