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He's settin' there with his hair standin' straight up and ink on his nose and clear to his elbows, and he didn't let me even get started in conversation. He up and throwed three ledger-books and five sticks of wood at me, and so I come away," added Mr. Nute, resignedly. "I don't advise nobody to go in there."
Nute, calmly, "now that you're with us, Cap'n, and seem to be quieted down a little, I'll perceed to execute the errunt put upon me as chairman of the notification committee." With Mr.
The wreck of the wagon halted them. "I s'pose you've jest seen our first selectman-elect pass this way, haven't ye?" inquired Mr. Nute, with official conservatism. The Colonel had not yet regained his powers of speech. He jabbed with bony finger in the direction of the railroad, and moved his jaws voicelessly. Mr.
He found the stock of bar silver on the west face of the Andes that made old Nute Hardman a quarter of a million dollars, clear, after the cursed beast had split it a half dozen ways with a crooked South American government." Barclay's teeth set and he jerked up his clinched hand. "It was a damned steal, Sir Henry.
I went down to my bank and got twenty U. S. bonds of a thousand each. At five o'clock, the professor had his dope ready the text and the chart, neatly folded in a big manilla envelope with a rubber band around it. And that evening I went up to see old Nute." Barclay got another cigarette. There was a queer cynicism in his big pitted face.
Pers'n'ly, I feel like a tiger strainin' at his chain, and I'd like orders to go ahead." "Tiger, hey?" remarked the Cap'n, looking him up and down. "I knowed you reminded me of something, but I didn't know what, before. Now, if them wimmen " he began with decision, but broke off to stare through the town-office window. Mr. Nute stepped from the door to take observation, too.
Nute rose slowly and marched out of the hall, the other two victims following without any especial signs of enthusiasm. In the yard of the town house Mr. Nute faced them, and remarked: "I have some ideas of my own as to a genteel way of gittin' him interested in this honor that we are about to bestow. Has any one else ideas?" The other two constables shook their heads gloomily.
And he remembered that insane people were more easily prevailed upon by those who appeared to make no account of their whims. During it all, Cap'n Sproul had been silent in utter amazement. The truth had come in a blinding flash that would have unsettled a man not so well trained to control emotion. "Drive along," he curtly commanded Nute, paying no heed to the incensed Colonel's railings.
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