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Come, let's go into the hotel and hear what they're talking about." After the custom of the times a large crowd was gathered in the spacious lobby of Richmond's chief hotel. Among them were the local celebrities in other things than war, Daniel, Bagby, Pegram, Randolph, and a half-dozen more, musicians, artists, poets, orators and wits.
'Ah, Valmont, said the young man, patting his wife affectionately on the shoulder, 'nothing on earth can be more genuine than that ceremony was. And the volatile Lady Alicia snuggled closer to him. The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs I dropped in on my friend, Sherlaw Kombs, to hear what he had to say about the Pegram mystery, as it had come to be called in the newspapers.
The doctor merely stared after him quizzically, like an old schoolmaster, as the rather stately colonel marched off to his home. Another of his patients was an old Mr. Pegram, a large, kind, big-hearted man, who was very fond of the doctor, but who had an exceedingly irascible temper. He was the victim of some obscure malady which medicine apparently failed at times to relieve.
"Tell me about it," he said simply. "Old Barrie Kipson," I began, "was a stockbroker in the City. He lived in Pegram, and it was his custom to " "COME IN!" shouted Kombs, without changing his position, but with a suddenness that startled me. I had heard no knock. "Excuse me," said my friend, laughing, "my invitation to enter was a trifle premature.
In the phraseology of the period, all were "belles"; Hetty and Constance Cary, Mary Triplett, Turner MacFarland, Jenny Pegram, the three Fishers, Evelyn Cabell, and others. About them came the "beaux," the younger officers who were here to-night, the aides, the unwedded legislators. Judith listened, talked, played her part. She had a personal success in Richmond.
So he cut it short, and in another minute pretty well lifted Teddy into the car and bade the driver carry 'em to Little Silver. Pegram said no more after that, but a fiend glared out of his eyes as he stared on the other, and Joseph, though he'd seen some hard cases, said afterwards that he never wanted to look on such a wicked face again.
"Like enough, like enough, young man," said Uncle Jabez Snyder, in his tremulous tones, "and mebbe some folks not a hunderd miles from here could tell you another dozen that hadn't no natural causes." "I should like very much to hear them," replied the young man, with an exasperatingly incredulous smile. "If Pegram here wasn't in such a durned hurry to turn us out and shet up," said Mr.
The scene changed again, and it was the side of a ravine, with a fine view of the river and with Morell and Couch blazing somewhere above. The shells went overhead, bellowing monsters charging a grey battery on a hillock and a distant line of troops. "That's Pegram that battery," said some one. "He does well." "Has any one any idea of the time?" asked another. "Sun's so hidden there's no guessing.
"Major Pegram was killed last Wednesday, when trying to get through our lines about Winchester." "Poor fellow!" Nancy's tone was keyed to express simply natural sorrow and regret. "I am sure his death became him." Stanton looked baffled, as his bomb shell exploded without apparent effect. Was there no vulnerable spot in her armor of iron self-control? After a moment he continued his examination.
He chanced Pegram for a minute then and nipped out on the driver just as he was lighting a cigarette. He proved to be a young fellow from so far off as Torquay, and he didn't put up no fight whatever, feeling no fear on his own account. He was working for wages and doing what he was told, and he caved in at once and obeyed the policeman's orders, that worse might not overtake him.
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