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Updated: July 8, 2025
School-teaching!" "Not at all," returned General Trednoke. "She entered a dry-goods store." "Entered a dry-goods store! Well, there's nothing so extraordinary in that. I've seen quantities of women do it, of all ages, colors, and degrees. What did she buy there?" "Oh, a fiddlestick!" exclaimed the general. "Why don't you keep quiet and listen to my story?
"Possibly," the professor suggested, "the place where the treasure is hidden is the place whence the water is to flow out; and the water is the treasure." "Seriously, do you suppose that such a phenomenon as the return of an inland sea is physically practicable?" asked Trednoke. "No phenomenon, in this part of the world, would surprise me," returned Meschines.
Freeman smiled superior upon his retreat, and then, producing a cigar-case, proceeded to light up with the professor. In this fragrant and friendly cloud we will leave them, and return for a few minutes to the house of General Trednoke. It will be remembered that something was said of Grace being privy to the nocturnal advances of Senor de Mendoza.
"I think I have already guessed what it may be, Mr. Freeman," returned the general, gravely. "Old people have eyes, and hearts too, as well as young ones." "Come, Trednoke," interposed the professor, with a chuckle, "your eyes might not have seen so much, if I hadn't held the lantern." "I love your daughter, and I told her so yesterday morning," went on Freeman, after a pause.
"Why, you seem to have given this thing a good deal of thought, Trednoke." "Well, yes: it has been my hobby for a year past; and I have made some investigations myself. But this is the first time I have spoken of it to any one." "I understand. And what of the investigations?" "I can say that I found enough to interest me. I'll tell you about it some time.
"After all," interrupted Meschines, "you found your way to the spot from which the waters broke forth, and may fairly be entitled to the credit of the discovery. Eh, Trednoke? At any rate, we found nothing. Yes, I think they'll have to admit you to partnership, Harvey: and Miriam too, who, by the way, seems to be the only one who actually penetrated into this cave you speak of.
I say, she went into a great dry-goods store in New York, as sales-woman." "Bless my soul! You don't mean a shop-girl?" "That's what I said, isn't it? And why not?" "Oh, well! but, shade of Susan Brown! Ichabod! what is the feminine of Ichabod, by the way, Trednoke? But, seriously, it's too bad. Susan may have been fickle, but she was always aristocratic. And now her daughter is a shop-girl.
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