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You'll find her in the house." Bott went to the house, leaving Saul pondering. Girls were queer cattle. Had Mattie given her word to this slab-sided, lanky fellow? Had she given Sam Sleeny the mitten for him? Perhaps she wanted the glory of being Mrs. Professor Bott. Well, she could do as she liked; but Saul swore softly to himself, "If Bott comes to live offen me, he's got to pay his board."
Pie could have closed his eyes in peace if he had seen his daughter married to so decent a man and so good a joiner as Sleeny. But the interview was short and painful to Matchin. He left his daughter in possession of the field, and went to walk by the lake shore to recover his self-possession, which had given way beneath her firm will and smiling scorn.
"Don't hit him," said Farnham. "I think I have seen this man somewhere." "Why," said Kendall, "that's Sam Sleeny, a carpenter in Dean Street. He orter be in better business." "Yes, I remember," said Farnham; "he is a Reformer. Put him with the others."
But among the jovial puddlers and brake-men that took the air there, it was well enough to have an escort so devoted and so muscular. So pretty a woman could scarcely have walked alone in Bluff Park without insulting approaches. Maud would hardly have nodded to Sleeny on Algonquin Avenue, for fear some millionaire might see it casually, and scorn them both.
But see the circumstances. You have talked about goin' for him. You have had a fight with him, and got put in jail for it, and " he was about to mention the hammer, but was afraid "I wish you would take my advice and go off for a week or so till the truth comes out. I'll lend you all the money you want. I'm flush this week." "No, Andy," said Sleeny, "nobody could be kinder than you.
At last an officer came in and said he was to come to the police justice's for the preliminary examination of Sleeny. "They have caught him, then?" he asked, with assumed eagerness and surprise. "He had not got away?" "No," the man answered curtly. They came to the court-room in a few steps. Sam was there between two policemen. As Offitt entered, he smiled and slightly nodded.
When he had concluded he was shown the hammer which had been picked up on the floor at Farnham's, and was asked, "Is that the hammer you refer to?" "Yes, that is it." These words were the signal for a terrible scene. When Sleeny saw Offitt step forward and begin to give his evidence, he leaned forward with a smile of pleased expectation upon his face.
The windows were open, as the room was in the third story, and was therefore considered absolutely safe. Sleeny got up several times and walked first to one window and then to another, casting quick but searching glances at the street and the walls. He saw that some five feet from one of the windows a tin pipe ran along the wall to the ground.
She resented being called into other society than that of her idle thoughts, and sat silent through supper, trying to keep the thread of her fancies from breaking. But she was not allowed to go back undisturbed to her fool's paradise. Sleeny, who had scarcely removed his eyes from her during the meal, rose with a start as she walked into the little sitting-room of the family, and followed her.
There's ladies there, and I ain't dressed to see company. Why, yes, this fits me like my sins," and he opened the French window, and stepped lightly to the gravel walk below, and was gone. Sleeny resumed his work, ill content with himself and his friend. "Andy is a smart fellow," he thought; "but he had no right to come snoopin' around where I was at work, jist to get points to worry Mr.
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