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This division, as it stood, was composed of two squadrons; that of Rodgers himself, and that of Commodore Stephen Decatur, the latter having assigned to him immediately the "United States," the "Congress," and the "Argus." There belonged also to Rodgers' particular squadron the "Essex," a frigate rated at 32 guns.
Now whereas it appertains to the tribunes to report the suffrage of the people to the Senate, they cast the lot for this office with three silver balls and one gold one; and it fell upon the Right Worshipful Argus de Crookhorn, in the tribe of Pascua, first tribune of the foot.
Mellish gave them every assistance, but nothing was found. As the four men walked back together to the Argus office, McCrasky was very indignant. "We will expose the police to-morrow," he said. "They evidently gave Mellish the tip." "I don't think so," said Thompson. "We will say nothing about it." "You forget yourself, Mr. Thompson. It rests with me to say what shall go on the local page.
"You relieve me immensely, Miss Wales," he said. "I was quite sure you were not an editor of the 'Argus, because you seemed so totally unfamiliar with the machinery of literary ventures; and so I supposed, or at least I feared, that Miss Watson had come to speak for herself." Betty flushed angrily. "Why, Mr. Blake, do I look " "No, you don't in the least," Mr. Blake interrupted her hastily.
During the time that passed between the news of peace, and that of its ratification, an uneasy and mob-like disposition, more than once betrayed itself. Three impressed American seamen had been sent in here from a British ship of war, since the peace. They were on board the Pelican, in the action with the American ship Argus, when fell our brave Captain Allen.
How I detested him, and by contrast how godlike appeared my refined, polished, proud young lover! At length Cuthbert wrote to me, entrusting the letter to a college chum Gerbert Audré, but Peleg's Argus scrutiny could not be baffled, and again I was detected.
Those below, without firewood, on the bitter rim of Crater Lake, heard from the driving obscurity above them a weird voice chanting: "Like Argus of the ancient times, We leave this modern Greece, Tum-tum, tum-tum, tum, tum, tum-tum, To shear the Golden Fleece."
They were talking to a goatherd there, when an old hound that lay in the dust-heap near by pricked up his ears and stirred his tail feebly as at a well-known voice. He was the faithful Argus, named after a monster of many eyes that once served Juno as a watchman. Indeed, when the creature was slain, Juno had his eyes set in the feathers of her pet peacocks, and there they glisten to this day.
So Violet roamed in and out of the house, in this languid weather, and took up a book only to throw it down again, and went out to the court-yard to pat Argus, and strolled into the orchard and leaned listlessly against an ancient apple-tree, with her loose hair glistening in the sunshine just as if she were posing herself for a pre-Raphaelite picture and no one took any heed of her goings and comings.
One of the others is Christy's, and one is that sweet Miss West's she writes poetry, you know, and is on the 'Argus. Wasn't it lovely of her to pin it on me?" "I should think anybody would be glad to have you wear their pin," said Helen loyally, if ungrammatically. "But to think the society wanted me!" said Betty in awe-struck tones.
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