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Her voice was low and gentle and distinctly feminine, yet it brought to him again that haunting sense of resemblance which the first vision of her had caused. "Miss Lawton," he replied, quietly. "But Miss Lawton is not here." The girl's surprise was unfeigned. "I have an appointment to meet her here at this time. She may perhaps have been detained.
Lawton's she was suffering with a violent headache, and, going to her room, she remained in bed for three days. "Mrs. Lawton was very kind. She sat by her bedside and gave her a detailed account of her own trials. She was a daughter of a Union man, and had never lost her veneration for her country and the old flag.
He knew that Madge and the houseboat party were alive and well, and, for the time being, this was news enough. It took them nearly twenty minutes to get back to the spot where Madge had told Miss Jenny Ann to wait for her. When they reached the end of the pier there was no chaperon, no Lieutenant Lawton, no Jeff! The place was almost entirely deserted.
It was expected that Lawton would capture El Caney about eight or nine o'clock in the morning, and pursue the retreating enemy, by the way of the Du Cuorot house, toward Santiago.
The colonel figured that it would be an easy thing for the insurgents to come as near to the city as they cared to now, for Lawton and Wheeler were far away in the interior after Aguinaldo, and the troops in Manila were quietly drilling, and eating, and sleeping, with no thought of doing anything else.
Sims in fervent expletive. My father had withdrawn his hand. He was holding in it his silver snuff box, which he tossed carelessly on the table, where it slid among the wine bottles. "Why strain so at a gnat, Lawton," he continued in his old conversational manner. "Though one can kill a sparrow with a five pound shot, is it worth the effort?
Once it was Lawton, tall, bronzed, commanding, taciturn but fluent when he did speak or Kent, or Sumner, or little Jerry Carter himself. And once, a soldier stepped into the circle of firelight, his heels clicking sharply together; and Crittenden thought an uneasy movement ran around the group, and that the younger men looked furtively up as though to take their cue from the Colonel.
The heat was scorching. She could just catch a glimpse of her chum at work on the inside. The wind was blowing so that the smoke poured into the house. The danger was not so much from the fire as that Phil and Lieutenant Lawton would be stifled by the thick smoke. Jimmy Lawton could feel the waves of heat entering the house. "Please clear out, young fellow," he urged Phyllis.
However, I don't feel that I can, in honor, violate the confidence of the dead by giving any details just now even to you and Miss Lawton of matters which have not yet been fully substantiated by the attorneys. I know only from Mr.
Unless you wish to bring ruin upon yourself, and unwelcome notoriety and possibly an official inquiry into her sanity upon Miss Lawton, you will not repeat this incredible accusation. Only my very real sympathy for her has enabled me to listen with what patience I have to the unparalleled insolence of this charge, but you are going too far.