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This castle was a place that I loved well, it is so old, having first been builded when the Romans were lords of the land; and is so great and strong that our bishop's castle of St. Andrews seems but a cottage compared to it. From the hill-top there is a wide prospect over the tower and the valley of the Vienne, which I liked to gaze upon.
And so the New York sailed out to sea, and Marguerite Andrews watched her from the pier until she had faded from view. As for Stuart Harley, the author, he sat in his study, wringing his hands and cursing his carelessness.
My wife told me she never once looked into it . She did not seem quite easy when we left her: but away we went! Mr. Nairne, advocate, was to go with us as far as St. Andrews. It gives me pleasure that, by mentioning his name, I connect his title to the just and handsome compliment paid him by Dr.
These were part of the stock that the rancher had sold to buyers at Kremmling, and which had been collected and held in the big, fenced pasture down the valley next to the Andrews ranch. The loss was not discovered until the cattle had been counted at Kremmling. Then they were credited to loss by straying.
Andrews was known to be a spy, and he, with seven of his men who could establish no connection with the Federal army in any branch of the service, was hanged. Six escaped, and made their way to the Federal lines. The rest were regularly exchanged. Perhaps those that were hanged deserved a better fate. They were brave to recklessness, and were engaged in the boldest adventure of the war.
"He talks proud enough," he thought; "he must be a relation of Jefferson Davis, from his airs." After the dispatcher had gone, Andrews whispered to George: "We ought to let the boys in the car know the cause of our detention and warn them that in case of anything going wrong in our plans they must be prepared to fight for their lives.
George began to explain to Andrews what he had heard at the station, and how he had disabled the telegraph. "You're a brick!" cried the leader, patting the boy approvingly on the shoulder; "and you have saved us from another scrape. But 'tis better to provide against any repairing of the telegraph and the sooner we cut a wire and obstruct the track, the better for us."
"God, I should think you'ld have had enough of that sort of thing.... I should think you'ld be sick of wanting to hurt people. You don't like pain yourself, do you?" Andrews spoke in spurts, bitterly, his eyes on the ground. "Ah think Ah sprained ma goddam ankle when Ah tumbled off the back o' the truck yesterday."
"You bet your pants I am, Andy.... An' so could you, poifectly well, if you'ld talk it up to 'em a little." "Oh, I wish to God I could. Not that I want to go home, now, but ...if I could get out of uniform." "I don't blame ye a bit, kid; well, next time, we'll know better.... Local Board Chairman's going to be my job." Andrews laughed. "If I wasn't a sucker...."
Andrews heard his crutch tapping on the pavement as he went away along the quai. "Jeanne," said Andrews, suddenly, "you'll come home with me, won't you?" "But you have a friend living with you." "He's gone to Brussels. He won't be back till tomorrow." "I suppose one must pay for one's dinner," said Jeanne maliciously. "Good God, no." Andrews buried his face in his hands.
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