United States or Solomon Islands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Can I see Dr. Warren?" he suddenly asks. "I don't know. I am not directly in charge, but I will ask Hallett, who is up at the room now." "Do; and come to my room and let me know as soon as you can." In less than five minutes the officer is down at his door. "I declare I wish you would come up. It seems more than ever to me that there's a blunder somewhere.
Simon's Island, on the coast of Georgia. The black soldiers were sent down on the Ben De Ford, Captain Hallett. On arriving, Trowbridge was at once informed by Commodore Goldsborough, naval commander at that station, that there was a party of rebel guerillas on the island, and was asked whether he would trust his soldiers in pursuit of them.
The afternoon passed very slowly; but at length the sun set, and darkness fell quickly. They waited a couple of hours, to allow the village to get comparatively quiet; then they crept forward, and cut two great bunches of bananas from the first tree they came to and, returning to the forest, sat down and ate a hearty meal. "I feel very much better," Hallett said, when he had finished.
His alarmed protests fairly tumbled over each other. "Why why, Captain Hallett," he cried, "really I I... ah... What you ask is quite impossible. Oh, very much so ah very. You see... Well, really, I... Captain Hallett, this entire matter was supposed to be a secret, an absolute secret. I am surprised and ah shocked to learn " The captain's big paw was uplifted as a signal. "Sshh! Heave to!
But one small group, of which Hallett was the principal member, instead of reviling the head-master, was expending its wrath upon a fellow-boy. "The cowardly young toad! Had to do with it, you say? I should think he had, indeed! A good deal more than we've any idea of." "Well, we know he did the window." "We do, and he shall have the pleasure of paying for that.
It seemed to explode as it struck, to fly into powder which filled the gorge between Flat top and Hallett peaks. The wind had drifted the snow over the edge of the precipice where some of it had clung. Farther and farther it had crept out, overhanging the abyss, its great weight slowly bending the cornice downward until it had at last given way.
I hope you have made up your mind to go through scarlet fever, or measles, Hallett?" "Don't chaff. It is no laughing matter." "No? I thought you took it quite in that light, this morning. Well, you see we have all got poultices on; and the orderly will make one for you, at once. My face is bigger than it was this morning, and what it is going to come to, I cannot imagine.
"Nor with the others, for the matter of that," returned Jack, looking straight into Hallett's face. Hallett moved away with a short grunt, for want of an answer. Then, remembering one, he turned back. "What about young Frere? What did you think of that?" "I'd have stopped him if I could. But he didn't mean any harm.
Hallett had left the house at once, though Lisle earnestly begged him to stay till the funeral was over. The lawyer arrived on the morning of the funeral. "I have taken upon myself, sir," Lisle said, "to make all the arrangements for the funeral, seeing that there was no one else to do it."
I hope all the different troops will pull well together for, with a force of half a dozen nationalities, it is almost certain that there will be some squabbling." "I should hardly think that there would be any trouble, Hallett.
Word Of The Day