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Fitz, hand me the map." A diligent search revealed the fact that the map had been left at the office, and so the colonel proceeded without it, appealing now and then to Fitz, who leaned over his chair, his arm on the table. "Befo' I touch upon the financial part of this enterprise, Major, let me show you where this road runs," said the colonel, reaching for the casters.
"I'll tell you, Oscar," said Harry, coloring a little. "Your father is a rich man, and lives handsomely. I haven't any clothes good enough to wear on a visit to your house." "Oh, hang your clothes!" said Oscar, impetuously. "It isn't your clothes we invite. It's yourself." "Still, Oscar " "Come, I see you think I am like Fitz Fletcher, after all. Say you think me a snob, and done with it."
Fitz Hugh saluted, sprang into his saddle and galloped away. A few minutes later the whole column was plodding on silently toward its bloody goal. To a civilian, unaccustomed to scenes of war, the tranquillity of these men would have seemed very wonderful.
Captain Fitz Roy found no bottom with a line 7200 feet in length, at the distance of only 2200 yards from the shore; hence this island forms a lofty submarine mountain, with sides steeper even than those of the most abrupt volcanic cone.
They passed through the court-yard, Fitz carrying his hat like a gentleman and a man of the world, and into the dark passage that led to the famous elevator. "Your mother's smart," said Eve. "Can't you think of anything but how smart people are?" "When I'm grown up," she said, "and am smart myself I'll think of other things, I dare say." "Can you work the lift yourself?
Before I could reply Fitz raised his finger, looked at me significantly over the rims of his spectacles, and said: "With your permission, Colonel, the Major and I will divide the remaining twenty-five thousand between ourselves." Then seeing my startled look, "I will give you ample notice, Major, before the first partial payment is called in."
"Take me with you," insisted the other, "and let me ask him a question or two that any honorable man could answer. They don't call him the Unspeakable Perk for nothing, Miss Polly." "It's just because they don't understand his type. Nor do you, Fitz, and so you mistrust him." "I understand that you've shown more interest in him than in any one you know," said the other miserably.
"I will hunt him up;" and Fitz hurried down to Klutchem's office in the hope of either intercepting the challenge or of pacifying the object of the colonel's wrath, if by any good chance the letter should have been delayed until the morning. In ten minutes he returned with the mystifying news that Mr.
"I should imagine, from what I have seen of Agatha, that the child is quite capable of taking care of herself." "Yes," answered the fond mother, "she is intelligent. But a girl is so helpless in the world, and when I am gone I should feel happier if I knew that my child had a good husband, such as Fitz, to take care of her."
The little woman looked from one to the other in a dazed sort of way, and her eye rested on Fitz. "What shall I do, Mr. Fitzpatrick? It seems to me a grave step to sell any part of the estate." Fitz blushed at the mark of her confidence, and said that with the royalty clause he thought the proposition a favorable one. "And you, George?" turning to the colonel. The colonel bowed his head.
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