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Difference in views between the members of the firm on the questions of the day, and general hard times in the border cities, had broken up this firm. Hillyer was quite a young man, then in his twenties, and very brilliant. I asked him to accept a place on my staff. I also wanted to take one man from my new home, Galena.
'Something's up, or the sorrels wouldn't be driven like that. In a minute or two I made out Bill Craven, one of Haig's men, leaning forward in the seat of a road wagon, and laying on the whip. 'If Haig saw that! I thought. And so I " "Go on, please!" said Marion shrilly. But Smythe was purposely deliberate; for he saw Hillyer looking at her curiously.
The enemy, however, had taken the initiative. Just as I landed I met Captain Hillyer of my staff, white with fear, not for his personal safety, but for the safety of the National troops. He said the enemy had come out of his lines in full force and attacked and scattered McClernand's division, which was in full retreat.
Difference in views between the members of the firm on the questions of the day, and general hard times in the border cities, had broken up this firm. Hillyer was quite a young man, then in his twenties, and very brilliant. I asked him to accept a place on my staff. I also wanted to take one man from my new home, Galena.
The enemy, however, had taken the initiative. Just as I landed I met Captain Hillyer of my staff, white with fear, not for his personal safety, but for the safety of the National troops. He said the enemy had come out of his lines in full force and attacked and scattered McClernand's division, which was in full retreat.
But he had prospered in his profession; and then had died with amazing suddenness, leaving his estate in an almost hopeless mess. Robert Hillyer had tackled the problem, Robert, the alert, the busy, the supremely confident, the typical money-getter of the money-worshipping metropolis.
When appointed brigadier-general I at once thought it proper that one of my aides should come from the regiment I had been commanding, and so selected Lieutenant C. B. Lagow. While living in St. Louis, I had had a desk in the law office of McClellan, Moody and Hillyer.
"Oh, ho!" she exclaimed, laughing triumphantly, her little body swaying as she tripped, with low curtsies to Seth and Hillyer, who for the moment forget their animosity in wonder at this feminine diversion. "Beautiful! Gorgeous! Oh, splendid!"
There would be such talk, such a sensation! "It would be another matter if there were anything you could do," Hillyer went on. "But there isn't. And I know very well that Marion would send you back if you did go." That was true enough, on reflection; but it was a disappointment! "But Marion! There alone!" she said, making her last stand. "I shall be there," replied Hillyer.
If Marion had a secret he must guard it for her, whatever it might cost him. Yet now he needed help, and no one could help him but Huntington and his wife. Last of all, and not to be forgotten, he was the Huntingtons' guest. "How bad's he hurt?" asked Huntington. Hillyer shook his head dubiously. "It's impossible to say just yet. Doctor Norris fears that the pancreas is ruptured.
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