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"Well," continued Harryman, "only two possibilities can exist: the document was either genuine or false. If genuine, then it was an indiscretion on the part of a Japanese who betrayed his country to an English paper an English paper which no sooner gets possession of this important document than it immediately proceeds to publish its contents, thereby getting its ally into a nice pickle.
"Under our eyes," replied Harryman, smiling, "our eyes which carelessly overlook such things." Colonel Webster rose and offered Harryman his hand. "I have misjudged you," he said heartily. "I belong to your party from now on." "It isn't a question of party," answered Harryman warmly, "or rather there will soon be only the one party."
Harryman could not sleep, and joined the officer on duty on the bridge, where the slight breeze which came from the mountains afforded a little coolness. On board the Mindoro Parrington had found orders to take the relief guard for the wireless telegraph station to Mariveles the next morning.
In the reign of Charles I., the advowson and tithes were granted to two men, Thomas Ashton and Henry Harryman, and their heirs for ever, on the same conditions; but they are now again held by the Corporation, who pay out of the revenues to St Margaret's hospital £9, 16s.; to the churchwardens of Wimborne Minster, for the maintenance of the Etricke tomb, £1; and to the fellows of Queen's College, Oxford, to be spent in wine and tobacco on November 5th, yearly £2.
It is as if I were lying in the delirium of fever; my head burns and my thoughts always return to the same spot, boring and burrowing; I feel as though a horrible eye were fixed on me from whose glance I cannot escape. I feel that I may at any moment awake from the trance, and that the awakening will be still more dreadful." "You're feverish, Harryman; you're ill, and you'll infect others.
Harryman ignored this attempt to resume their recent dispute, and with head thrown back continued to blow clouds of smoke nervously into the air. "But seriously, Harryman," began the colonel again, "can you give any explanation?" "No," answered Harryman curtly; "but perhaps you will remember who was the first to furnish an explanation of the breakdown of the cable.
"When he was going to send a cablegram to Hong-Kong," added Harryman sharply. "To announce his arrival at Manila," remarked Colonel Webster dryly. "And the Hong-Kong papers had already published descriptions of the destruction caused by the seaquake, of the tidal waves, and the accidents to ships," came from another quarter.
He cleared his throat and repeated the question in a low tone of voice: "And if it was not genuine?" Harryman shrugged his shoulders. "Then it would be a trap for us to have us secure our information from the wrong quarter," said the colonel, answering his own question.
Colonel McCabe meditated silently. Then, as though waking up suddenly, he went on: "And the cable has not been working for six days " "Exactly," interrupted Parrington, "we have known nothing, either of the fleet or of anything else, for the last six days." "Harryman," said Colonel McCabe seriously, "do you think there is danger?
"Two regiments," said Webster, more to himself than to the others. And then, turning to Harryman, he asked briskly: "When are the transports expected to arrive?" "The steamers with two regiments on board left 'Frisco on April 10th, therefore he counted the days on his fingers they should be here by now." "No, they were to go straight to Mindanao," said Parrington. "Straight to Mindanao?"
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