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During their bridal trip, Carry had been placed in the charge of Colonel Starbottle's sister. On their return to the city, immediately on reaching their lodgings, Mrs. Starbottle announced her intention of at once proceeding to Mrs. Culpepper's to bring the child home.
I came home late from the store and I'm not done my supper yet." "We'll keep you only a few minutes at the most, Dock," continued Tom; "you take the orders for groceries for the store, don't you?" "What, me? Why, course I do. Ain't you seen me a-goin' around with that bob-tail racer of Old Culpepper's that could make a mile in seventeen minutes if you kept the whip a-waggin' over his back?
Culpepper's office in the forenoon and ask for the certificate of stock he has in his safe." "So she laid it on the table, did she?" pursued Tom, shaking his head. "Don't you think that it was a little careless, Carl, in your mother, to do that?" "She can't forgive herself for doing it," replied his chum, sadly.
Culpepper's stinginess in holding out against Dock's demands is going to be his undoing." Such confident talk as this could not help having its effect on Carl. He had in fact come over to Tom's house knowing that he was sure to get comfort there.
And then Miss Lucy and Mrs. Barclay told the child of their plans, that Miss Lucy was going to war as a nurse, and that Mrs. Barclay was to teach the Sycamore Ridge school during the winter. And in a few weeks John was out of the hero business, working in Culpepper's store after school, and getting used to a limp that stayed with him all his life.
Culpepper's arm was still round the neck of his late foe, but his head had drooped and fallen on the wounded man's shoulder. The surgeon looked down, and, catching sight of his face, stooped and lifted him gently in his arms. He opened his coat and waistcoat. There was blood upon his shirt, and a bullet-hole in his breast. He had been shot unto death at the first fire.
"That's very true, Bob," replied I: "it is only this very morning that he laughed himself, and I laughed also, and he pulled up immediately afterwards, twice as stiff to me as before." I then told Bob of Mr Culpepper's report, which amused him very much. "I am sure that he is pleased with you, Mr Keene, and I must say that you were very useful and very active."
Would a letter from me to you, setting forth the desperate need of this accommodation paper, not especially for me, but for Colonel Culpepper's fortunes and the good name of the Hendricks family would that help your cause a letter that you could show; a letter," Barclay said slowly, "asking for this accommodation; a letter that you could show to to well, to the proper parties, let us say, to-night; would that kind of a letter help " Barclay rose suddenly to an upright position and went on: "Say, Mr.
Wherefore, or at whose commands, he had done this I had no occasion to discover, since he lay like a sick dog and might not see nor hear nor speak; but this it was told me he had done: in every way he sought to let and hinder T. Culpepper's coming to England with so marked an importunity that at last Culpepper did set his crony to beat this boy. He paused again.
'Why, he said, 'you may hold it for main and certain that he have not had Kat Howard down. For, having had her down, a would never have thrown a man by the throat for miscalling of her. Therefore Kat Howard is up for all of he, and I may loosen my feelings. He spat gravely at Culpepper's feet.
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