The American Claimant

to get when they should find One-Armed Pete, and catch him, and prove him to be the right person, and extradite him, and ship him to Tahlequah in the Indian Territory. But there

in cooking a rabbit

started out to see what chance there might be to do something with it commercially. He did not have to go far. In a small old wooden shanty which had once been occupied as a dwelling by some humble negro family he found a keen-eyed Yankee engaged in re

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wer. What do y

ll it re

five cents, I

give for the ex

down; but I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll make it and

dream disappeared; no mon

his mind dropped it out to make room for further attempts to think out the most promising way to invest his h

ooming with glad excitement-working both these emotions successfully, sometime

solate house: death has smitten my last kinsm

ing on, put his arms about her and said-"You will bear u

p very wel

or well-meaning useless thing and no accoun

ful earl

to concentrate my mind upon affairs; I will ask our good friend here to

ady Gwe

daughter,

erry Sellers, are yo

ber your own dignity, be considerate also of mine. It were b

ell, I never! What am

ree; but in public it will be more becoming if your ladyship will speak to me as my

can't ever

e up to our altered position and submit w

against your commands yet, Mul-my lord, and it's late to begin no

rue wife! There, kiss

y wouldn't know Sally Sellers in it. It's too large for her; kind of like a che

her find fault

was born to it. She never got it from me, that's sure. And sending her

e four generations of what may be called American nobility. Castellated college-buildings-towers and turrets and an imitation moat-and everything about the place named out of Sir Walter Scott's books and redolent of royalty and state and sty

n-american pretentiousness. But send for the Lady Gwendolen-do; for I reckon the peerage regulations require

erskites? Remember

h, don't stare-it was a slip, and no crime; customs of a life-time can't be dropped in a second. Rossmore-there,

telegra

, of course, for if there are any other Sellerses there they'll not be able to claim it. And just leave her alone to show it around and make the most of it. Well, maybe she's

n. The Colonel grumbled something about its being "always out of order when you've got particular and especial use for it," but he didn't explain that one of the reasons for this was that the thing was only a

the late twins be embalmed by some St. Louis expert and shipped at once to the usurper-with bill. Then he drafted out the Rossmore arms and motto on a great sheet of brown paper, and he and Hawkins took it to Hawkins's Yankee furniture-mender and at the end of an hour came back with a couple of stunning hat

this society item in the evening pap

t earldom of Rossmore, third by order of precedence in the earldoms of Great Britain, and will take early measures, by suit in the House of Lords, to wrest the title an

re's commen

eckon. As like as not it wouldn't have occurred to anybody else to name this poor old rat-trap Rossmore Towers, but it just comes natural to him. Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can

earl's commen

dn't think of it before I wrote the usurper.