Kuypers to go
upstairs to wash himself, and he, with good feeling,
which he showed all the evening, gladly took himself out
of the way, and so, as Tom returned from showing him to
his room, the parlor was filled with "those God made
there," as the little boy used to say, and with none
beside.
"Now tell us all about it, dear papa," cried Tom.
"I was trying to tell your mother. But there is not
much to tell. Poor Mr. Kuypers had travelled all the way
from Colorado, the minute he heard I was in trouble.
Yesterday he bought the `Scorpion' in the train, and
found the Committee was down on us. He drove here from
the station as soon as the train came in. He missed you
here, and drove by mistake to Trinity. That made
him late with us, and so, as the service had begun, he
waited till it was done."
"Well!" said Bev, perhaps a little impatiently.
"But so soon as we were going out he touched me, and
said he had come to find me, in the matter of the Rio
Grande vouchers. Do you know, Eliza, I can afford to
laugh at it now, but at the moment I thought he was a
deputy of the Sergeant-at-Arms?"
"There!" screamed Tom, "I said he was a deputy-marshal!"
"I said, `Certainly;' and I laughed, and said they
seemed to interest all my friends. Then he said, `Then
you have them? If I had known that, I would have spared
my journey.
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