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The thing finally capsized and went to pieces, and they managed to reach a little cattle shack, two miles south of town. They've found Lanier's striker, too what's left of him." By this time Kate had come down-stairs, and with pallid face was listening dumbly to her father's words. She seemed hardly to heed the presence of the strangers.
His eyes were fiery, his lips were quivering in his wrath. "Indeed, Sergeant Fitzroy," began the girl rebukefully, "those were Lieutenant Lanier's orders." "Hang Lieutenant Lanier's orders! No stripling sub can give such orders in this regiment. How dare you delay there? Go, you townskip, or I'll kick you through the " But now with blazing eyes Dora Mayhew threw herself in front of him.
And thus it happened that two storm-beaten soldiers presently shoved their way through Lanier's back gate and banged at the kitchen door. Nobody answering, they presently entered, passed through that deserted apartment, and, hearing voices further on, the corporal ventured into the dark hallway leading through the little frame house, now fairly quivering in the blast.
The tragedy that had taken place had shaken his soul. He felt in a way responsible. "If the doc ain't busy now, I reckon Dave could use him," Bob said. "I reckon he needs a li'l' attention. Then I'm ready for grub an' a sleep twice round the clock. If any one asks me, I'm sure enough dead beat. I don't ever want to look at a shovel again." "Doc's fixin' up Lanier's burnt laig.
A couple of scoundrels, mentioned in Lanier's letter, and named Frodsham and Lambe, men suspected of sorcery, offered to give evidence to the effect that Lady Purbeck had paid them to help her to bewitch both Purbeck and Buckingham. On the 16th of February, 1625, Buckingham wrote to Coventry, the Attorney-General:
The ambulance body was snowed under somewhere and nowhere in sight. The driver, a civilian employed in the Quartermaster's Department, had totally disappeared. Scott, the paymaster; Thomas, his clerk; and Rafferty, Lanier's soldier servant, or "striker" as then called, were still half dazed Rafferty, indeed, so much dazed that no coherent words had yet escaped him.
Suspecting that possibly this timid woman hesitates to go with them, at such late hour, to a strange place, there to await the uncertain coming of her husband, they devise other plans to obviate this objection, finally deciding upon the one resulting in the arrests. William Dodge had received Pierre Lanier's letter sent to Paris.
"But my husband and my baby have kept me rather busy, you see, and so I've put it off and off until just lately I began to look about and make inquiries. And then by good luck I learned of you from my husband's partner." "You're Joe Lanier's wife, aren't you?" he asked. "His second," she said with emphasis.
"I don't know," repeated Lanier, positive and beginning to rejoice. "Suppose the colonel tells me to explain that," began Curbit, but Doctor Schuchardt set his foot down summarily. "Here," said he, "this thing's got to stop;" and he came to the door in his shirt sleeves, leaning half way out, with one hand behind him. "Lanier's in a highly nervous and excited state.
It must have been after twelve, for orderly call and mess had sounded in front of the adjutant's office, when one of the hospital attendants came floundering up the row from Lanier's, and made his way to Sumter's door, a little note in his hand. He would wait, he said, for an answer, and the maid bade him step inside while she ran up-stairs. Mrs.
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