. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. wilderment that enveloped usall. He hopped up right into the airand when he lit he ordered everyoneto do something; and then not to doit; and then to do it or not, just ashe wanted them to do, or didnt wantthem to do. He demanded that we allstart in pursuit and ordered out allkind of vehicles, from balloons to sub-marines. Then he undertook to ex-press himself as the matter seemed todemand and his remarks were suchthat old Miss Baxter went upstairs, 22 THE BUSY MANS MAGAZINE. screaming, with her hands over herears and the pins falling out of herwaterfa
. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. wilderment that enveloped usall. He hopped up right into the airand when he lit he ordered everyoneto do something; and then not to doit; and then to do it or not, just ashe wanted them to do, or didnt wantthem to do. He demanded that we allstart in pursuit and ordered out allkind of vehicles, from balloons to sub-marines. Then he undertook to ex-press himself as the matter seemed todemand and his remarks were suchthat old Miss Baxter went upstairs, 22 THE BUSY MANS MAGAZINE. screaming, with her hands over herears and the pins falling out of herwaterfall like autumn leaves in a said that there was aminister at the Crossing and that theyhad probably gone there. So Ana-tole was dragged away from the doorof the wine cellar and told to bringout the Daim-Vite car and get usover to the Crossing, immediately,and as much sooner as was by this time ina state of incipient apoplexy, and therest were busy trying to keep himfrom getting in all over; so Monty. His Expression.— Fiske and I, being deemed the leastvaluable to the world at large, hencethe best qualified to ride with Ana-tole, were the only ones to go, whichwe were glad to do for the doublepurpose of being in at the finish andof gaining an opportunity to tell eachother what we thought of things. We broke speed ordinances thatnight so that you couldnt have founda segment with a fine tooth comb; andit couldnt have been more than eightminutes before we sighted the min-isters abode which we at once recog-nized because we saw the headlight of Hicks car in the street in front of thegate. Before the Daim-Vite came to astop, we had hopped out and chargedtoward the front gate. But just aswe reached it, the door of the houseopened and out came Hortense, lean-ing on the arm of a tall, broad-shoul-dered fellow whom I immediately re-cognized as Hastings, 02. I knewhim on the instant, for hadnt I playedfootball on the same eleven, rowed onthe same c
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