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"One black shot by Frances. "MUNROE AND POLICE. Two blacks shot and others wounded. "The following from Lloyd's deposition: 'We fired on them; I have no doubt some were killed; there were between forty and fifty natives. "BY PERSONS UNKNOWN. A native of the Coligan tribe killed by white persons. "MESSRS. WEDGE AND OTHERS. Three natives killed and others wounded.
"I have been intending to do so, and shall get one shortly, but I haven't yet selected it." "And in the meantime you have been getting along without any?" "A gold-mesh bag is not an indispensable article; I have several bags of other styles, and I'm in no especial haste to purchase a new one." Miss Lloyd's manner had taken on several degrees of hauteur, and her voice was incisive in its tone.
The fact is, he was occupied with matters more weighty and important than either looking after or vexing me. As the chief butler on Col. Lloyd's plantation, his duties were numerous and perplexing. In almost all important matters he answered in Col. Lloyd's stead. The overseers of all the farms were in some sort under him, and received the law from his mouth.
But Jim Tenny, his mouth set, his black brows scowling, his hard grasp on Eva's arm, pushed straight through the gathering crowd until they came to Clarkson's stables at the rear of Lloyd's, where he kept his horse and buggy for he lived at a distance from his work, and drove over every morning.
But in my secret heart, I confess, I felt glad of this. I was glad of anything that would keep even a shadow of suspicion away from this girl to whose fascinating charm I had already fallen a victim. Nor was I the only one in the room who dreaded the mere thought of Miss Lloyd's connection with this horrible matter. Mr. Hamilton and Mr.
Lloyd's method differs wholly from ordinary insurance. Instead of insuring vessel and cargo with a single company or man the owner puts his case before Lloyd's, and any member can then write his name underneath for any reasonable part of the risk.
While he inhaled the odor of tar, introduced into the room shortly before his arrival, he examined colored engravings, hung on the walls, which represented, just as at Lloyd's office and the steamship agencies, steamers bound for Valparaiso and La Platte, and looked at framed pictures on which were inscribed the itineraries of the Royal Mail Steam Packet, the Lopez and the Valery Companies, the freight and port calls of the Atlantic mail boats.
She moved her head with a flurry of nods; she waved her hand; she even kissed it to her. "Bow to Mis' Lloyd, Ellen," said her grandmother; and Ellen ducked her head solemnly. She remembered what she had heard the night before, and the sleigh swept by, Mrs. Lloyd's rosy face smiling back over the black fringe of dancing tails.
Then Lloyd's gaze wandered from the airy structure of chiffon and flowers down Gay's back to her waist-line. "Mercy, child!" she exclaimed. "You've lost your belt. Every one of those three safety-pins is showing, and they each look a foot long!" Gay's hand flew wildly to the back of her dress, but she felt in vain for a belt under which to hide the pins.
The former, having given up the command of Col. Lloyd's sloop, was now keeping a store in that town. Cut off, thus unexpectedly, Capt. Anthony died intestate; and his property must now be equally divided between his two children, Andrew and Lucretia. The valuation and the division of slaves, among contending heirs, is an important incident in slave life.
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