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My name is Harriet Campbell, and my papa is Craig V. Campbell, of the Hercules Wrought Steel Company in the City. Won't you have a chair?" The little convalescent and the arctic explorer shook hands with great solemnity. "I'm so pleased to meet you," said Bennett. "I haven't a card, but my name is Ward Bennett of the Freja expedition," he added.
"Say," blurted out the informer, "do you know Kennedy and Jameson are back?" "Back?" cried the crooks. "Yes, they didn't go. Changed clothes with the porters. I just heard Miss Dodge telling Mr. Bennett." Clutching Hand eyed him keenly, then seemed to burst into an ungovernable fury. Quickly he began volleying orders at the valet and the others.
"I beg pardon," he ejaculated, "I'm very sorry. That was very awkward of me." Jennings, who had been busy about the portieres at the doorway, started to pick up the fallen knight. Some of the pieces were broken, and the three gathered about as the butler tried to fit them together again as best he could. "Too bad, too bad," apologized Bennett profusely.
And so a little after supper Mitch whistled for me, and we went to the Bennett house and fooled around waiting. Now Mr. Bennett had traded his farm for a store in town and was now a merchant prince, my pa said. And he had built him a wonderful stone house on a hill with a big yard around it.
It would indeed be a singular coincidence should we again fight on the old ground. Our battery, being the only company of our present division that had participated in the former battle, was the center of attraction, and many a tough "yarn" was told by our men of their exceeding valor at that time. Lieutenant Bennett here left us to take command of a battery in Virginia.
Bennett was not the general to explain his actions to his men. But he had not hesitated a moment. However, Adler was full of another subject, and soon broke out with: "You know, sir, there's another expedition forming; I suppose you have heard an English one. They call it the Duane-Parsons expedition. They are going to try the old route by Smith Sound.
"Do I need to tell you," remarked Bennett, "that your life is rather more to me than any other consideration in the world? Do you suppose when the lives of every member of my command depended upon me I was any less resolved to succeed than I am now? I succeeded then, and I shall succeed now, now when there is much more at stake. I am not accustomed to failure, and I shall not fail now.
"But " Bennett hesitated, then: "Pitts, I want you to take my place here if I go away. Have a nurse if you like, but I shouldn't feel justified in leaving the boy in his condition unless I knew you were with him continually. I don't know what your practice is worth to you, say for a month, or until the boy is out of danger, but make me a proposition. I think we can come to an understanding."
Hurriedly, Elaine poured forth to her aunt and Bennett the story of the medium's visit and the promised message from her father in the other world. Aunt Josephine, who was not one easily to be imposed on, strongly objected to Elaine's proposal to accompany Savetsky to the seance chamber, but Elaine would not be denied. She pleaded with her aunt, urging that she be allowed to go.
Of those executed, Denmark Vesey, Peter Poyas, Ned Bennett, Rolla Bennett, Batteau Bennett, and Jesse Blackwood were hanged July 2; Gullah Jack and one more on July 12; twenty-two were hanged on a huge gallows Friday, July 26; four more were hanged July 30, and one on August 9.
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