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"Heart's dearest, this is mighty good of you!" said Jim huskily. Pen did not answer, but she put her hand up and smoothed his hair back from his forehead. Jim seized her fingers and carried them to his lips. "Sweetheart," he said brokenly, "how am I going to bear it without you or or anything. Oh, Pen, let's go back to Exham and begin all over again!"
He lay back, with tightly closed eyes, while Braden counted the package of five hundred dollar bank-notes. "There are fifty thousand dollars here, grandfather," said the young man huskily. "'Pon my soul, they are more honest than I imagined. Well, well, the world is getting better." "What shall I do with this money, sir? You shouldn't have it lying around loose with all these—"
Orme has given neither the one nor the other. "Mr. Orme, do you remember Dick Draper, who was your boss carder, and who lives in a little house behind your mansion? Do you remember that he worked for you ten or fifteen years, and that you discharged him because he would not leave the Union?" "Yes, I remember him. Why?" answered Orme huskily. "I will tell you why.
He looked straight before him, his face grave and set. "Is it worth while?" he said in a low voice. "Some other time " "Why not now?" she asked. "We can catch her quite easily." The moment had come for him to tell her. "Not now," he said, huskily. "I have something to tell you, Maude; something you ought to know before before you make Miss Heron's acquaintance."
If you kiss your mother every time you come into the house or leave it, you will still have all you want for your sweethearts when you get 'em. Begin to-night when you go home. Will you?" "Yes, sir," promised the Potter twins huskily. No word came from Asa. The Colonel looked at him. "And you?" he said. Asa swallowed convulsively. A tear glistened on the tip of his pale, thin nose.
Now don't pity me, my dear Bonpre, -don't pity me! " and he laughed a little huskily as the Cardinal took his hand and pressed it with a silent sympathy more eloquent than words, "We must all die, and if I am to go somewhat sooner than I expected, that is nothing to compassionate me for.
"I've got to go honey," he breathed huskily. "Cain't you say you forgive me before I leave? I know I ain't fitten fer the likes of you; but when I come back from this here raid I'm a-goin' to take some money out of the bank and git you whatever you want. Look-a-here; see what I've done," and he showed a little book in his hand, and what he had written in it.
The retribution is at hand," and stooping swiftly down, he lifted the tiny cup brimming to his lips. "Go you," he said, huskily, "to the sea-shore. I have an errand elsewhere."
"Edgecombe," said the commandant, rather huskily, as the two officers left the hospital, "I am glad mighty glad that we didn't lose Darrin today. We are going to need him in the Navy of tomorrow!" "Sir, the brigade is formed," reported the brigade adjutant, the next day, as the midshipmen stood in ranks, ready to march into the mess hall. "Publish the orders," directed the cadet commander.
Tearing the sheet from the notebook, he passed it to Captain Strawn, who read it, frowning, and then nodded. "Doc Price has done all he can here," Strawn whispered huskily. "Wants to know if you'd like to speak to him before he takes the body to the morgue."
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