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The attendant girls, entirely at ease, were trying to persuade the taller of the two Australians, whom his friend addressed as "Alex," to buy a flimsy lace nightdress "for his fiancée," readily pointing out that he would find no difficulty in getting rid of it elsewhere if he had not got such a desirable possession, when Peter heard an exclamation behind him.
Then she grew slowly better, and the doctors told her that she might live a good many years, but that she would have to lie on her sofa always, and be helpless, and a cripple. "Alex felt dreadfully when he heard this. He wanted to marry Cousin Helen just the same, and be her nurse, and take care of her always; but she would not consent.
He is then to proceed to join Lord St. Vincent. He has this moment made the signal for Gibraltar; I must therefore refer you to him for the state of Malta. The French must surrender in a few days. Their ships mean to slip out and trust to their sailing. Believe me, With true esteem and regard, My dear Sir James, very sincerely yours, ALEX. M. BALL. Sir James Saumarez, &c. &c.
And he knew the plan would succeed that, as Big Tony said, a hundred yards from the main-line track the old brick-yard siding embankment was washed out so that the rails almost hung in the air. "Dena we all say," went on Big Tony, "we alla say, Hennessy, he do it. We say we caughta him. See?" Again Alex glanced down, and with hope he saw that some of the Poles were hesitating.
Village gossip was in substance, that Mabel had given her love to a young frontiersman, by name Alex Bennet, who had an affection for her, so it was said, but as yet had made no choice between her and the other lasses of the settlement. What effect Mabel's terrible experience might have on this lukewarm lover, Helen could not even guess; but she was not hopeful as to the future.
"Well," said Alex, "I don't much feel like going back to camp without any meat." "Nor I. Let's wait here awhile and maybe the stag'll come out again." This indeed proved to be the case, for in a few minutes the smaller stag did show at the edge of the wood, offering a dim and very uncertain mark at a distance of several hundred yards. Rob began to prepare his rifle. "It's too far," said Alex.
They paused at this place for their first rest, and occupied themselves for a time figuring out, each according to his notion, a map of the country on ahead, which all admitted now was entirely strange to them. Alex and Moise agreed pretty closely in their description of the country below the Finlay, for they had friends who had made that trip numbers of times.
"And then there was the man on the horse, who told us of the slide in the cut across the river. He was the real one to save the Mail," said Alex, modestly. "I see you are as fair as you are ingenious," said the superintendent, smiling. "We'll look after them all, you may be sure. By the first express Mrs. Moore shall have two, instead of one, of the finest boilers money can buy.
"Much as usual," replied Peters. "Horringford is absorbed in things Egyptian, and Alex is on the warpath again," he added darkly. Miss Craven grinned. "What is it this time?" Peters' eyebrows twitched quaintly. "Socialism!" he chuckled, "a brand new, highly original conception of that very elastic term.
He now spent his leisure studying sound. During this period he made several discoveries in sound which were of some small importance. When he was twenty-one years of age he went to London and there had the good fortune to come to the attention of Charles Wheatstone and Alex J. Ellis.
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