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If the man he wanted was among these he had changed beyond recognition. In the end he was forced to ask Gabilonda plainly if he would not take him to see David Henderson, as he knew a man in Arizona who was an old friend of his, and he would like to be able to tell him that he had seen his friend. Henderson was breaking stone when O'Connor got his first glimpse of him.
Most men are lucky if they get, like Henderson, a running mate." "I see," said Jack, who knew something about the Henderson household, "your idea of a pair is that they should go single."
There was now quite a crowd around Bob, his mother, and the captain. Mrs. Henderson did not know what to do. Up to now Bob's pranks had been bad enough, but to play this trick on the minister, and at the annual donation supper, where nearly every person in the village was present, was the climax. She felt that she had been much humiliated.
At last there came a dawn when the regiment charged, to cover operations elsewhere. They left their ditch, and half-way across No Man's Land John Henderson it is not his name, but it will do as well as another John Henderson was hit. He lay out there for a day and a night. A brave officer bandaged him and passed on to others.
Manifestly Henderson had, in one way or other, been suspiciously concerned in the affair. He deponed that, on the night of August 4, Gowrie bade him and Andrew Ruthven ride early to Falkland with the Master, and return, if the Master ordered him so to do, with a message. At Falkland they went into a house, and the Master sent him to learn what the King was doing.
And if further evidence were needed it was to be found in the fact that the starboard bulwarks almost as high and solid as those of a man-o'-war were pitted with bullets, "a long way closer together than the raisins in a sailor's plum-duff," as Henderson caustically remarked.
‘Suppose,’ said the Comptroller, ‘Henderson goes back from that deposition?’ ‘Then his testimony is the worse,’ said Mr. Bruce. ‘Then it were better to keep him alive,’ said the Comptroller; but Mr. Bruce insisted that Henderson would serve James best by dying penitently. These were alleged by Mr. Mr. Bruce said that Mar might believe, ‘as he were there to hear and see.’
As he was in the act of gathering himself for a spring, Daylight was upon him, and with such fearful suddenness as to crush him backward and down. Olaf Henderson, receiving his cue from this, attempted to take Daylight unaware, rushing upon him from one side as he stooped with extended hand to help Doc Watson up. Daylight dropped on his hands and knees, receiving in his side Olaf's knees.
The first step taken by Alexander was to send for the Hottentots, and, after again reproving them for their former behavior, he asked who were ready to volunteer to proceed with him, as he had decided to leave the wagons with Major Henderson, and proceed on horseback the short distance of his journey which remained to be accomplished.
Ben looked down from the top of the step-ladder where he was adjusting some last bit of ornament. "Never, Polly," he said, his eyes meeting hers. "That was so beautiful," cried Polly. "And we had it in our 'Provision Room, and Mrs. Henderson brought my bird over, and the other things the last minute, and" "I had to," broke in Mrs.
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