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In case Wade got back to Toronto before his new secretary's return from this jaunt Kendrick had enclosed a note with the letter from Nat Lawson, telling the railroad president where he had gone and why. It was well that he had. For rapid events were to intervene and the first of these happened within the next five minutes.
Fancy that jaunt to Barville was too much for me; though, to tell the truth, I'm a rotten poor sleeper anyhow. I wake up at the slightest noise in the night, and, having some nerves of my own, usually get a case of heart palpitation, which is deucedly unpleasant. Then perhaps I won't go to sleep again for two hours or more. I envy any fellow who snoozes like a log."
He never abused it, waiting for a final dash, always returning from a jaunt in reasonable time, and earning the confidence of his captors. When over seven years had passed, he found, in the foothills of the Latorre Mountains, a large, heavy lump of dark metal, which he scraped with his knife and recognized as gold.
But Paula found a space in which casually to give the news to Dick that she was running away for the afternoon on a jaunt up to Wickenberg to the Masons. "Of course I don't know when I'll be back you know what the Masons are. And I don't dare ask you to come, though I'd like you along." Dick shook his head. "And so," she continued, "if you're not using Saunders " Dick nodded acquiescence.
Here Captain S. remained to await his passage back to Canada; not much disposed to try such a jaunt of pleasure again, I suspect, and Lieutenant L., taking a canoe for himself with a view of prosecuting his scientific researches more at leisure than our go-a-head mode of travelling admitted, left us also.
Plenty of time though. When I need it I'll get it." My skeptical laugh must have annoyed him. "Then you'd better get busy if it's true that we sail to-morrow." "Hope you'll have a pleasant trip." "Thanks. Sorry we can't ask you, captain. But there really isn't room and our party is full. No doubt you'll be starting on a little jaunt of your own soon?" "Yes, to-morrow, too, as it happens.
It was on a September evening, during a jaunt on South Mountain, that he met a stubby, silent man, of goodly girth, his round head topped with a steeple hat, the skirts of his belted coat and flaps of his petticoat trousers meeting at the tops of heavy boots, and the face ugh! green and ghastly, with unmoving eyes that glimmered in the twilight like phosphorus.
He will occupy a very high place someday. I suppose Kate will' um-um-um 'Oh yes, and if Mrs. De Lacy wishes you to visit her you might accept' um-um um 'and tell Kate that I should be delighted if she could accompany me on a little jaunt through the Eastern States. I have asked permission of her father, but she wrote you herself about that, didn't she? um-um-um And then listen to this!
Some days after this jaunt, my father endeavoured to find whether the plants with which the island was covered would be useful in making potass. He arranged with a person in Senegal to hire for him some negroes, and a canoe to gather the ashes of the plants after they were burned.
Philips. Then after Milton had been leading this severe quiet life for about four years, a strange thing happened. One day he set off on a journey. He told no one why he went. Every one thought it was but a pleasure jaunt.
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