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Was not Craig intended by Mrs. Stillwater for Jessie, the eldest and only serious one of the three? And was not his conduct, his hanging about Margaret and his shying off from Jessie, thoroughly up on public questions and competent to discuss them with anybody was not his conduct most menacing to her plans? Mrs.
"The highest and the two lowest to be partners?" inquired Rose, as she lifted half the pack. "Of course, that is the rule." Each person cut in turn, and fortune favored Mrs. Stillwater to Mr. Clarence, and Cora to Mr. Rockharrt. Then they cut for deal, and fortune favored Mr. Rockharrt. The cards were dealt around.
Stillwater people thought it very strange that I should prefer his society to that of the young fellows of my own age. Mrs. Campbell was quite worried over it, and opined that there had always been something queer about me. "Birds of a feather." I loved that old garden by the harbour shore. Even Abel himself, I think, could hardly have felt a deeper affection for it.
When the venerable doctor left the room, Mr. Rockharrt withdrew to the corridor to give the nurse an opportunity to dress the convalescent for her journey. He walked up and down the corridor for a few minutes, at the end of which Rose Stillwater came out dressed for her drive, and leaning on the arm of Cora Rothsay. Mr.
Torrini has a great deal of that kind of ability; perhaps a trifle too much for his own good or anybody else's. There was never any trouble to speak of among the trades in Stillwater till he and two or three others came here with foreign grievances. These men get three times the pay they ever received in their own land, and are treated like human beings for the first time in their lives.
Taggett every morning chiefly anonymous suggestions, and offers of assistance from lunatics in remote cities was enough in itself to expasperate a community. Covertly at first, and then openly, Stillwater began seriously to question Mr. Taggett's method of working up the case.
"It is from Mrs. Stillwater. That lady is a perfect model of promptitude and punctuality. She says but I had better read it to you. John, you need not wait," said Mr. Rockharrt. The negro, who had lingered from curiosity to hear what was in the telegram, immediately retired. Old Aaron Rockharrt took up the long slip, adjusted his spectacles and read: WIRT HOUSE, BALTIMORE, MD., May 16th, 18
Whom should he have selected but "'The Rose that all ad-mi-r-r-? "Clarence, what, in the fiend's name, do you mean? Whom has my father married?" demanded Mr. Fabian, starting up and staring at his younger brother. "Mrs. Rose Flowers Stillwater," replied Mr. Clarence, staring back. Mr. Fabian dropped back in his chair, while every vestige of color left his face. "Why, Fabian! Fabian!
After all, is not the one-eyed man who is king among the blind the most fortunate of monarchs? Your little talent in a provincial village looms a great deal taller than your mighty genius in a city. Richard Whackford working for Rowland Slocum at Stillwater was happier than Michaelangelo in Rome with Pope Julius II. at his back. And Richard was the better paid, too!
"We'll lose the case," calculated Stillwater; "we'll save our friends, and get rid of Craig, whom everybody will blame the damned, bumptious, sophomoric blow-hard!" What excuse did Stillwater make to himself for himself in this course of seeming treachery and assassination? For, being a man of the highest principles, he would not deliberately plan an assassination as an assassination.
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