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Tillie's heart beat fast, and she found herself doubting the reality of his precious nearness after the long, dreary days of hungering for him. She dared not speak to him while Miss Spooner held forth, and, indeed, she feared even to look at him, lest curious eyes read in her face what consciously she strove to conceal. She realized his restless impatience under Miss Spooner's eloquence.
"No; and that was because neither you nor I ever knew. Spooner's alternate was Bert Dodge!" "What? Bert Dodge, of Gridley?" demanded Cadet Holmes astonished. "That very chap," Prescott admitted. "When Spooner went home, after 'fessing out' here, Bert Dodge, who hadn't appeared, was ordered by wire to report at once, or have his name stricken out.
"Not in this weather, surely," retorted Macnab, "and if I did feel coldish in the circumstances, couldn't I borrow Spooner's blanket-capote? it might fit me then, for I'd probably be a few sizes smaller." "Come, Mac," said I, "give us a song. You know I'm wildly fond of music; and, most unfortunately, not one of us three can sing a note."
Next we came upon a herd of wildebeeste, and here we allowed Bhoota, who was a wary shikari and an old servant of Spooner's, to stalk a solitary bull. He was highly pleased at this favour, and did the job admirably.
They don't either one amount to as much as the fellow I'm talking about thinks he amounts to." "Whom did our Senators appoint to the Academy?" asked Prescott after a pause. "Me," admitted Greg, again turning red. "Well, whom did the other Senator appoint!" "Who was Spooner's alternate!" persisted Dick. "I don't believe I remember," Greg replied slowly.
Patience promised a speedy return, and, making her way to the gate, crossed the road to Miss Spooner's abode. She was hardly out of sight when the nose of a wager boat was driven up against the bank, and there was Ralph Newton, sitting in a blue Jersey shirt, with a straw hat and the perspiration running from his handsome brow.
Spooner's, and that minister ate so unmercifully of everything upon the table, that I then and there resolved that I would eat but one kind of meat at a meal, and I think my good health is due in a measure to that resolution." I made no resolution, but the circumstance produced an impression upon me, and in the main I have observed his rule.
"I am going across to Miss Spooner's," she said; "will you come?" But Clarissa was idle, and making some little joke, not very much to the honour of Miss Spooner, declared that she was hot and tired, and had a headache, and would stay at home. "Don't be long, Patty," she said; "it is such a bore to be alone."
Well, just afore the train started ag'in, who should come into the car but Bill Woodson, and he wuz lookin' powerful tough. Bill herded cattle for me three winters, but hed moved away when he married one uv the waiter-girls at Spooner's Hotel at Hoost'n. "Hello, Bill," says I; "what air you totin' so kind uv keerful-like in your arms there?"
He had not the honour of Andrew Spooner's acquaintance, and he had reason to believe that all men in the foothills were devoid of fear. "Fetch Pap," said he, in the same tone as he might have said, "Fetch milk and water!" We made no remark. "I think," said the doctor, gravely, "that if this man comes at once the child may pull through." "By Heaven! he shall come," said George Leadham to me.
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