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He was too wrought up now to sit calmly down in the peace and quietude of the giants, and digest the annual reports Sinclair had given him. He hastened back to the mill-office and sought Sinclair. "At what hour does the logging-train leave the Laguna Grande Lumber Company's yard for our log-landing in Township Nine?" he demanded. "Eight a.m. and one p.m. daily, Bryce."
Do you want more proof than this violent transgression of the Company's orders upon that occasion that some corrupt motive must have influenced him? My Lords, it is necessary for me to state the situation of the family, that you may judge from thence of the corrupt motives of Mr. Hastings's proceedings. The Nabob Jaffier Ali Khân had among the women of his seraglio a person called Munny Begum.
By and by the bubble burst, and young Lamb was transferred to the East India Company's office, and being promoted was making nearly a hundred pounds a year. And Mary sewed and borrowed books and toiled incessantly, but was ill at times. People said her head was not just right she was overworked and nervous or something!
March had attended a meeting of the land company's board, which did not adjourn until very late, but he simply had to take a long walk in the starlight afterward, and even when that was done he stayed up until an absurd hour writing a description of the glorious Southern night to a friend in New England who was still surrounded by frozen hills and streams.
"Bullet went right through the head and came out the peak!" It was time that Captain P was back to his own command. As we came to his company's line word was just being passed from sentry to sentry: "No firing. Patrols going out." It was midnight now. "We'll go in the other direction," said Captain P when he had learned that there was no news. This brought us to an Irish regiment.
After breakfast they marched to the Hudson Bay Company's store, knowing as they did that in Canada there are only two places for a traveller to go who wants anything the great company or the parish priest; and then, having explained to the factor their dream, they were told "that beyond, beyond some days' journey" oh! that awful beyond, which for centuries has stood across the path of the pioneer, and in these latter days confronts the sportsman and wilderness-lover "that beyond some days' journey to the north was a country such as they had dreamed up Temis-camingue and beyond."
Would the poor boy they had all known him as a boy who had once cherished the notion of going into the army, have to wear a railway company's coat and a station-master's cap? How funny it sounded! Well, not altogether funny. There were Dora and May crying at the bare anticipation.
Nor," he added, significantly, "can it be told who killed Wesley Boone until all the shots fired in Mrs. Atterbury's chamber are accounted for." Then he narrated rapidly, but tellingly, the substance of what has been already set down in this history the facts taken from Jack's letters and attested by the corroboration of Barney, Dick, and the company's officers.
Perjury and wrong are universal wherever the Courts of the Company's Service have been established in India. Of their taxation we hear enough to-night. It is clumsy and unscientific.
There was still a demand for more weavers, and eventually a large vacant tract was marked out as a 'Weavers' Town, under the name of Chindadre Pettah the modern Chintadripet. In order to attract weavers, houses were built at the Company's expense, which weavers were permitted to occupy as hereditary possessions.
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