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Collins and Blake were seated at a table there, labouring with a telegram in cipher. "What's the matter now?" demanded Collins, sharply, as he looked up and saw Vernon's disordered face. For answer, Vernon took from his pocket a folded paper and tossed it on the table. Collins picked it up, opened it, and read its contents. "Well?" he said, looking up with a sigh of relief.
Collins; "but Governor Sayle has despatched her to Virginia for provisions, of which we were beginning to run short. The Port Royal has not been heard of, so 'tis feared she went down in the storm." He went on to tell me of the new settlement which had been already laid out at a place called Kiawah, a very fair and fruitful country, which Heaven grant I may one day see!
"If this is the note you wrote those Rushford girls, I must say I think you've done a mighty wise thing to get it back. It was a dangerous thing to have lying around. Have you had a quarrel?" and he grinned a little maliciously. "Collins," said Vernon, coldly, "you have the poorest conception of good taste of any man I know, and I know some awful bounders.
For a half hour the two detectives were entertained with gossip of the wealthy colony but when they left they were in possession of the life histories of Mrs. Collins, Collins and Ward. Out in the street Britz consulted his watch. "We've just got time to catch the eight-forty for New York," he said. "I guess we won't visit the Collinses to-night."
I decided it must have been either Dunn or Collins our two worthless Yale boys at the mine whom she had wanted to get rid of, and I felt better; for it would be easy enough to save her trouble by doing that myself. They might just have come back to La Chance like me, for all I knew, because Dudley had a trick of sending the men heaven knew where to prospect.
I remained untill noon when I again reimbarked and set out concluding that as Colter and Collins had not arrived by that time that they had passed us after dark the night of the 3rd inst. as Sergt Ordway informed me he should have done last evening had not the centinel hailed him. we continued our rout untill late in the evening when I came too and encamped on the South side about 10 miles below little dry river. on our way we killed a fat cow and took as much of the flesh as was necessary for us.
"Your father wouldn't indorse those unwise sentiments, I reckon and I'd hate to bet your husband would," he added audaciously, with a glance at Collins. "But I love to hear you say it, even though we never could be. You're a right game, stanch little pardner. I'll back that opinion with the lid off." "You should be a good judge of those qualities.
But the numbers of the popular books of the day, printed and sold, afford the most conclusive proof of the extent to which education is carried in the States. The readers of Tennyson, Mackay, Dickens, Bulwer, Collins, Hughes, and Martin Tupper are to be counted by tens of thousands in the States, to the thousands by which they may be counted in our own islands.
You could tell nothing by that." "She warn't here after she had gone away," said Miss Collins; "and that was jes' the time when I knowed all about it. I knowed about other people too." That was also the time after Evan had quitted Pleasant Valley. Yet Diana did not know why she could not keep herself from trembling.
Collins stepped backward, holding his left hand over his nose, and striking at Herman with his right. Then Verman hit him with the rake. Verman struck from behind. He struck as hard as he could. And he struck with the tines down For, in his simple, direct African way he wished to kill his enemy, and he wished to kill him as soon as possible. That was his single, earnest purpose.
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