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Many important townspeople were chatting in the corridor the innumerable Swetnam family, the Stanways, the great Etches, the Fearnses, Mrs Clayton Vernon, the Suttons, including Beatrice Sutton.
Raymond, "and Clayton and Ernie will want your attention; besides, fires will go down if not constantly mended, this cold evening." In a flash I saw the advantage her prolonged absence would give me, unless, indeed, she had become my confederate, so I beheld her depart with a feeling of relief which reacted in the next moment to positive helplessness and terror as the bolt was drawn, behind her.
In your name I have already thanked him, and in your name I have accepted the office which he has been at some pains to obtain for you." I looked towards the stout gentleman, and bowed in grateful acknowledgment. "Tell him the duties, Clayton," requested my new-found influential friend. "Mr Bombasty," proceeded the minister, "feels a warm interest in your welfare.
Clayton and Sir Henry Bulwer in July, 1850, which made it perfectly clear that, in the understanding of both governments at that time, the claims of Great Britain to Belize or British Honduras were not affected one way or the other by the treaty. In a later dispatch, August 17, 1883, Lord Granville briefly touched upon Mr.
In August he went abroad, and some time about the middle of the month while he was in London, he received a cable from Graham. He had been commissioned a first lieutenant in the infantry. Clayton had been seeing war at first hand then, and for a few moments he was fairly terrified. On that first of August the Germans had used liquid fire for the first time, thus adding a new horror.
The slight noise had awakened Jane Porter at the same time, and as she saw the hideous tableau she gave a shrill cry of alarm, and at the same instant the sailor lurched forward and fell upon Clayton. Like a wild beast his teeth sought the throat of his intended prey, but Clayton, weak though he was, still found sufficient strength to hold the maniac's mouth from him.
Clayton had taken the first train for Chicago; but not before Podmore had third-degreed him into abject fear. No, Clayton had had no hand in it; that was certain, and with that once established, the identity of the arch-thief remained a mystery which baffled investigation especially when the situation called for the utmost circumspection.
Northrup; but somehow he could not bring himself to say one word to her about Jessie Bain. As he boarded the evening boat for Clayton there was not a more miserable man in all the whole wide world than Hubert Varrick. He paced the deck moodily. The thousands of little green islands upon which the search-light flashed so continuously, had little charm for him.
"Come," she said, "it's time to go to the 'Hermitage." And we got into the phaeton hitched to a gentle old horse which Dorothy drove. We entered the "Hermitage" and saw Douglas and the company and the hero of New Orleans. I presented Douglas to Mrs. Clayton and Dorothy. Then we went forward to greet Jackson.
He dropped his voice yet lower so that by no possibility could any one of the men upon the sidewalk hear him, and ended, "Jimmie Clayton sent me." "An'," asked the Kid coolly, "who the hell is Jimmie Clayton?" "He's a poor little devil who is in need of a friend, if he's got any," Thornton returned. "And he said you were the only friend he had here." "Maybe I am an' maybe I ain't."
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