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There was still a sickening odour of illuminating gas in the room, although the windows were now all open. Kennedy, with provoking calmness in the excitement, turned from and ignored Dr. Burnham. "Have you summoned Dr. Scott?" he asked Mrs. Martin. "No," she replied, surprised. "Should I have done so?" "Yes. Send Jame immediately. Mr. Prescott, will you kindly be seated for a few moments."
Lieutenant Colonel Burnham took the steamer "Fawn" at Norfolk, and while passing Coinjock, on the Albemarle and Chesapeake canal, they were fired into by guerrillas, who lay concealed near the shore. One was killed outright and several wounded. The remainder were taken prisoners, and the steamer was burned. The prisoners were marched to Elizabeth City, and turned over to the rebel authorities.
On the last day of May two hundred Lancers under the command of Major Hunter Weston, with Charles of the Sappers and Burnham the scout, a man who has played the part of a hero throughout the campaign, struck off from the main army and endeavoured to descend upon the Pretoria to Delagoa railway line with the intention of blowing up a bridge and cutting the Boer line of retreat.
"RALPH BURNHAM. By his next friend, SIMON CRAFT. Dated, Sept. 26, 1867." "Your Honor will notice that the petition is duly sworn to," said Sharpman, handing the paper to the clerk, who, in turn, handed it to the judge. There was a minute of silence. The lawyers were all staring at Sharpman in astonishment. Then, the judge spoke. "Mr.
Burnham backed away from it as from a fiery brand. "Oh, well!" he said, dashed, "if you're representing Kellogg" and Nat took care not to refute the implication "I I don't want to interfere. Only," he pursued at random, in his discomfiture, "I can't see why he sent you here." "I'd be ashamed to tell you," Nat returned with an open smile. "Better ask him."
Curtis will dismiss you for the rest of the day, and as you pass out you will each receive a silver quarter as a gift for good behavior." For a minute the boys were silent. It was too sudden a vision of happiness to be realized at once. Then one little fellow stood up on his bench and shouted: "Hooray for Mr. Burnham!"
He was searching in his hand-bag for something else. Finally he drew out a child's cap, a quaint little thing of velvet and lace, and laid it on the table. This, too, was grasped by Burnham with eager fingers, and looked upon with loving eyes. "Do you still think me wild?" said the old man, "or do you believe now that I have some knowledge of what I am talking about?"
In two hours and a half he had his family, himself, and his belongings on board the steamer, and had started on his half-around-the-world journey from Alaska to Cape Town. A Skagway paper of January 5, 1900, published the day after Burnham sailed, throws a side light on his character.
"Had a good many things that were new to you, I presume?" "Yes, sir, quite a good many." "Did you think you would like to go there to live?" "Oh, yes! I did. It's beautiful there, it's very beautiful. You don't know how lovely it is till you get there. I couldn't help bein' happy in a home like that, an' they couldn't be no nicer mother'n Mrs. Burnham is, nor no pirtier little sister.
Experts of the several great contracting companies hurried to the scene and were ready to deposit material and labor on the ground for the work of restoration. Daniel H. Burnham, a leading architect of Chicago, who had previously drawn plans for beautifying the city, was summoned to superintend the work.
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