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Devine gazed into the shadows, but he saw nothing beyond the rows of dusky trunks. "Where's he gone?" "That," said Weston, "is naturally just what I don't know. It's up to us to find out." Then he briefly related his conversation with Grenfell, and the two looked at each other. There was just light enough to show the anxiety in their faces.
"I wish you'd take it, and do the best you can for David, Captain Will. I'll leave it with you." Captain Bartlett shook the pelt out, and admired its lustrous beauty. "It's a good one! David's lads were in luck when they caught that fellow. I'll do the best I can with it," he promised. "They'll take the pay in provisions and other necessaries," suggested Grenfell.
"He said he had sent an Indian to wait for letters or messages at the nearest railroad settlement. You have those men in your clutches. You could break them if you wanted to." "Well," laughed Stirling, "on the whole I'm more disposed to make them hand over a moderate sum, and to let them off after that, on condition that in the future they keep their hands off the Grenfell Consolidated."
A strike of really rich ore would, he knew, send the Grenfell Consolidated up, and he had worked since morning in a state of tense anticipation, for the signs had been propitious. He contrived to sit still for some minutes, and then stood up resolutely. "You may wait as long as you like," he said. "I'm going back to the adit now."
But although compelled to remain inactive for a time, the admiral continued his work by sending off Captain Grenfell with a Portuguese brig, which he had seized in the river, to Para, the last stronghold remaining to the Portuguese, to follow there the example that he had set him, by reporting the capture of Bahia and Maranham, and announcing the coming of a great fleet and demanding immediate surrender.
"Hugh ought to marry," Mrs. Grenfell observed. "Why did he come back?" inquired another who had just returned from a prolonged residence abroad. "Was there a woman in the case?" "Put it in the plural, and you'll be nearer right," laughed Mrs. Grenfell, and added to Honora, "You'd best take care, my dear, he's dangerous."
In spite of a few days' rest at my old home, and the stimulus of a Grenfell clan gathering in London, my wife and I were both in need of something which could direct our minds from our problems, and Boxing Day found us bound for Paris, Turin, Milan, and Rome.
They are always a menace to cod traps, for should a berg drift against a trap, that will be the end of the trap forever. Fishermen watch their traps closely, and if an iceberg comes so near as to threaten it the trap must be removed to save it. A little lack of watchfulness leads to ruin. "The trap's well set," said Skipper Tom, when Doctor Grenfell inquired concerning it.
And there's the pity. If Grenfell could only be given some of this waste to take to them! From the beginning this thought troubled Doctor Grenfell. And in winter when the ice shuts the whole coast off from the rest of the world, he turned his attention to efforts to secure the help of good people the world over in his work.
A pot of steaming tea and an appetizing meal was on the table in a jiffy. It was luxury after the long days on the trail and Grenfell sat down with anticipation of keen enjoyment. At the moment that Grenfell seated himself the door opened unceremoniously, and an excited fisherman burst into the room with the exclamation: "For God's sake, some one come! Come and save my brother's life!
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