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In a short compass, this work contains, not only statistical information, strictly so called, but also much information in natural history, the state of the arts and sciences, manners and politics. Voyage Historique et Pittoresque dans les Pays Bas, 1811-13. Par Syphorien. Paris, 1813. 2 vols. 8vo.
Just before reaching the Close he turned into a public-house; when he came forth the malicious smile was on his face, and he walked with the air of a man who bas business of moment before him. He admitted himself to the house. 'That you, Jo? cried Clem's voice from upstairs. 'Me, sure enough, was the reply, with a chuckle. 'Come up sharp, then.
Thornton's eyes went over, and in the lighted doorway fell upon Bas Rowlett sitting with his features schooled to a masked and unctuous hypocrisy, but back of that disguise the wounded man fancied he could read the satisfaction of one whose plans march toward success. His own teeth clicked together and the sweat started on his temples.
"Eh?" said Aaron; "what has the caustico that was intended for the frontiers of Belgium been clapped by mistake on the broad Pays Bas?"
"Ye come hyar ter hang ther wrong man, boys," he shouted, "but ther right man's hyar ther rope's hyar, an' ther tree's hyar! Hang Bas Rowlett!" There was a silence of grim tension over the room when the accuser's voice fell quiet after its staccato peroration of incitement.
He who knows where to look, or was born under a lucky star, may even see on these merry evenings a big Marine from Bas Obispo or a burly soldier of the Tenth howling some joyful song with six or seven little "Spig" policemen climbing about on his frame. At such times everything but real blood, flows in Panama. Her history runs that way.
Sir Hedley was made a member of the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee and with Kitchener helped to face England's huge problem of raising a volunteer army. How was it to be done? Hardly had the new War Chief warmed the chair in his office down in Whitehall, than Le Bas came to him with this suggestion: "The quickest way to raise the new army is to advertise for men."
But Bas Rowlett shook his head. "Not you, Sim," he gave assurance. "I'm goin' ter tek keer of you all right but when ther rest of 'em hev done what we wants, we hain't got no further use fer them riders. Atter thet they'll jest be a pest an' burden ter us ef they goes on terrifyin' everybody." "I don't no fashion comprehend ye, but I've got ter know whar I stands at."
Bas Rowlett sat down on an empty box and his shoulders sagged wearily. "Hit's Old Burrell's house he come ter," he admitted. "But yit he told me he'd done tuck hit fer a debt. I hain't knowed him long, but him an' me hed got ter be good friends an' ther feller thet shot him come nigh gettin' me, too. Es fer me I'd confidence ther feller ter be all right."
On the mantel ticked the small tin clock, which Bas Rowlett watched from the tail of a furtive eye. As Dorothy Thornton stood in gracious slenderness against the background of the lighted door with a nimbus about her head, she was all feminine delicacy and allurement.
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