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The two horses dashed into sight around the bushes, and were sharply pulled up on their haunches. They were ridden by Bela and Jack. At the sight of her the old wild commotion was resumed in Sam's breast. Forgetting all else, he jumped up, snatching his hand out of Musq'oosis's. "You tricked me!" he cried furiously to him. The motionless figure gave no sign. Bela turned on the native boy.
Sam's return to Wildman's was marked by extreme caution. Although he had been absent but fifteen minutes it seemed to him that hours must have passed and he would not have been surprised to see the stores locked and darkness settled down on Main Street. It was inconceivable that the grocer could still be wrapping packages for banker Walker. Worlds had been remade. Manhood had come to him.
Meanwhile Sam's position in the 200th Infantry was most unpleasant. Foster was a popular man in the regiment, and he had set all the officers against him. It was unfortunately a Slewey regiment, and it was too late for Sam to change sides a thing which he was quite ready to do. He made up his mind never to mention the two admirals again, and regretted that he had named them once too often.
This he filled with clear water from the spring, and holding it over the cotton ravellings, moved it up and down until the sunlight, passing through it, gathered itself into a small bright spot on the cotton. Joe, eager to see, thrust his head over Sam's shoulder, and directly between the glass and the sun.
The baldheaded, officious undertaker kept moving nervously about, intent upon the ritual of his trade. During the service, a man sitting behind him dropped a note on the floor at Sam's feet.
Who but Major von Piffinhoeffer had devised the very scheme of contaminating streams, which Tom and Roscoe had discovered? Who but Major von Piffinhoeffer had invented the famous "circle code" which had so long puzzled and baffled Uncle Sam's Secret Service agents?
"It's about that boy he has up there." She gave a hopeless little gesture toward the hills. "Sam Cullison?" "Yes." "What about him?" "He's bent on ruining him, always has been ever since he got a hold on him. I can't tell you how I know it, but I'm sure And now he's more set on it than ever." Curly thought he could guess why, but he wanted to make sure. "Because you are Sam's friend?"
This conversation took place on board one of Uncle Sam's warships, which the President had designated to take Tom's giant cannon to the Panama Canal. The big gun had been lashed to the deck of the vessel, and was well protected from the weather. In the hold the parts of the disappearing carriage, which Tom had at last succeeded in having made, were securely stowed.
Judge Haliburton was an early convert; and in 1837 he makes 'Sam Slick' harp again and again on the necessity of railways. 'A railroad from Halifax to the Bay of Fundy' is the burden of many of Sam's conversations, and its advantages are urged in his most racy dialect. But the world laughed at Haliburton's jokes and neglected his wisdom.
"I thought the Admiral must have given you two appointments," said Hal timidly. "He gave me ONE, for one of my sons. The first choice is Sam's right, even if he had not deserved it by his brave patient obedience." Hal hung his head; then said, "But, Papa, if Sam broke down in his examination, please mightn't I " "No, Henry.
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