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I told him of the broken engagement, of Chyd's indifference, of the old couple's plan to leave the community, and I unfolded my sentimental resolve to buy the old house. "And now I must ask a favor," I continued. "Old man Perdue told me that he would pay me for the time time I have not taught, but as I am not going to fill out the term it wouldn't be right to take the money."
I mentioned John Perdue poor golden-haired "Baron Bertram" only because he had something to do with the circumstances which led Charley Vanderhuyn to use that ambiguous interjection about "the Dickens!"
"So I rode about the country, over the heaths, and through the green lanes of my native land, occasionally visiting friends at a distance, and sometimes, for variety's sake, I staid at home and amused myself by catching huge pike, which lie perdue in certain deep ponds skirted with lofty reeds, upon my land, and to which there is a communication from the lagoon by a deep and narrow watercourse.
"Hold, while you live," whispered Dalgetty, laying hold on him. "We must be perdue, if possible. So bar we this door, that it may be thought M'Callum More would be private and now let me make a reconnaissance for the private passage."
The cottage is in no wise remarkable in itself; but I regarded it with reverence, for it had been the asylum of a persecuted author. Hither poor Steele had retreated and lain perdue when persecuted by creditors and bailiffs; those immemorial plagues of authors and free-spirited gentlemen; and here he had written many numbers of the Spectator.
"Certainly, who else would it be?" replied Perdue. Silence followed these words, and the men looked at one another. Pritchen, noticing this, was vexed and puzzled. "Well, what do you think of it?" he blurted out. "I don't think much about it, if you ask me," responded Missouri. "You can't prove that the parson had anything to do with that chap's death." "But the book."
Then he seized it roughly in his hand, and held it up for a better inspection. It was not the little laugh given by one of the men which stirred Keith so intensely, but the wink he caught Pritchen tipping to Perdue. It was that quick telegraphic message, the base innuendo which stung and lashed him more than a thousand words.
They had their eyes peeled fer bizness, ye bet yer life." "Tell us, Sol, how they chose them," asked Perdue. "Sometimes by vote, either by ballot or show of hands." "Was it ever left to the chairman to appoint them?" continued Perdue. "I should think that's a much easier way, and I suggest that we do the same." "Hear, hear!" came the response. "Go ahead, Bill.
"Well, what would you think if you found a book like that miles from nowhere?" replied Pritchen, who was most anxious to tell his story. "'Tis queer, when ye come to think of it," soliloquized Perdue with a characteristic nod of the head. "It's very much out of the ordinary, I should say."
So I rode about the country, over the heaths, and through the green lanes of my native land, occasionally visiting friends at a distance, and sometimes, for variety's sake, I stayed at home and amused myself by catching huge pike, which lie perdue in certain deep ponds skirted with lofty reeds, upon my land, and to which there is a communication from the lagoon by a deep and narrow watercourse.
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