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The "chief engineer," who had half turned before Tom spoke, jumped to his feet as if frightened and stared blankly at Tom, who stood stark still gaping at him. "Well I'll be " began the "chief engineer." Tom was grinning all over his face. "Hello, Archer!" "Chrr-is-to-pherr Crrinkums!" said Archer, with that familiar up-state roll to his R's. "Where in all get-out did you blow in from?
Bidding a reluctant good-by to up-state romance, Mr. Magee entered the solitary day coach which, with a smoker, made up the local to Reuton. He spent a few moments adjusting Mrs. Norton to her new environment, and listened to her voluble expressions of joy in the fact that her boarding-house loomed ahead. Then he started for the smoker.
"Perhaps he came to visit his brother, not knowing he was away just now." "I thought of that too. Where is he supposed to be just now?" "Lord? Jimmy said he was up-state visiting Gottschalk, the millionaire who is backing the Aerial Mail Company." Nobody spoke for a minute or two. At length my friend rose and pushed his chair up against the table.
Cracknell and the man from up-state and so calmly remote from the feverish atmosphere in which she lived her nights that it was restful to look at him. "I landed to-night," said Bruce Carmyle, turning and faced her squarely. "To-night!" "We docked at ten." He turned away again. He had made his effect, and was content to leave her to think it over. Sally was silent.
"'Fore we could more'n ketch our breaths the chairman called for a ballot and they taken it, and General Hightower was nominated 52 to 51 Captain Stonewall J. Bugg being recorded by the secretary as absent and not voting. And while the up-state fellers was carrying on and swapping cheers with one another, our fellers sat there jest dumfoundered.
He spoke slowly then, and gravely: "Boys, I have something shocking to reveal to you; something terrible about one of our own members." Several Boosters, including Babbitt, looked disconcerted. "A knight of the grip, a trusted friend of mine, recently made a trip up-state, and in a certain town, where a certain Booster spent his boyhood, he found out something which can no longer be concealed.
Those from up-State were pasted on huge cardboards and carried in the parade by delegations from the various counties. Those from the city were placed in 62 huge ballot boxes, one for each assembly district, with the number of them on the outside, and carried by the "captains" of the districts and their helpers.
I'll tell the world it made me go good and wild," said the man from up-state, an economical soul who disliked waste and was accustomed to spread out his humorous efforts so as to give them every chance. "Why, before the second act was over, the people were beating it for the exits, and if it hadn't been for someone shouting 'Women and children first' there'd have been a panic."
I used to think maybe you'd get to putter out there in the side-yard with it, trailin' vines; the china-paintin' outfit I had sent down from Cincinnati when I seen it advertised in the Up-State Gazette; a spaniel or two from Old Cocker's new litter, barkin' around; all them things, I used to think, would give our little place here a feelin' that would change both of us for the better.
Bulletin boards in New York City showed the amendment winning in every borough and wires from up-State gave encouraging reports. The State headquarters, an entire floor of the large office building at 303 Fifth Avenue, New York, and the city headquarters were thronged with happy crowds.
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