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The shadow of Harney had not yet reached out to the edge of the hills. "Hullo! The kids!" said Fay suddenly. Two pedestrians emerged from the lower gulch and bent their steps toward the camp. As they came nearer, Bennington, with a gasp of surprise, recognised the Leslies.
My son, never surrender once to injustice, for if you do you will establish a precedent, and you will go on surrendering to the end of time. I leave the shops to you. There is but one thing I demand, and that is that you shall never sell the shops; Bennington or nothing. If you have difficulties with the men, weigh them on the smallest scales. You will be master there you alone.
In what manner he had been saved, and how he came to be in Cuba, made a sad mystery to them; but in due time the veil was lifted, and they heard the whole story. The landlord of the Sea Cliff House was in the office when his son returned. All the guests had gone to walk on the cliffs, and the house was nearly empty. Mr. Bennington, as usual of late, was sad, perplexed, and worried.
Simply, I know that the gambler always loses, and the banker always wins, in the end. Common sense told me to quit, and I did. I brought my letter of credit home practically intact." "You used to play poker," dubiously. "Poker isn't gambling. It's surreptitiously lending money to your friends." "You were always good at definitions," sighed Bennington.
"I see," said Bennington. The afternoon was well enough occupied in repairing to some extent the ravages of the brief storm. A length of the corral had succumbed to the flood, many valuable tools in the blacksmith shop were in danger of rust from the dampness, and Arthur and his wife had been completely washed out. All three men worked hard setting things to rights.
"Thaine's going to stand by me," pretty Jo Bennington declared, pushing Leigh boisterously aside. Josephine, the week-old baby Mrs. Aydelot had gone to see one day nine years ago, had grown into a big, black-eyed, rosy-cheeked girl who lorded it over every other child in the neighborhood.
As Bruce Bennington had feared, there were now two factions in the school, those who were for and against Tom. And it seriously interfered with the work of the eleven. For there were some who hated Sam cordially, and as he was the quarterback of the team there were internal dissensions, and such ragged playing, in consequence, that Elmwood lost many games she should have won.
"We began on the Journal together. You will not tell me what your plan is, then?" "I'd rather not, for honestly, I can not see how it would better the case." "It might be worth while to give me a chance." Bennington re-read Warrington's note. Then he studied the frank blue eyes of the reporter. "Miss Ward, you may go," he said to the stenographer.
Bennington became very impatient indeed, but he tackled Le Conte industriously, and did well enough until he tried to get it into his head why various things happen to glaciers. Then viscosity, the lines of swiftest motion, relegation, and directions of pressure came forth from the printed pages and mocked him. He arose in his might and went forth into the open air.
"I don't want to go to the surgeon. He mauls me about to death. I shall be better soon." "On deck, all who are able to do so!" added Leavitt. "Bennington, you will ask Dr. Winstock to attend to those who are hurt, and report to the first lieutenant." But it did not appear that any one was so much injured as to require the services of the surgeon, for the whole party went on deck at the order.
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