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Between Powell and Newell came, as Director of the Geological Survey, Charles D. Walcott, who, after the Reclamation Act was passed, by his force, pertinacity, and tact, succeeded in putting the act into effect in the best possible manner. Senator Francis G. Newlands, of Nevada, fought hard for the cause of reclamation in Congress.
"Conventionality, I believe, would require that it be placed on your hand with a kiss and some appropriate bit of sentiment, but since that sort of thing is tabooed between us, we will have to dispense with that part of the ceremony." Then turning to Mr. Underwood, who stood looking on frowningly, somewhat troubled by the turn matters had taken, Walcott added, playfully,
The first of these Commissions was the Commission on the Organization of Government Scientific Work, whose Chairman was Charles D. Walcott.
The words had the rising inflection of a question. "No," Kate replied, slowly; "I do not know you; but I know that this is not your first call at The Pines." "I called some ten days since to see you." "You called," Kate spoke deliberately, "more than a year since to see Mr. Walcott." The woman started and drew back slightly. "How could you know?" she exclaimed; "surely he did not tell you!"
As he swung the door open for an instant Kate had a glimpse of a woman on the rear seat, dressed in black and heavily veiled. As the man closed the door Walcott stepped to the window for a word or two, then turned towards the house, and the carriage rolled rapidly down the driveway.
"Still, a half-interest seems pretty large for a man with no more capital in the business than he has," said Darrell, determined to make no personal reference to Walcott. "He has put in fifty thousand additional since he came in," Mr. Underwood replied. Darrell whistled softly. "Oh, he has money all right; I'm satisfied of that.
The light and buoyant spirits of Edward Walcott and Ellen rose higher as they rode on; and their way was enlivened, wherever its roughness did not forbid, by their conversation and pleasant laughter. But at length Ellen drew her bridle, as they emerged from a thick portion of the forest, just at the foot of a steep hill. "We must have ridden far," she observed, "farther than I thought.
Walcott tells of a riotous assault by the townsfolk on the pretence of a right of entrance by day or night for the ministration of the Viaticum, an oratory was built, by agreement between the monks and the parishioners, "in angulo navis," for the Reserved Sacrament, and the small door was inserted in the west front.
He had been seated thus for only a few minutes, when his wife said, in a fretful voice, "More trouble again." "What's the matter now?" asked Mr. Walcott, almost starting. "John has been sent home from school." "What!" Mr. Walcott partly arose from his chair. "He's been suspended for bad conduct." "O dear!" groaned Mr. Walcott "Where is he?" "Up in his room.
About a fortnight later they went abroad, rather in a hurry; and for some time I heard nothing more of them. Then I went to Aix-les-Bains, and came on the scene just after a frightful row. It seems that a French admirer of hers had followed her to Aix, and attacked Walcott, and even struck him in the hotel gardens.
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