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Of course I was given this letter to read, and I suggested the utmost caution in obeying this request, for, as the old rat in the fable said, there might be "concealed mischief in this heap of meal" I called for the other two letters, and found they were written by the same hand Willis says: "Oh! I know the old boss too well, he's true as steel; he won't have anything to do with trap business.
He confessed it an evil, but said, 'I am a colonizationist I believe in that scheme. Mr. Willis is a teacher of sacred music, and a member of the Presbyterian Church in Lexington, Kentucky." Mr. R. speaking of the PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER and church where he resided, says: "The minister and all the church members held slaves. Some were treated kindly, others harshly.
The new boy, Grant Thornton, was a member of the household. He probably had the run of the house. What more probable than that he should enter Mrs. Estabrook's chamber and search her bureau? This was the way Willis reasoned. He knew that his stepmother hated Grant, and would be very willing to believe anything against him. He would take care that suspicion should fall in that direction.
After a very heated discussion, Buffalo Roost was chosen for the name, and Willis set about gathering twigs to make a rustic sign for over the door. The wood all in, the dinner dishes washed, and the cabin put in order, the next thing to do was to thatch the big bed. O, what mountains of sweet-scented green boughs it took! One party, under Mr.
Willis held out his hand for the key, and Ben urged him on. Tad looked far away over the snowy hills, then up the quiet valley, so peaceful in its white robes, and at last down to the little cabin below. There his gaze rested. "My, but it hardly seems fourteen years since I built that shanty," he said. "How happy I was then! Fourteen years brings strange things into a man's life.
"It may be so, but I have my suspicions. I don't trust Willis Ford." "Shall you go round to the Fifth Avenue Hotel to meet Grant to-morrow morning." "Of course I shall. I want to see what the boy says. It may be a put-up job between him and Ford." The very same question was put by Grant to Mr. Reynolds. "Shall I go round to the hotel to-morrow morning to see Morrison and Tom Calder?"
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This far from edifying scene was without precedent in the annals of Upper Canadian courts of justice, and was for some days the talk of the town, more especially among the members of the legal profession. The bar generally sided with the Attorney-General, and were loud in their aspersions upon Judge Willis.
I wish you could see her at school; she is the pet of all the girls at Lavender House." "That may be," said Sir John, with a slightly sarcastic movement of his thin lips; "but it does not follow that school pets are home pets. If my good friend, Mrs. Willis, finds Nan's society so agreeable, I wish she would arrange to keep her for the holidays."
"You said, in your letter to her, that you had told Annie a week ago that you were coming. Then Annie said that she had never got your letter." "It is very queer," said Mrs. Willis. "I must write to the post office in Paris and make inquiries. Well, I am glad the ring is safe." "Of course, it is as safe as possible," said Annie. "It is too bad about the letter," she continued.
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