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Halbert, have you nothing to say? are you to go with us? the three-seated wagon will hold us all." "Yes," added mother, "and we will take our dinner and go to cousin Belinda Sprague's to eat it." Then said Ben, "Let me go, father, I'm young and I need starting right; don't you think so?"
I cannot claim that the fact at the time had any significance for me, or that I saw in it anything more than another verification of Martin Sprague's solution. But it enabled me to reconstruct the Benton household at the date that had grown so significant. The 30th would have probably been the day after the funeral. Perhaps the nurse was still there.
How she hoped to secure Sprague's silence we can only guess at. Probably she meant to buy it with the remainder of the $10,000 she had already got from Miles provided Sprague did not kill her for ditching him as a lover. We know she foresaw that possibility, since she willed the money to Lydia.
He was remembering the belated confidence that John C. Drake, banker, had made to him the morning before after the discovery of Dexter Sprague's murder.
"Here's a telegram a telegram from our candidate. He is nominated! Mr. Shelby is nominated. Think of it! One of our members! And he has wired the good news to us first of all!" She searched vainly for her glasses her big blue eyes were astigmatic and finally, with an impatient "You read it to them all," thrust the message into Volney Sprague's reluctant fingers.
Yet, when Kit arrived at the tent of Messrs. Sprague and Stine, he did not find them stirring. By a fire, under the shelter of a tarpaulin, squatted a short, thick man smoking a brown-paper cigarette. "Hello," he said. "Are you Mister Sprague's new man?"
The right hand, the fingers curled but not touching each other, lay palm-upward on the floor at the end of the rigid, outstretched arm. The one visible eye was half open, but on the sallow, thin face, which had been strikingly handsome in an obvious sort of way, was a peace and dignity which Dundee had never seen upon Sprague's face when the man was alive.
Volney Sprague's flaming posters in black and red menaced Shelby from the selvage of the district to the threshold of his door.
He said he'd gone to the hall closet, where Whitson, the butler, would have put Sprague's hat and stick, and that he had found they were gone.... Well and you needn't put down 'well' every time I say it!" Penny interrupted herself tartly.
He had studied law with the late Senator Sprague, and, at his death, from partner succeeded to his lucrative law practice. He came at once to Washington at Mrs. Sprague's summons, and set about learning the status of the case.
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