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And, here is some Henry Grady, a prince among men, the leader of the new South, his thoughts like roots drinking in the riches of the North; his speech like branches dropping bounty over all the tropic states, seeming to be the one indispensable man of his section, but who in the midst of his career is smitten and, dying, left his pilgrim band in bondage.
Grady, when you came here before you said it was to warn me, but the next time you came you were going to begin to act. I'm all ready." "All right," said Grady, with a vicious grin. "Be as smart as you like. I'll be paid well for every word of it and for every minute you've kept me waiting yesterday and to-night That was the most expensive supper you ever ate.
As for Peterson, four or five times during his half-hour talk with Bannon at the office that evening, he braced himself to tell the boss what Grady had said, but it was not till just as Bannon was going home that it finally came out. "Have you seen Grady lately?" Pete asked, as calmly as he could.
Grady as he clapped a hand on Stuart's shoulder. "The thing is a hit and for once I've got a piece that I can take into town without tearing it to pieces and doing it over." Yet in his room afterward he paced the floor restively for a long while before he sought his bed. He was balancing up the sheets of his life to date.
Any further revelations of his past life which Altamont might have been disposed to confide to his honest comrade the chevalier, were interrupted by a knocking at the outer door of their chambers; which, when opened by Grady the servant, admitted no less a person than Sir Francis Clavering into the presence of the two worthies.
The bos'n had rushed along with his hurricane lamp, and shouted, 'She's away wi' it! He is a good fellow and very conscientious. I ordered steam on main engines, and the engine-room staff, with Hooke and Ninnis, turned to. Grady, fireman, was laid up with a broken rib.
But with superb courage, not only on their own part but with the assistance of their wives, sisters, and daughters, they made the desert land flourish and resurrected the country. This remarkable description of Grady, which I only outline, came as a counterpart to the triumphant epic of General Sherman.
As for the others, one of them owned to me that he had never been on any river before the Nile but the Thames at Putney, and his idea of a rapid was the tide rushing under the bridge." "But sure, sergeant, he can sing `Row, brothers, row, iligantly, he can," said Grady. "Ay, but he can't do it," replied the sergeant. "He ought to be in the water now.
The clock on the mantel-piece struck ten and half-past and was close to striking eleven before any one made a move toward retiring, excepting Mr. and Mrs. Nichols who had gone off to bed at eight-thirty. The Misses Dowd had joined the little company in the "parlour." He discussed books with Mrs. Pollock and Miss Miller, fashions with Miss Grady, politics with Mr.
"The voices in the hall wakened me, though I did not know what was the matter until just now." "Then you made no effort to find out?" inquired Grady, suspiciously. "I am alone here in the city," she answered, simply. "I was afraid to intrude." Throughout she gave the impression that she was strangely reticent about herself.
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