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Updated: June 14, 2025
It was only the vigorous determination of this gentleman, who very generously permitted me to share the only motor at the station, that I got through the gates alive! I beg your pardon, but what is your name?" "Mrs. Bashford," I interposed, "my friend, Mr. Searles." "Mr. Searles!" cried Alice, dropping a cage containing some weird Oriental bird which had been among my aunt's impedimenta.
Searles believed that absolute freedom should be given to women to do anything they wished to do in the world, provided they could do it as well as men, and that nobody had any right to assert they should not. Colonel Harris, even for a business man, was also advanced in his ideas.
The morning mail brought a letter from Searles acknowledging my congratulations on his play. While my enthusiastic praise pleased him, he was very scornful of my suggestions about available stars, and seemed even more depressed than when he talked to me. "It's impossible for me to plan other work. 'Lady Larkspur' ate the soul out of me. I'm done; finished, clean out of the running.
Two other companies, of the same strength, he sent into the woods, "being all very stout soldiers and well-armed," giving them orders to bring in prisoners to hold to ransom. A third company was sent to sea under a Captain Searles to capture a Spanish galleon which had left the port, laden with gold and silver and the jewels of the churches, a day or two before.
Probably fear helped him as much as agility, for he kept well ahead of the rout, leaped a low fence at the bottom of the hill, scurried across a little valley and came floundering up the soft soil of the railroad embankment, scrambling toward the little group of engineers. "It's Dominick," said Searles. "There seems to be a little more work cut out for you in your side line of philanthropist."
He's a member of Congress, you know, and all that; and Mrs. Florence is quite proud of having Rose in her school. "Berry Searles is so funny!" she continued. "His mother is a horrid old thing, and always interfering with him.
Searles, who had hastily followed, touched him on the shoulder and said. "Here, Colonel Harris, is a telegram for you." Harris quickly tore it open. It was from Wilson, his manager, and it read as follows: Harrisville, June 9, 18 . Colonel Reuben Harris, Steamer Majestic, New York. Our four thousand men struck this morning for higher wages. What shall we do? B.C. Wilson.
They have called here after the departure of every fresh tenant, and it was all that I could do to answer their persistent inquiries. It is to them and not to Mr. Searles I feel bound to report the apparition seen by Mrs. Packard." "To them!" I ejaculated in amazement. "Why to them? They no longer have a proprietary interest in the house."
Employees still out. Mills guarded. Will hire new men. Searles visits Australia. All well. Enjoy yourselves. Love. Reuben Harris. "It's too bad that father and Gertrude couldn't be with us," said Mrs. Harris. The lunch ashore of Irish chops, new vegetables, and fruit was a decided improvement on the food of the last few days.
Not satisfied with this, I telephoned a telegram to the agent at Barton for transmission to Searles at the Ohio address he had given me. The next day passed without incident, and on the second, hearing nothing from Torrence, I began to doubt Mrs. Bashford's proximity.
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