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She welcomed him cordially; Lucinda was promptly locked out, and then the old lady and her lawyer spent a momentous hour together. Mr. Stebbins was taken into his client’s fullest confidence; he was regaled with enough of the week’s history to guess the rest; and he foresaw the outcome as he had foreseen it from the moment of the rupture.
But, I am free to say, it took a good deal of coasting before the good brother could get his craft well out to sea, and headed towards the desired haven. During the balance of the visit anecdotes were at a discount. On Monday we went forward to the Conference, that I might appear before the Committee of Examination. The Committee were Revs. Salmon Stebbins, N.P. Heath, and S. Stover.
But a few seconds later it appeared as if the son and heir of the Stebbins family had decided to take his mother's advice. The car suddenly slowed up so suddenly as to slide us out of our seats. There was a grinding of brakes, and a bump of something under the wheels; then a wild stream from the sidewalk, and a half-stifled cry from the chauffeur. Mrs.
"What's become of the lad?" "Maybe he's gone aft," cried Stebbins; "maybe " Here Tine gave a little scream, dropped her wreath and running toward the small, feeble man, threw her arms around his neck. Marny and the others bounded over the cobbles, tossing the bystanders out of the way as they forged ahead.
She had feared the minister since the time she had talked off his warts with the wizard words she had learned from a hag living on the ragged rocks. "What's this," demanded the Dominie, looking sternly at her, and she dropped her eyes in confusion. "It's Orn Skinner's girl," replied his son. "Skinner is the man who shot Stebbins to-night. You heard Deacon Hall talking about it at the cottage."
John Stebbins had to confess that he had not seen Mrs. Wilson, and indeed had been vague with the information he had left with Jane. "I told them we were with the Pentz boys," he said; "I thought it just as well to keep dark." "Mighty dark we all of us are!" said Sam, in a rage.
Stanley had believed his papers lost, until he recently heard they were in possession of a shipmate, at New Bedford. Mr. Clapp and himself had gone there, and easily obtained them again from Robert Stebbins, the man in whose hands they had been since the fire.
"What is that fine building on the hill?" asked Miss Cushman. "That," said Miss Mitchell, "was a boys' school, originally, but it is now used as a hotel, where they charge five dollars a day!" "Five dollars a day?" exclaimed Miss Cushman; "Jupiter Ammon!" "No," said Miss Stebbins, "Jupiter Mammon!" "Not at all," said Miss Mitchell, "Jupiter gammon!"
There was not a shot fired, and the movements of the Yankee sailors were so rapid that resistance was useless. "You've got the brig all to yourself again, Cap'n," said the mate. "What shall I do with these varmints?" "Send them down here," was the reply. "And tell Stebbins to send his man down also."
The old man turned his solemnly accusing green spectacles on Stebbins, and it seemed to Barney that he spoke with no less solemnly accusing a voice. "He ought never to have been let in." Stebbins replied, rather eagerly, Barney thought, "Why, there was enough against that boy to have clapped him in jail, and maybe convicted him, if this man hadn't turned State's evidence."
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