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Their glances travelled past Silent as if they were telling over and over to themselves the stories of those many men to whom Tex Calder had played the part of Fate. The leader turned back to Shorty Rhinehart. "Now tell me what he had to say about the coin." "Hardy says the shipment's delayed. He don't know how long." "How'd it come to be delayed?"
Thus, at five in the evening, concluded the most brilliant battle that had ever till then been fought at sea. Captain Calder was immediately sent off with the despatch, and arrived in London on the 3d of March.
"Oh no, of course not; where should we all be?" said Vavasor. "It's you and me, Grindems," said Maxwell. "D parliament, and now let's have a rubber." They played till three and Mr Calder Jones lost a good deal of money, a good deal of money in a little way, for they never played above ten-shilling points, and no bet was made for more than a pound or two.
"You're more likely to lose twenty-five per cent.," said Hilda. "I'll have some more tea, please." Mrs. Lessways was quite genuinely scandalized. "You needn't think I shall be easy with those Calder Street tenants, because I shan't! Not me! I'm more likely to be too hard!" "You'll be too hard, and you'll be too easy, too," said Hilda savagely.
Through this rocky and sombre defile, and by the side of the brawling Calder, which dashed swiftly past him, Nicholas took his way. The hawks were yelling overhead; the rooks were cawing on the topmost branches of some tall timber, on which they built; a raven was croaking lustily in the wood; and a pair of eagles were soaring in the still glowing sky.
However, he bundled me out, and as I went I heard him telling his servant to go to bed, because, though he expected a visitor, he would admit the visitor himself." "Well!" said Dawson, "and who was the visitor?" "I do not know," answered Calder.
"He's no beauty, at any rate; but he's a great match, I suppose?" "Oh, perhaps it isn't true." "You speak as if you wished it wasn't. I've heard about Mr. Wentworth from Victor Sutton you know who I mean?" and Mrs. Marland proceeded to give some particulars of Calder Wentworth's career. Meanwhile that gentleman himself was telling Agatha Glyn a very humorous story. Agatha did not laugh.
His son, Alexander Stirling Calder, born in Philadelphia in 1870, is also a sculptor of note, and was acting chief of the Department of Sculpture, Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1913-1915. Robert Tait MacKenzie, born in Ontario, Canada, in 1867, son of Rev. William Mackenzie, a graduate of Edinburgh, has created several groups of athletes in action of great force and beauty. Dr.
Calder drank his brandy-and-soda, and slowly that question forced itself more and more into the front of his mind. Would the woman over in Ireland understand? He rose from his chair as he heard Colonel Dawson's voice in the mess-room, and taking up his letter, walked away to the post-office.
A French squadron consisting of fifteen ships, fell in with the English fleet commanded by Admiral Calder, who had only nine vessels under his command, and in an engagement, which there was every reason to expect would terminate in our favour, we had the misfortune to lose two ships.
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