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My boy, which he's one in a thousand though he was that weakly he was hardly fit for work he brought the little 'uns, five of 'em, all under fourteen, to this place. 'We shan't be known at Longcross, father, he says, 'and I'll work for 'em all till you're out. So he come here. And yesterday they come to me in the jail, and they says, 'Bennett, we find you're innocent.
But Bennett had already signed a bond to the owner, agreeing to pay $100,000 cash, and to mortgage the premises for the remaining $400,000.
He was the only person involved that cared anything for the mind, will or intention of the dead man, and his entire legal battle was not that he should get what Mr. Bennett had willed him, but that the designs of his friend should not be frustrated: not merely with regard to the fifty thousand he offered to distribute that but with regard to the money for poor students. We missed Mr.
When the ice cleared out of the lakes and river, we put our outfit in a Lake Bennett boat and started for Dawson. We had a good team of dogs, and of course we piled them on top the outfit. That Spot was along there was no losing him; and a dozen times, the first day, he knocked one or another of the dogs overboard in the course of fighting with them.
"Why what's the matter?" he asked, solicitously. "A another letter from the Clutching Hand!" she exclaimed breathlessly. "Mr. Bennett was calling on me, when this note was brought in. We both thought we'd better see you at once about it and he was kind enough to drive me here right away in his car." Craig took the letter and we both read, with amazement: "Are you an enemy of society?
If he doesn't, ye'll go to the Military Orphanage at the Regiment's expense. I'll allow him three days' grace, though I don't believe it at all. Even then, if he fails in his payments later on ... but it's beyond me. We can only walk one step at a time in this world, praise God! An' they sent Bennett to the Front an' left me behind. Bennett can't expect everything. 'Oah yess, said Kim vaguely.
He ran to Bennett's chair, drawing it back for him, and as soon as Bennett had seated himself circled about him with all the pride and solicitude of a motherly hen. He opened his napkin for him, delivered him his paper, and pushed his cup of coffee a half-inch nearer his hand.
One antagonist there was who knew neither fear nor forgetfulness, and he attacked Bennett again and again. Bennett returned his blows, and then made most admirable "copy" of the assault. The last encounter between the two is so plainly characteristic of Bennett's style that I quote his description in his own words.
William R. Nelson, who was to establish a really great newspaper in Kansas City, was still a citizen of Ft. Wayne. James Gordon Bennett, the elder, seemed then to me, and has always seemed, the real founder of the modern newspaper as a vehicle of popular information, and, in point of apprehension, at least, James Gordon Bennett, the younger, did not fall behind his father.
Hignett, who had been a chafing auditor of this interchange of courtesies, "is beside the point. Why did you dance in the hall, Samuel, and play the orchestrion?" "Yes," said Mr. Bennett, reminded of his grievance, "waking people up." "Scaring us all to death!" complained Mr. Mortimer. "I remember you as a boy, Samuel," said Mrs.
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