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The two men slipped by unseen with their horse, some eighth of a mile distant from the camp, and having seen his pard to safety, Lucas Langley bade him farewell, with many good wishes for his success, and started upon his return. Mounting then, Andrew Seldon set off on his lonely and perilous mission.
The three men at the end of the room glanced at each other; this evidently was not what they expected. Steps sounded on the stairs and Peters hurriedly entered. "The old man's comin'," he said. Mr. Langley, the superintendent of the station, had been in the company's employ for years. He had been in charge of the Cape Cod station since it was built, and he liked the job.
They were two in number; one was a man's card, one a woman's. The man's card bore the legend 'Sir Rupert Langley, the woman's was merely inscribed 'Helena Langley. The address was a house at Prince's Gate. The Dictator looked up surprised. 'Sir Rupert Langley, the Foreign Secretary? 'I suppose it must be, Hamilton said, 'there can't be two men of the same name.
Langley was extremely voluble to Whitson that night over his new acquaintance. Whitson listened with his usual impassiveness, and then asked Langley how it was that "an old loafing nigger," as he expressed it, had impressed him so remarkably. Langley replied that he did not quite know, but he thought the effect was largely due to the man's teeth.
On the afternoon of the morning on which Sir Rupert's card was left at Paulo's Hotel, various guests assembled for luncheon in Miss Langley's Japanese drawing-room. The guests were not numerous the luncheons at Langley House were never large parties. Eight, including the host and hostess, was the number rarely exceeded; eight, including the host and hostess, made up the number in this instance.
I guard those shells by night, and another man does nothing but guard them by day." "Where are they stored?" was Josie's next question. "In the room just back of Mr. Colton's office the big main building." "So Mr. Colton is still the head of the company?" "He's Vice-President and General Manager, and he knows the steel and ammunition business from A to Z," asserted Joe Langley. "Mr.
Since Langley, on May 6, 1896, flew a motor-propelled tandem monoplane for a minute and an half, without a pilot, and the Wright Brothers in 1903 succeeded in flying a bi-plane with a pilot aboard, the universal opinion has been, that flying machines, to be successful, must follow the structural form of birds, and that shape has everything to do with flying.
As they came from the Capitol at the close of their conference, Langley and Denning fell behind for a moment. "What a wonder the man is!" exclaimed Denning with enthusiasm. "Sick as he is, and with all these other troubles on him, he's bucked up and buffaloed this whole thing into shape. He forgets nothing!"
"God gimme the grit to stick it out," begged Haw-Haw Langley in an agony of desire. "God lemme see how it comes out. God lemme watch 'em fight. One of 'em is goin' to die may be two of 'em nothin' like it has ever been seen!" The rain shifted, and the heart of the storm rolled far away.
In Johnson's Works , xi. 201, it is stated that 'it was the philosophy of the book that Burke thought well of. Mr. Langley, I have little doubt, is the Mr. L of the following passage in Johnson's letter, written from Ashbourne on July 12, 1775: 'Mr. L and the Doctor still continue at variance; and the Doctor is afraid and Mr. L not desirous of a reconciliation.
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