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She wrote two letters, and then curled up to her novel and candy. Next day Senator Smith held Miss Wynn's letter unopened in his hand when Mr. Easterly entered. They talked of the campaign and various matters, until at last Easterly said: "Say, there's a Negro clerk in the Treasury named Alwyn." "I know him I had him appointed." "Good. He may help us. Have you seen this?"
There was something so unutterably vile in the reverend gentleman's utterance and emphasis of this oath that the two men, albeit both easy and facile blasphemers, felt shocked; as the purest of actresses is apt to overdo the rakishness of a gay Lothario, Father Wynn's immaculate conception of an imprecation was something terrible.
Carried away by his heartiness, he forgot his previous caution, and confided to the expressman Miss Nellie's regrets that she was not to have that gentleman's company. But a more serious result to the young beauty was the effect of the Rev. Mr. Wynn's confidences upon the impulsive heart of Jack Brace, the expressman. It has been already intimated that it was his "day off."
Tired but peaceful, we reached Ordway at dark and Mrs. Wynn's supper of ham and eggs and potatoes completed our day most satisfactorily. My father, who had planned to establish a little store on his claim, now engaged me as his representative, his clerk, and I spent the next week in hauling lumber and in helping to build the shanty and ware-room on the section line.
This knowledge caused a restraint between the two partners, all the greater because Wynn's forgery, and defalcation had wiped out all the cash assets of Clancy and the firm some fifteen thousand dollars which had not been recovered. Clancy would not tell all this to any one, for fear it might reach Mrs. Wynn.
'Is it me, yer honour? and the dolorous submissiveness of Andy's countenance was a change marvellous to behold. 'What could the likes of me have to say to the likes of you, sir? Arthur Wynn's gravity was fairly overcome, and he got a heavy fit of coughing in his pocket-handkerchief.
I remember nothing else very noteworthy in this first day's experience, except that on Sir Watkins Williams Wynn's door, not far from this house, I saw a gold knocker, which is said to be unscrewed every night lest it should be stolen. I don't know whether it be really gold; for it did not look so bright as the generality of brass ones. I received a very good letter from J this morning.
After a few moments' waiting, she returned to the destructor, where the flames were falling, and churned up Wynn's charring books with the poker. Again the head groaned for the doctor. 'Stop that! said Mary, and stamped her foot. 'Stop that, you bloody pagan! The words came quite smoothly and naturally.
'And now, said Miss Fowler, 'we'll pull up the blinds and we'll have a general tidy. That always does us good. Have you seen to Wynn's things? 'Everything since he first came, said Mary. 'He was never destructive even with his toys. They faced that neat room. 'It can't be natural not to cry, Mary said at last. 'I'm so afraid you'll have a reaction.
Now, I don't mind tellin' you, squire, lowering his voice to a whisper, 'that I've cleared a hundred per cent. on some sales in my time; an' the money hain't been idle since, you may b'lieve. Thar! that's sharp tradin', I guess? 'Yes, sir, very sharp indeed. Mr. Wynn's face by no means reflected the Yankee's smile.
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