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Therefore, I shall halt with my forces a short march from Fort Garry, and when I have lulled suspicion, I will make a dash, in the night, trusting to the suddenness and vigour of the onset for success." Such a proceeding Scott strongly approved, and Major Boulton found that the young man's knowledge of the rebels' condition would be of the greatest value to the enterprise.
"You must be mistaken Dick," remarked Garry. "Those three were dangerous men, but I don't believe they could have escaped from the jail in Portland." "Nevertheless," said Dick, "I am absolutely certain that those are the three. There are any number of ways in which they might have gotten away. There is even a chance that they have been tried by this time, and have been released."
"Bedad, he's gitting on illegantly," replied Garry, sniffing at a soup plate containing some steaming compound which Weston, the steward, had just brought in, and directing that worthy to place it in front of our poor invalid guest.
The latter might have stood for a portrait of a pirate of the eighteenth century, with a drooping, red mustache and bristling beard. The reputation of this monster, however, was far less terrible than that of any of the other three, certainly far less than Garry Cochrane. This was a lean fellow with bright black eyes, glittering like a suspicious wolf's.
She had followed Warren into the yards to talk to him. She saw the whole affair from a distance and then went back through the waiting room of the station and called the taxi in which you had placed Warren's body." "Then Garry will be freed?" cried the girl hopefully: "His plea of self-defense will acquit him?" "Undoubtedly," retorted Carroll. "Don't you think so, Leverage?"
Brian received the offer with a glance of blank dismay and Garry with difficulty repressed a smile. Kenny's fashionable wardrobe, portentous in all truth, had an unmistakable air of originality about it at once foreign and striking. There were times when he looked irresistibly theatric and ducal. Kenny repeated his willingness to lend his wardrobe. "Of course you would," said Garry.
So is a wood and a river." "So," supplemented Kenny with the calm, unhurried air of one who scores an unexpected point, "is a postmark on a letter." Startled, Garry reached for the envelope. Kenny put it in his pocket. "An obscure village in Pennsylvania," he explained with dignity, "where your wood and your river will likely have definite individuality. I shall go there."
Garry took counsel with himself as to what was the best course to follow. He could stay where he was till the card game broke up, and then steal down the stairs and back through the cellar passageway, or he could make his way down the front stairs and try and let himself out of the front door. There was one drawback to this.
The Major changed his pipe from his right hand to his left, and, stretching the former across the table, sympathetically pressed that of the Ensign. "Do, Major," quoth Garry, changing his flank movement for a direct attack "do consent to make yourself and me happy; do empower me to negotiate for our all going to church to-morrow." My grandfather spoke not.
Kenny looked at his watch. It was not yet eight o'clock. "Garry," he said, "is that you?" "Yes. Who's calling?" "It's I Kenny." "Kenny!" Garry's astonished voice came clearly over the wire. "Kenny, where on earth did you go?" he demanded. "And what's the matter? Is anything wrong? What are you doing up in the middle of the night?" Kenny snorted.
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