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Updated: May 28, 2025
One April evening, after a stroll with Eda, Janet reached home about nine o'clock to find Lise already in their room, to remark upon the absence of Mr. Wiley's picture from the frame. "I'm through with him," Lise declared briefly, tugging at her hair. "Through with him?" Janet repeated. Lise paused in her labours and looked at her sister steadily. "I handed him the mit do you get me?" "But why?"
"Didn't I tell you I was sick of him? But he sure was some spender," she added, as though in justice bound to give him his due. Janet was shocked by the ruthlessness of it, for Lise appeared relieved, almost gay. She handed Janet a box containing five peppermint creams all that remained of Mr. Wiley's last gift.
Wiley's American series is athirst for the volumes of tales; and how stands the prospect for the History of Witchcraft, I whilom spoke of?" The History Hawthorne wisely eschewed; but early in 1846 the "Mosses from an Old Manse" was issued at New York, in two volumes.
Her thoughts were busy with the new problem; these followers were Wiley's men, of course. He had boasted that he would have more able tools to aid him in the future than Vernon had proved. Where had he obtained them? "Are they professional detectives, do you think, Dan?" she asked. He needed but the word to start him. "They are that!
"I've heard them talking and I've a hunch that they're both going to invest pretty heavily in the Almas Perderse stock when it is issued. They have faith in Wiley's knowledge of a good thing when he sees it, and I fancy it's sound, at that.
He kicked over the boxes and plunged into the store-room, throwing beans and flour sacks right and left, and then in the corner behind a huge pile of pinon nuts he found a single can of tomatoes. Whoever had treasured it had kept it too long, for Wiley's knife was already out and as he cut out the top he tipped it slowly up and drained it to the bottom.
If there was anything left of his mill but the frame, Wiley's ears had played him false; and yet he stood and looked after Virginia. This grinding crash, this pandemonium of destruction which had left him sick with fear, had put joy into her dancing feet. Yes, she had danced like a child that hears good news or runs to meet its father and he had thought her worthy of his love!
"Didn't I tell you I was sick of him? But he sure was some spender," she added, as though in justice bound to give him his due. Janet was shocked by the ruthlessness of it, for Lise appeared relieved, almost gay. She handed Janet a box containing five peppermint creams all that remained of Mr. Wiley's last gift.
The Colonel's eyes narrowed, and he motioned the officer aside as he laid his own hand on Wiley's shoulder. "Every citizen of the state," he said with dignity, "has the authority to arrest a fugitive and Mr. Holman is my prisoner. Is that satisfactory to you, Mr. Officer?" "Why why, yes," stammered the Constable and as the Colonel smiled Blount forgot his studied repose.
She had gained it by wiles that were not absolutely straight-forward, in that she had squeezed Wiley's hand in return, and since by so doing she had compromised with her conscience she placated it by withholding the great news.
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