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"Yes," I said, "I know; but we're all up a tree, aren't we?"
"For the present," laughed Godfrey, "we do occupy that undignified
position. But you don't expect to stay there forever, do you,
Lester?"
"Since my theory about the Boule cabinet exploded," I said, "I have
given up hope. By the way, I'm going to turn the cab... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"Why, no; let him have his cabinet," said Godfrey, with an alacrity
that surprised me. "If your theory about it has been exploded, what's
the use of hanging on to it?"
"I don't see any use in doing so," I admitted, "but I thought perhaps
you might want more time to examine it."
"I've examined it all I'm going to," God... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
Parks switched on the lights for us, and my companion glanced with
surprise at the heavy shutters covering the windows.
"We put those up for a protection," I explained. "We had an idea that
some one would try to enter. In fact, one evening we _did_ find a
wire connecting with the burglar-alarm cut, and, later on, saw ... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
M. Armand snapped the drawer back into place with a little crash.
"I am glad, at any rate, that it _was_ discovered," he said. "I will
not conceal from you, Mr. Lester, that it adds not a little to the
value of the cabinet."
"What is its value?" I asked. "Mr. Vantine wanted me to buy it for
him, and named a most extra... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"I have no doubt it is all right, sir," the museum man hastened to
assure me. "You, of course, have personal knowledge of all this?"
"Certainly. Mr. Vantine himself told me the story."
"Very well, sir," but his eyes dwelt lovingly upon the Boule cabinet.
"That is a very handsome piece," he added. "I am sorry the museu... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"Thank you," I said. "I shall certainly remember that invitation.
And meanwhile, since you are here in New York...."
"You are most kind," he broke in, "and I was myself hoping that we
might at least dine together. But I am compelled to proceed to Boston
this evening, and from there I shall go on to Quebec. Whether I s... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
And just as it disappeared, one of its occupants turned toward me and
waved his hand--and I recognised Jim Godfrey.
CHAPTER XIX
"LA MORT!"
That my legs, without conscious effort of my own, should carry me up
the Avenue and around the corner after the cab in which I had seen
Godfrey was a foregone conclusion, and yet... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
What could Armand be doing in this part of the town, I asked myself?
Did he propose to leave that priceless cabinet in this dingy quarter?
And then I paused abruptly and slipped into an area-way, for the van
had stopped some distance ahead and was backing up to the curb.
Looking out discreetly, I saw the cab containin... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
Then we all stopped, and my heart, at least, was in my mouth, for,
from somewhere overhead, came the sound of a man's voice talking
excitedly.
Even in the semi-darkness, I could see the look of astonishment and
alarm on Godfrey's face, as he stood for a moment motionless,
listening to that voice. I also stood with ear... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
And as I stared at him, I caught the glitter of his eyes as he
watched the man working at the cabinet--a glitter not to be mistaken
--the same glitter which had so frightened me once before....
Godfrey drew me back with a firm hand and took my place. As for me, I
retreated to the stair, and sat there feverishly moppin... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"Come here, you fools!" cried Godfrey between clenched teeth. "Don't
you see he's getting away!"
Simmonds was quicker than I, and together they threw themselves at
the door. It cracked ominously, but still held; again they tried, and
this time it split from top to bottom. Godfrey kicked the pieces to
either side and s... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
Godfrey came over to me and laid his hand on my shoulder.
"Why, Lester," he said, "you look as though you were at your last
gasp."
"I am," I said. "I'm going to have nervous prostration if this thing
keeps up. You're not looking particularly happy yourself."
"I'm not happy. I've let that fellow kill a man right under ... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
The latest victim was lying where he had fallen, just inside the
doorway leading into the inner room. Simmonds stepped to the window,
threw open the shutters, and let a flood of afternoon sunshine into
the room. Then he knelt beside the body, and held up the limp right
hand for us to see.
Just above the knuckles were ... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"Was it Armand," I asked, turning back into the room, "who lay there
in the corner?"
"Certainly it was," Godfrey answered. "Who else could it be?"
"Godfrey!" I cried, remembering suddenly. "Did you see his eyes as he
lay there watching the man at the cabinet?"
"Yes; I saw them."
"They were the same eyes...."
"The same... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"Lock it up?" stammered Simmonds, staring at him.
"Yes," said Godfrey, "lock it up. That's our one salvation!" His face
was glowing; he was quite himself again, alert, confident of victory.
"You're in charge of this case, aren't you? Well, lock it up, and
give your reasons to nobody."
"That'll be easy," laughed Simmon... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"But, Godfrey, who is this man?" I repeated. "Why did he kill that
poor fellow up there? Why did he kill Drouet and Vantine? How did he
get into the Vantine house? What is it all about?"
"Ah!" he said, looking at me with a smile. "That is the important
question--what is it all about! But we can't discuss it here in th... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"If you have an explanation, Godfrey," I protested, "for heaven's
sake tell me! Don't keep me in the maze an instant longer than is
necessary. I've been thinking about it till my brain feels like a
snarl of tangled thread. Do you mean to say you know what it is all
about?"
"'Know' is perhaps a little strong. There isn... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"Tell me how you know all this, Godfrey," I said.
"Why, it was easy enough. When you told me yesterday of Armand, I
knew, or thought I knew, that it was a plant of some kind. But, in
order to be sure, I cabled our man at Paris to investigate. Our man
went at once to Armand, _père_, and he learned a number of very
inte... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"No doubt of that; and the other cabinet is the one which Vantine
really purchased. It was, of course, sent forward to this other
fellow's address, here in New York. His plan is evident enough--to
call upon Vantine, as the representative of the Armands, or perhaps
as the owner of the Montespan cabinet, and make the ex... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"If he didn't kill them, who did?"
Godfrey took two or three contemplative puffs, while I sat there
staring at him.
"Well," Godfrey answered, at last, "now I'm going to romance a
little. We will return to your fascinating friend, Armand, as we may
as well call him for the present. He is an extraordinary man."
"No doub... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"It certainly would!" I agreed. "Go ahead with your romance."
"Here it is. This M. Armand is a great criminal, and has, of course,
various followers, upon whom he must rely for the performance of
certain details, since he can be in but one place at a time. Abject
and absolute obedience is necessary to his success, and... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"I don't see how Armand could help himself after that fellow got his
hands on him."
"You don't? And yet you saw yourself that he was not really bound
--that he had cut himself loose!"
"That is true," I said, thoughtfully.
"Let us reconstruct the story," Godfrey went on rapidly. "The traitor
discovers the secret of the... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"Perhaps he had that prepared, too," I suggested timidly, ready to
believe anything of this extraordinary man. "Perhaps he knew that we
were there, all the time."
"Of course he did," assented Godfrey grimly. "Why else would there be
a snap-lock on the outside of the door? And to think I didn't see it!
To think that I ... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
And he went away down the hall, leaving me staring after him.
CHAPTER XXII
"CROCHARD, L'INVINCIBLE!"
It seemed for once that Godfrey was destined to be wrong, for the
days passed and nothing happened--nothing, that is, in so far as the
cabinet was concerned. There was an inquest, of course, over the
victim of the la... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
Grady did a lot of talking in those days, explaining in detail the
remarkable measures he was taking to capture the criminal; but the
fact remained that three men had been killed, and that no one had
been punished; that a series of crimes had been committed, and that
the criminal was still at large, and seemed likely ... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
Of the Boule cabinet itself Godfrey said little, saving his story for
the dénouement which he seemed so sure would come; but the details
which I have given above were dwelt upon in the _Record_, until,
happening to meet Godfrey on the street one day, I protested that he
would only succeed in frightening the fugitive a... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
I was inclined to doubt this, for I have no romantic admiration for
gentlemen burglars, even in fiction. However picturesque and
chivalric, a thief is, after all, a thief. Perhaps it is my training
as a lawyer, or perhaps I am simply narrow, but crime, however
brilliantly carried out, seems to me a sordid and unlovely... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
It was while I was sitting moodily in my room one night, debating
whether or not to go to bed; weary to exhaustion and yet reluctant to
resign myself to a sleep from which I knew I should wake shrieking,
that a knock came at the door--a knock I recognised; and I arose
joyfully to admit Godfrey.
I could see by the way ... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
Godfrey nodded.
"That," he said, "explains the one thing I didn't understand. Now go
ahead with your questions."
"You said a while ago that you would know all about this affair day
after to-morrow."
"Yes."
"How do you know you will?"
"Because I have received a letter which sets the date," and he took
from his pocket a... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"And now you know his name," Godfrey added, tapping the signature
with his finger. "I have been certain from the first that it was he!"
I gazed at the signature without answering. I had, of course, read in
the papers many times of the Gargantuan exploits of Crochard--"The
Invincible," as he loved to call himself, and ... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"I can't understand a man like that," I said.
"Well, look at this," said Godfrey, and tapped the letter again. "He
honours me by considering me an adversary. Does he seek to remove me?
On the contrary, he gives me a handicap. He takes off his queen in
order that it may be a little more difficult to mate me!"
"But, sur... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"Till after Wednesday, then," I agreed; and Godfrey, having verified
his letter and secured from me the two promises he was after, bade me
good-night.
CHAPTER XXIII
WE MEET M. PIGOT
I was just getting ready to leave the office the next afternoon when
Godfrey called me up.
"How are you feeling to-day, Lester?" he ask... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
Godfrey joined me presently, and we stood for some time looking at
this scene in silence.
"It's a great sight, isn't it?" he said, at last. "Hello! look at
that boat!" he added, as a yacht, coming down the bay, drew abreast
of us and then slowly forged ahead. "She can go some, can't she? This
boat of ours is no slouch... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"I should like to see M. Pigot, of the Paris _Service du Sûreté_" he
said. "Perhaps you will be so kind as to have a steward take my card
to him?"
"That is unnecessary, sir," replied the purser, courteously. "That is
M. Pigot yonder--the gentleman with the white hair, with his back to
us. You will have to wait for a m... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"I move we storm his castle," suggested the _World_ man.
And just then, M. Pigot himself stepped out into the companionway. In
an instant he was surrounded.
"My good friends of the press," he said, speaking slowly, but with
only the faintest accent, and he smiled around at the faces bent upon
him. "You will pardon me ... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
I could hear behind me the little indrawn breath of disappointment at
the failure of the direct attack. M. Pigot's position was, of course,
absolutely correct; but nevertheless Godfrey prepared to attack it on
the flank.
"You are going ashore to-night?" he inquired.
"I was expecting a representative of your bureau to ... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
But the attentive steward got ahead of Simmonds.
M. Pigot turned to us with a little smile.
"Till to-morrow, gentlemen," he said. "I shall be at the Hotel Astor,
and shall be glad to see you--shall we say at eleven o'clock? I am
truly sorry that I can tell you nothing to-night."
He shook hands with the purser, waved h... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
Often as I have seen it, Broadway at night is still a fascinating
place to me, with its blazing signs, its changing crowds, its
clanging street traffic, its bright shop-windows. Grady was right in
saying that "gay Paree" had nothing like it; nor has any other city
that I know. It is, indeed, unique and thoroughly Amer... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"Where are you going now?" I asked.
"We're going round to the station. Piggott says he's got a sensation
up his sleeve for us--it's got something to do with that cabinet."
"With the cabinet?"
"Yes--that shiny thing Godfrey got me to lock up in a cell."
"Simmonds," I said, seriously, "does Godfrey know about this?"
"No... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"Yes--tell him Pigot is at the Twenty-third Street station, and that
he'd better come up as soon as he can."
"Very good. I'll give him the message the moment he comes in."
"Thank you," I said, but the disappointment was a bitter one.
In the street again, I paused hesitatingly at the curb, my eyes on
the red light of t... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
They all looked at me as I entered, Pigot with an evident contraction
of the brows which showed how strongly his urbanity was strained;
Simmonds with an affectation of surprise, and Grady with a bland and
somewhat vacant smile. My heart rose when I saw that smile.
"Well, Mr. Lester," he said, "so you want to see this ... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
Grady's smile hardened a little. Perhaps he did not like the
imperatives. At any rate, he ignored the hint.
"Understand, Mr. Lester?" he asked, looking at me, and I nodded.
I saw Pigot's eyes flame and his face flush with anger, for Grady's
tone was almost insulting. For an instant I thought that he would
refuse to pr... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"He was, understand well, not for an instant deceived. He knew
thoroughly what we were doing, for what we were searching. He knew
also that nowhere in Europe would he dare to attempt to sell a single
one of those jewels. We suspected that he would attempt to bring them
to this country, and we warned your department of... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"Very simply," said M. Pigot, coldly. "Death came to Drouet
and M. Vantine because the maid of Madame la Duchesse mistook
her left hand for her right. The drawer which contained the
letters is at the left of the cabinet--see," and he
pressed the series of springs, caught the little handle, and
pulled the drawer open. ... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
Some such vision as this, I say, passed before my eyes, and I had a
feeling that M. Pigot shared in it; but, after an instant, he turned
back to the cabinet.
"Now, M. Simmón," he said, briskly, in an altered voice, "if you will
have the kindness to hold the drawer for a moment in this position, I
will draw the serpent... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"This Croshar--or whatever his name is,--seems to be a 'strordinary
feller," observed Grady, relighting his cigar.
"He is," agreed M. Pigot, quietly; "a most extraordinary man. But
even he is not infallible; for, since the memoir made no mention of
the other secret drawer--the one in which Madame la Duchesse
concealed... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"Perhaps you have stopped to admire the Mazarin diamond in the
_galérie d'Apollon_ at the Louvre," said M. Pigot. "There is always a
crowd about that case, and a special attendant is installed there to
guard it, for it contains some articles of great value. But the
Mazarin is not one of them; for it is not a diamond a... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"The Grand Duke Michael must have been considerably upset," remarked
Simmonds, who, throughout all this scene, had lost no whit of his
serenity of demeanour.
"He has been like a madman," said M. Pigot, smiling a little at
Simmonds's unemotional tone. "These jewels are a passion with him; he
worships them; he never has... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"You'd better get a receipt," Grady went on, "and arrange that the
valise is to be delivered only when you and Moosseer Piggott appear
together. That will be satisfactory, moosseer?" he added, turning to
the Frenchman.
"Entirely so, sir."
"Very well, then; I'll see you in the morning. I congratulate you on
the find. I... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"He certainly held trumps this time, anyway," I commented. "And he
played his hand superbly. He is an extraordinary man."
"And a great actor," Grady supplemented. "Them fellers always behave
like they was on the stage, right in the spot-light. It makes me a
little tired, sometimes. Hello! Who's that?"
The front door h... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
I clung to the hand-rail as the wagon swayed back and forth or
bounded into the air as it struck the car-tracks, and stared out into
the night, struggling to understand. Could Godfrey be right? But of
course he was right! Some intuition told me that; and yet, how had
Crochard managed to substitute himself for the Fren... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"You didn't hear anything--no sound of a struggle?"
"Not a sound, sir; not a single sound."
"And you haven't any idea where the other man got out?"
"No, sir."
"Mr. Simmonds had a little valise with him--did you notice it?"
"Yes, sir; and I looked for it in the wagon, but it ain't there."
Grady turned away with a curse... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"Where am I?" gasped Simmonds. Then his eyes encountered mine.
"Lester!" he said. "Where is he--Piggott? Not...."
He stopped short, looked once around at the gleaming marble of the
bank, fumbled for something at his side, and fell senseless on the
seat.
I have no recollection of how I got back to the Marathon. I suppo... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"Of course," I assented, surprised that Godfrey should take it so
coolly. "When you rushed out that way," I added, "I thought maybe you
were going after him."
"With him twenty minutes in the lead? I'm no such fool! He got away
from me the other day with a start of about half a second."
"I tried to get you," I explaine... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"Crochard wouldn't stop for that. But it wasn't much of a risk. None
of us had seen Pigot closely; all we had seen of him was the back of
his head; and the passengers were all on deck watching the quarantine
men. And yet, of course, the disguise was a perfect one. Crochard is
an artist in that line, and he was, no dou... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
I could hear him chuckling to himself.
"Good-night," he said, and hung up.
CHAPTER XXVII
THE LAST ACT OF THE DRAMA
I overslept, next morning, so outrageously that it was not until I
had got a seat in a subway express that I had time to open my paper.
My first glance was for the big head that would tell of the diamon... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"I'm glad to see you are better, Simmonds," I said, shaking hands
with him. "That was a close call."
"It certainly was," Simmonds agreed, sinking into a chair. "If I had
got a little more of it, I'd never have waked up."
"Do you remember anything about it?"
"Not a thing. One minute we were sitting there talking togeth... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"That's right--it wasn't none of your business."
"Perhaps not. And yet, if I had been there, the cleverest thief in
Paris, if not in the world, would be safe behind those chrome-nickle
steel bars at the Twenty-third Street station, instead of at liberty
to go ahead and rob somebody else."
"You're mighty cocksure," ret... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
He came forward, looking from face to face; then his eyes met
Godfrey's and he smiled.
"Behold that I am here, monsieur," he said and I started anew at the
voice, for it was the voice of Crochard. "I hope that I have not kept
you waiting."
"Not at all, M. Pigot," Godfrey assured him, and placed a chair for
him.
I coul... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
Grady reddened visibly, and even I felt my face grow hot. M. Pigot
looked at us with a smile of amusement.
"It must have been a most interesting experience," he said, "to have
seen Crochard at work. I have never had that privilege. But I regret
that he should have made good his escape."
"More especially since he took ... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"Oh, there is no use taking all that trouble," broke in Godfrey,
negligently. "Crochard won't try to sell them."
"Won't try to sell them?" echoed Grady. "What's the reason he won't?"
"Because he hasn't got them," answered Godfrey, smiling with an
evidently deep enjoyment of Grady's dazed countenance.
"Oh, come off!" s... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"Think of what?" I asked.
"Of the key to the mystery. The drawer containing the letters was on
the left side of the desk; I saw at once that there must be another
drawer, opened in the same way, on the right side."
"I didn't see it," I said. "I don't see it yet."
"Think a minute. Why was Drouet killed? Because he open... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"My dear Lester," he said, "he knew that the game was up the instant
he opened the first packet. Do you suppose he would be deceived? Not
by the best reproduction ever made!"
And then I remembered the slow flush which had crept into Crochard's
cheeks as he opened that first packet!
"I didn't expect to deceive him," Go... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
It proved to be not only a receipt, but a full statement of the facts
of the case, without omitting the details of the robbery and the
credit due the _Record_ for the recovery of the diamonds. Grady's
face grew redder and redder as the reading proceeded.
"I won't sign no such testimonial as that," he blustered. "Not o... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
It was perhaps ten days afterwards that Godfrey dropped in to see me
one evening. I was just back from a week on Cape Cod, which had done
me a world of good; and, I need hardly say, was glad to see him.
"You're looking normal again," he said, surveying me, as he sat
down. "I was worried about you for a while."
"I neve... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
"So that it is mine now?"
"Yes; but I'm going to solicit a bribe."
"Go ahead and solicit it."
"I want a souvenir, too," I said. "I'd like awfully well to have that
letter--besides," I added, "it will be a kind of receipt, you know,
if anybody ever questions my giving you the cabinet."
Godfrey laughed and threw the let... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
Who, I wondered, had bought the Mazarin? Surely there was a diamond
most difficult to sell.
It could, of course, be cut up--- but that would be sacrilege!
That question was answered, before long, in an unexpected way--a way
which filled many columns in the papers, which delighted the
comedy-loving French, and which ga... | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story | Stevenson, Burton Egbert | 1872 | 1962 | ['en'] | 61 | {'Detective and mystery stories', 'Fiction'} | PG10067 | |
THE POWER AND THE GLORY
By GRACE MACGOWAN COOKE
Author of "Mistress Joy," "Huldah," "Their First Formal Call," etc.
WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS BY ARTHUR I. KELLER
1910
TO HELEN
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. THE BIRTH OF A WOMAN-CHILD
II. THE BIRTH OF AN AMBITION
III. A PEAK IN DARIEN
IV. OF THE USE OF FEET
V. THE MOCCASIN FLOW... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
Out of the shadows that hoarded the further end of the room came a woman
with a little bundle in her arm which had evidently created the
necessity for the borrowed cradle.
"Laurelly," the nurse hesitated, "I wouldn't name it to ye whilst ye was
a-sufferin,' but I jest cain't find the baby's clothes nowhars. I've
done ... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
"Consadine's a poor provider," she said plaintively, alluding to her
absent husband. "Maw said to me when I would have him that he was a poor
provider; and then he's got into this here way of goin' off like. Time
things gets too bad here at home he's got a big scheme up for makin' his
fortune somewhars else, and out h... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
Uncle Pros had taken the cradle to a back door to get the last of the
evening sun upon his task. One would not have thought that he could hear
what the women were saying at this distance, but the old hunter's ears
were sharp.
"Never you mind, Laurelly," he called cheerfully. "Wrop the baby up some
fashion, and I'll hi... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
She was not an old woman, but already stiff and misshapen by toil and
the lack of that saving salt of pride, the stimulation of joy, which
keeps us erect and supple. Her broad back was bent; her hands as they
shifted the infant tenderly were knotted and work-worn. Mavity Bence was
a widow, living at home with her fath... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
"She's a mighty pretty little gal," he repeated Mavity Bence's words.
"She's got the Passmore favour, as well as the Consadine. Reckon I
better be steppin' over to Vander's and see can I borry their cow. If
it's with you this time like it was with the last one, we'll have to
have a cow. I always thought if we'd had a ... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
And so this one of the tribe of borrowing Passmores wore her own
clothing from the first. No borrowed garment touched her. She rejected
the milk from the borrowed cow, fiercely; lustily she demanded--and
eventually received--her own legitimate, unborrowed sustenance.
Perhaps such a beginning had its own influence upon... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
What is it in the sweeping dignity of these pointed, oval,
parallel-veined leaves, sheathed one within another, the clean column of
the bloom stalk rising a foot and a half perhaps above, and at its tip
the wonderful pink, dreaming Buddha of the forest, that so commands the
heart? It was not entirely the beauty of the... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
Now as she tramped she was conning over her present plans. Again she saw
the cabin at home in that pitchy black which precedes the first
leavening of dawn, and herself getting up to start early on the long
walk. Her mother would get up too, and that was foolish. She saw the
slight figure stooping to rake together the ... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
That was it; borrowing--borrowing--borrowing till they were known as the
borrowing Passmores and became the jest of the neighbourhood.
"No, I couldn't stand it," the girl justified herself. "I had obliged to
get out and go where money could be earned--me, that's big and stout
and able."
And sighingly--yet light-hearte... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
Johnnie dropped her bundle and caught up the child, crushing the warm,
soft, yielding little form against her breast in a very passion of
tenderness.
"Deed and double I couldn't," she whispered back. "Sister's goin' to
earn money, and Deanie shall have plenty of good things to eat next
winter, and some shoes. She shan... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
The sun was westering; the Gap began to be in shadow, although the point
at which she sat was well above the valley. The girl was all at once
aware that she was tired and a little timid of what lay before her. She
had written to Shade Buckheath, a neighbour's boy with whom she had gone
to school, now employed as a mec... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
For himself, the young man was a prevalent type among his people. Brown,
well built, light on his feet, with heavy black hair growing low on his
forehead, and long blackish-gray eyes, there was something Latin in the
grace of his movements and in his glance. Life ran strong in Shade
Buckheath. He stepped with an indep... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
"Oh, say it. Speak out," urged Shade hardily. "You mean that all us
chaps had cut out and left the old man, and there wasn't a cent of money
to pay anybody, and no one but Pros Passmore would 'a' been fool enough
to do such hard work without pay. Well, I reckon you're about right. You
and me come of a mighty poor nati... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
It was Johnnie's first view of a big valley, a river, or a city. She had
seen the shoestring creek bottoms between the endless mountains among
which she was born and bred, the high-hung, cup-like depressions of
their inner fastnesses; she was used to the cool, clear, boulder-checked
mountain creeks that fight their wa... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
"I reckon they're blest--they got plenty of money," returned Shade, with
the cheap cynicism of his kind.
"So many houses!" the girl communed with herself. "There's bound to be
a-many a person in all them houses," she went on. One could read the
loving outreach to all humanity in her tones.
"There is," put in Shade cau... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
Along the edge of the road at this point, for safety's sake, a low stone
wall had been laid. Setting down her bundle, Johnnie leaned upon this,
and shared her admiration between the valley below and these beautiful,
interesting newcomers. Her bonnet was pushed far back; the wind ruffled
the bright hair about her foreh... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
"I'm sorry," he said, presenting it to Johnnie with exactly the air and
tone he had used in speaking to the lady who was with him in the car.
"If I had seen it in time, I might have saved it. I hope it's not
much hurt."
Buckheath addressed himself savagely to his work at the machine. The
woman in the auto glanced unea... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
Buckheath stood gazing at her sarcastically.
"Come on," he ordered, as she held back, lingering. "They ain't no good
in you hangin' 'round here. That was Mr. Gray Stoddard, and the lady
he's beauin' is Miss Lydia Sessions, Mr. Hardwick's sister-in-law. He's
for such as her--not for you. He's the boss of the bosses dow... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
"I didn't name no man," she said mildly. "I don't reckon anybody's goin'
to give me things. Ain't there the factory where a body may work and
earn money for all they need?"
"Well, I reckon they might, if they was good and careful to need
powerful little," allowed Shade.
At the moment they came to the opening of a smal... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
"Them that works don't get any more for it," retorted Shade harshly.
"What's the little ones goin' to the mill for?" Johnnie questioned,
staring up at him with apprehensive eyes.
"Why, to play, I reckon," returned the young fellow ironically. "Folks
mostly does go to the mill to play, don't they?"
The girl ran forward... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
The road which wound down from the heights ran through the middle of the
village and formed its main street. Across the ravine from it, reached
by a wooden bridge, stood a pretentious frame edifice, a boarding-house
built by the Gloriana mill for the use of its office force and
mechanics. Men were lounging on the wide... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
A man with a round red face and a bald pate whose curly fringe of
grizzled, reddish hair made him look like a clown in a pantomime,
motioned them with a surly thumb toward the back of the house, where
clattering preparations for supper were audible and odoriferous. The old
fellow sat in a splint-bottomed chair of extr... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
Johnnie ran and fetched and carried, as though she had never done
anything else in her life, intent on the one task. She was alive in
every fibre of her young body; she saw, she heard, as these words cannot
always be truthfully applied to people.
"Did Shade tell you anything about Louvania?" inquired the woman at
leng... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
"No, you ain't a-goin' to," Mrs. Bence said hospitably, pushing her into
a seat. "If you start in to work in the morning, like I reckon you will,
you ain't got no other time to get acquainted with the gals but right
now. You set down. We don't take much waitin' on. We all pass things,
and reach for what we want."
In t... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
"Virge was a great beau in his day," continued Pap, reminiscently. "He
liked to wear good clothes, too. I mind how he borried Abner Wimberly's
weddin' coat and wore it something like ten year--showed it off fine--it
fitted him enough sight better than it ever fitted little old Ab. Then
he comes back to Wimberly at the... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
"Air ye wedded?" he challenged suddenly.
She shook her head and laughed.
"Got your paigs sot for to git any one?" he followed up his
investigations.
Johnnie laughed more than ever, and blushed again.
"How old air ye?" demanded her inquisitor. "Eighteen? 'Most nineteen?
Good Lord! You're a old maid right now. Well, don... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
When supper was over Johnnie was a little surprised to see the tall
woman approach Pap Himes like a small child begging a favour of a harsh
taskmaster.
"Can't that there new girl bunk with me?" she inquired earnestly.
"I had the intention to give her Louvany's bed," Pap returned promptly.
"As long as nobody's with you... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
"Miss Lyddy she ain't as young as she once was, and the boys has quit
hangin' 'round her as much as they used to; so now she has took up with
good works," the girl on the bed explained with a directness which Miss
Sessions would not perhaps have appreciated. "Her and some other of the
nobby folks has started what they... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
But Mandy was too tired to stay awake to marvel over that. Her rhythmic
snores soon proved that she slept, while Johnnie lay thinking of the
various proffers she had that evening received of a lamp to her feet, a
light on her path. And she would climb--yes, she would climb. Not by the
road Pap Himes pointed out; not b... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
"We're all right," she heard a well-remembered voice reply. "You go
ahead--we'll be there before you."
The slim, gray-clad figure in the seat beside him laughed softly and
fluttered a white handkerchief as the last car went on.
"Now!" exulted the voice. "I'll put on my goggles and cap and we'll show
them what running ... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
One would have said that to the daughter of such the close cotton-mill
room with its inhuman clamour, its fetid air, its long hours of
enforced, monotonous, mechanical toil, would be prison with the torture
added. But Johnnie looked forward to her present enterprise as a soldier
going into a new country to conquer it.... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 | |
"It's lots prettier out here than it is in the house," she returned
smilingly, when Mavity Bence offered to get her a chair. "I do love to
be out-of-doors."
"Huh," grunted Mandy with her mouth full of biscuit, "I reckon a cotton
mill'll jest about kill you. What makes you work in one, anyhow? I
wouldn't if I could hel... | The Power and the Glory | Cooke, Grace MacGowan | 1863 | 1944 | ['en'] | 139 | {'Mills and mill-work -- Fiction', 'Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Social classes -- Fiction', 'Women -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction', 'Domestic fiction', 'Social problems -- Fiction', 'Psychological fiction', 'Working class women -- Fiction'} | PG10068 |
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