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But Mary Leavenworth, rising to her feet, looked judge and jury calmly in the face, and, without raising her voice, giving it an indescribably clear and sharp intonation, replied: "No; I have neither suspicion nor reason for any. The assassin of my uncle is not only entirely unknown to, but completely unsuspected by, me." It was like the removal of a stifling pressure.
But alas, in thus planning for my own safety, I forgot one thing, and that was the dangerous position in which I should thus place Mary Leavenworth as the one benefited by the crime. Not till the inference was drawn by a juror, from the amount of wine found in Mr.
It differs from the usual receipt in that the one is "in full payment" and the other "on account." Receipt no bill before it is actually paid. Some one has translated the letters "C. O. D." into "Come omejitly Down." The Collect on Delivery usually accompanies goods sent by express. A receipt for a partial payment: Leavenworth, Kansas.
It had been agreed that the two men should follow in a week, in time to take the last steamboat going down the river in the fall, from Fort Benton, before the closing of navigation for the season. Mr. Bryant, unknown to the boys, had written home to Dixon directing that money be sent in a letter addressed to Charlie, in care of a well-known firm in Leavenworth.
"What?" almost screamed Baker, "only three o'clock?" They favored each other with a cold, hard look and each seized his own oars again. So they rowed through the bitter morning hours. Leavenworth and other towns were saluted, crowds always cheering on the banks, and the following afternoon, almost frozen, they landed at Kansas City, where for two miles the bank was a solid mass of humanity.
She survived the ordeal, however, and at four p.m. went to drive with "that Leavenworth boy" in the finest turnout could produce. Aunt Pen then came off guard, and with a sigh of satisfaction subsided into a peaceful doze, still murmuring, even in her sleep, "Propinquity, my love, propinquity works wonders."
He smiled when Captain Luke Denham, the Train Boss, introduced Billy as an assistant guide, and said sneeringly: "I guess he won't be of much use ten miles away from Leavenworth, captain." Billy made no reply, but kept up considerable thinking, and set to work at his duties.
Something about him reminded her of Captain Leavenworth, and she instinctively shrank from him. But Harry Temple had no mind to talk to any one but Marcia that evening, and he presently so managed it that he and she were ensconced in a corner of the room away from others. Marcia felt perturbed.
Leavenworth's opinion, a prodigious eye for color. As a customer, Mr. Leavenworth used to drop into Roderick's studio, to see how things were getting on, and give a friendly hint or so.
Before he reached the portals of the territory, however, his services again being demanded in Kansas, Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston, then at Fort Leavenworth, was appointed to the command of the army of Utah, and during the interim Colonel Alexander assumed command of the forces.
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