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Updated: June 18, 2025
"You wanted to see me about some matter of interest to both of us, I believe, Mr. Terwilliger," said the earl, declining the proffered Maraschino. "Well, yes," returned Terwilliger. "More of interest to you, perhaps, than to me.
"But I say, Molly, don't you think it would be better to get her to bring the spectre over here, and have me give him the title, and then let him marry her here?" "No, I don't. If you give it to him first, the chances are he would go back on his bargain. He'd say that, being a duke, he couldn't marry a cook." "You have a large mind, Molly," said Terwilliger. "I know men!" snapped Mrs. Terwilliger.
Terwilliger is content with her Judson, whom, however, she occasionally calls Duke of Cavalcadi, claiming that he is the representative of that ancient and noble family on earth.
"The countess is in her usual state of health, Mr. Terwilliger," returned the earl. "Ain't she coming this afternoon?" "I really can't say," answered Mugley. "I asked her if she was coming, and all she did was to call for her salts. She's a little given to fainting-spells, and the slightest shock rather upsets her."
"It was a mean game of bluff," said Terwilliger. "I suppose, though, if you were the shade of a duchess, you could simply knock Bangletop silly?" "Yes, and the Baron of Peddlington too. 'E was the private secretary as said h'I 'ad the big 'ead." "H'm!" said Terwilliger, meditatively.
This Hankinson J. Terwilliger at once proceeded to do, arming himself with a pair of horse-pistols, murmuring on the way below a soft prayer, the only one he knew, and which, with singular inappropriateness on this occasion, began with the words, "Now I lay me down to sleep." "What's the matter, Judson?" queried Mrs.
'You carn't make a knight out of a woman, says the king, 'but give 'er my compliments, and tell 'er 'er monarch says as 'ow she's a cook as is too good for 'er staition." "That was very nice," said Terwilliger. "No one could have desired a higher recommendation than that."
He was a smart man here, and, if his ghost does him justice, you'll be mighty glad to know him," Terwilliger answered. And thus was Bangletop Hall delivered of its uncanny visitor.
They were afraid that something had happened, or was about to happen, in connection with the shoe corporation; and this deprived them of sleep, particularly the elder Miss Terwilliger, who had danced four times at a recent ball with an impecunious young earl, whom she suspected of having intentions.
"Don't look as if this would carry you very far. Where on earth did you get it?" "It was poor Rufe Terwilliger's." The girl answered the last question first. "I bought it from Mrs. Terwilliger for three hundred dollars. Ben Hallock has got some tires to fit it that he'll let me have and if the engine will only last for about four hundred miles I don't care what happens to it after that."
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