How about that "committee of one" self-appointed at town meeting?
How about the blatant person who had declared HE could have gotten the appropriation?
What had the "committee" done?
Nothing! nothing at all! He had not even written to the Capital--so far as anyone could find out--much less gone there.
So, at Simmons's and the sewing circle, and after meeting on Sunday, Cy Whittaker was again discussed and derided.

And this week's Breeze, out that morning, contained a sarcastic editorial which mentioned no names, but hinted at "a certain now notorious person" who had boasted loudly, but who had again "been weighed in the balance of public opinion and found wanting." Miss Dawes did not seem pleased with the captain's nonchalant attitude toward the Breeze and its editorial.

She tapped the braided mat with her foot.
"Captain Cyrus," she said, "if you intended doing nothing toward securing that appropriation why did you accept the responsibility for it at the meeting ?" Captain Cy looked up.

Her tone reminded him of their first meeting, when she had reproved him for going to sleep and leaving Bos'n to the mercy of the Cahoon cow.
"Well," he said, "afore this Thomas business happened, to knock all my plans on their beam ends, I'd done consider'ble thinkin' about that appropriation.

It seemed to me that there must be some reason for Heman's comin' about so sudden.