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As a magistrate, he could have immediately compelled the restoration of the bedding. The use of his name, however, answered the purpose, and the conjurer even offered to carry the articles for her to Platt's house. She so earnestly desired to keep him and her charge apart, that she preferred loading herself with the package.
Andrew's Bay. He agreed to make the portage for ten dollars, stating that the distance was about fourteen miles; and we in our turn promised to be ready to attend to the loading of the boats the next morning.
"Think I been loading you up with hot air? I was sent out to round you up " "Forget all that!" snapped luck. "I don't know as I enjoy having you fellows jump at the notion I'm a bank-robber or that if I had robbed a bank I would have come right back here and gone to work. What kind of a simp do you think I am, for gosh sake?
"What do the people say about him? What does your father say?" Tole shrugged. "He say not'ing," he said cautiously. He could not be induced to commit himself further in this direction. They built their raft, and loading up, started without untoward incident. Traveling day and night, allowing for stoppages and delays, they expected to be nearly five days on the way.
On the other side of the canal was a huge East Indiaman, with her lower yards cockbilled, loading all three hatches at once. It was a beautiful morning. The sun was so bright that all the scene had thrice its natural beauty.
These men had been sitting all day without seeing the king, and three shots opened his gate immediately to me. He was sitting on the iron chair in the shade of the court, attended by some eighty women, tweedling the loading rod in his fingers; but as my rod appeared a better one than his, they were exchanged.
It used a carload of paper every week, and the mail trains would be hours loading up at the depot of the little Kansas town. It was a four-page weekly, which sold for less than half a cent a copy; its regular subscription list was a quarter of a million, and it went to every crossroads post office in America. The "Appeal" was a "propaganda" paper.
This officer informed him, in going down in the boat, that he would not suffer him to go three yards from him when landed, and that he would certainly shoot him if he attempted to run from him; for which purpose he showed him, that he was loading his gun with ball: this so terrified the cheat, that he acknowledged he knew of no gold mine.
"Why, that's adding insult to injury!" the mate declared sympathetically. The youthful master threw up both hamlike hands in token of complete surrender and profound disgust. "There's the gratitude of an owner!" he raved. "He wires me my loading orders and never says a word about docking though as managing owner it's up to him to know when the vessel needs docking.
After the tug and pilot left, a course was shaped towards the hidden mysteries that lay across the sea. The passage was made quickly, but not without mishap, for the vessel had struck on a reef of rocks, and it was thought her false keel and copper had received considerable damage. From the time the vessel left the port of loading the captain had been little seen.
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