The American Claimant

he attempt would fall so far short of the purpose. However when he had worn himself out and got quiet again, he looked the matter over and decided tha

with imposing state and ceremony, and added the supreme touch by off

Gwendolen Sellers supported the Rossmore dignity. All day she was American, practically, and proud of the work of her head and hands and its commercial result; all the evening she took holiday and dwelt in a rich shadow-land peopled with titled and coroneted fictions. By day, to her, the place was a plain, unaffected, ramshackle old trap- just that, and nothing more; by night it was Rossmore Towers. At college she had learned a trade without knowing it. The girls had found out that she was the designer of her own gow

successful by nature-don't know what defeat is; thus, intensely and practically American by inhaled nationalism, and at the same time intensely and aristocratically European by inherited nobi

d their reward. Toward evening on the 20th of May, they got a letter for X

ou are playing square go and set on it to-morrow morn

er the note profoundly.

afraid we are a sheri

, m'

wanted to know who was roosting on that ash-barrel without exposing himself by going near it, or seeming to be interes

e candid and straightforward. He acts as if he thought we-shuck

ou've struck it sure, Wa

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y is a lonesome little pocket that runs along

es' you t

ble behind his shutters at 10.22 to-morrow, and when he sees us sitting on the ash-barrel, he'll say to himself, 'I saw

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up, Colonel-it's exa

d he w

t he?

be coming in with an officer and a requisition in plain clothes-the off

Colonel Sellers! I never should h

ution and Mulberry-as earl; but it's office hours, now, you se

w Gadsby about nine in the evening, and

ith a wave of his hand which took in the whole sid

six stories high. I don't qu

I'm indifferent, now that I have located him. You go an

t at last the watcher got a glimpse of a figure that was satisfactory-got a glimpse of the back of it, though he had missed his chance at the face through waning alertness. The glimpse revealed a cowboy hat, and below

d I don't care where or when that man approaches me backwards, I'll

half past eleven they were at home and happy, and we

nger was a young kinsman of Mulberry Sellers, but Mulberry was