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Barker be for him? Could there be a greater contrast to his own nature? And yet he felt that he would like to observe Mr. Barker. He felt drawn to him without knowing why, and he had a presentiment that the American would drag him out of his quiet life into a very different existence. Mr. Barker, on the other hand, possessed the showman's instinct.
"Such is youth and enthusiasm," mused the showman, passing on out of the cook tent, once more to go over his arrangements, for there were many details to be looked after on this the first day of the show's season on the road. Phil called on Mrs. Sparling after breakfast, receiving from the showman's wife a most hospitable welcome.
As for First Selectman Sproul, hot in his fight with Reeves for official supremacy, his league with Hiram, after an initial combat to try spurs, was instant and cordial as soon as he had understood a few things about the showman's character and purpose. "Birds of a feather!" gritted Reeves, in his confidences with his intimates.
His reception was an enthusiastic one, cheers and shouts rent the air, and tears filled the showman's eyes as he thought of this triumphant conclusion of his four years' struggle.
While the storm-stead show was in the vicinity the villages suffered from an invasion of these dogs. Nothing told more truly the dreadful tale of the showman's life in winter. Sam'l Mann's was a big show, and half a dozen smaller ones, most of which were familiar to us, crawled in its wake. Others heard of its whereabouts and came in from distant parts.
There was no little talk in Sidmouth when, on the following Sunday, the showman's grandchild appeared in Mrs. Walsham's pew in church, and it became known that she had become an inmate of her house. It was generally considered that Mrs. Walsham had let herself down greatly by taking the showman's grandchild, and one or two of the mothers of her pupils talked about taking them away.
Even Bob Standish would have to hide his amusement; why, Bob himself had made society and success his fetiches. And Anna Anna who was so ambitious for him how could she endure the status of a cheap showman's wife? And even if she had been willing to ally himself with such a business, how could he conceivably make ten thousand dollars out of it in a single year? Ten?
"I know him!" stated Farr. Citizen Drew's air betrayed a bit of a showman's disappointment. "I never saw him before never heard of him. But I mean I know him now after your description know his nature, his thoughts. You have a fine touch in your size-ups, Citizen Drew." "I've studied 'em all." "What has he done in politics?" "Never a thing. He is one of the kind I was complaining about.
And then with how fresh a feeling must he return, at intervals, to his own peculiar home! "I would I were assured of as happy a life as his," thought I. Though the showman's wagon might have accommodated fifteen or twenty spectators, it now contained only himself and me, and a third person at whom I threw a glance on entering.
So now these two clinched and battled with it till the best man won. The showman's look gave way before the stark courage of the other. His was no match for the inscrutable, unwavering eye that commanded him. His fingers began to twitch, edged slowly toward his waist. For an instant they fumbled at the buckle of the belt, which presently fell with a rattle to the floor.
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