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Updated: July 26, 2025
Symes's emotions if his brother-in-law's removal had been complete and permanent. Over the coffee and a superior brand of cigars to which Mr. Symes called particular attention, the conversation of his guests began to contain some degree of naturalness and their painful self-consciousness gradually vanished.
As a further evidence of Symes's prodigality there was champagne in hollow-stemmed glasses brought from the East. It was a glorious feast with cold storage chicken expressed from the Main Line and potatoes freighted up from the Mormon settlement a hundred miles below.
They shut the door somewhat noisily behind them. Then, all of a sudden, Hetty opened it again, pushed in her small face, and said, "You had better be careful. His bite is dangerous!" The next instant quick feet were heard running away from Miss Symes's room, in the center of which Fanny stood stunned and really frightened. What had those awful children put into her bed?
Symes imagined that he could almost see himself growing old in the hours of suspense which followed the sending of the telegram. Symes's hand shook noticeably when he took the yellow sheet from the operator who delivered it in person. The message read: Turned down cold. Something wrong. Letter follows. Symes's towering figure seemed to crumple in the office chair.
They drank Symes's health in long, deep draughts and it was with some forebodings that Symes noted the frequency with which the same guests appeared in line. Symes had no great desire that his wedding should go down in the annals of Crowheart as the most complete drunk in its history nor was his bank account inexhaustible.
Even Symes's confident assurances that the complete failure of the Homeseekers' Excursion was relatively a small matter, could not entirely eradicate from the minds of Crowheart's merchants the picture presented by the procession of excursionists returning with their satchels to the station, glowering at Crowheart's citizens as they passed and making loud charges of misrepresentation and fraud.
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