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Along the Third Street side were a Western Union Telegraph Office, the Blue Delft Candy Shop, Shotwell's Stationery Shop, and the Babbitt-Thompson Realty Company. Babbitt could have entered his office from the street, as customers did, but it made him feel an insider to go through the corridor of the building and enter by the back door. Thus he was greeted by the villagers.
John would sing; Shotwell would lie back on the pine-needles with his eyes shut, and each time the singer reached the refrain, "Mary, Mary, queen of my soul," the impassioned listener would fetch a whoop and cry, "That's her!" although everybody had known that for years the only "her" who had queened it over Shotwell's soul was John's own Fannie Halliday.
"You'll have whatever I give, sir!" Three or four men half rose, smiling excitedly, but sank down again. "You think, sir," insisted John, to the Englishman's calmly averted face, "that being in a free country " he dashed off Shotwell's remonstrant hand. "'Tain't a free country at all," said the Briton to the outer landscape. "There's hardly a corner in Europe but's freer."
He fo'gets that by a wise p'ovision o' that Gov'ment's foundehs it's got sev'l ahms, an' one holds down anotheh. The S'preme Cote Judge March, you go in an' see him; you jest the man to do it, seh!" John waited without. Presently father and son were seen to leave Captain Shotwell's headquarters and cross the square to the Courier office.
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