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She was born on November 10, 1813, at Hawley, Massachusetts, her father being General Thomas Longley, who had fought in the war of 1812. Evidently he was not a wealthy man, for Mary began her education at the common town school, where she had for her schoolfellows the children of some of the poorest inhabitants.
General Longley had organised his attacking columns in three groups.
'Once he asked Tom Davies, whom he saw drest in a fine suit of clothes, "And what art thou to-night?" 'Of Mr. Longley, at Rochester, a gentleman of very considerable learning, whom Dr. Johnson met there, he said, "My heart warms towards him.
"A few shares in a poker hand, eh?" he suggested shrewdly. "You're kind o' quick, mister," Bill laughed. "I'm stuck on 'draw' some." Then the talk drifted suddenly. It was Longley who presently harked back to the commercial side of Suffering Creek. "You was sayin' ther' wasn't no bank on Suffering Creek," he said interestedly. "What do folks do with their dust now, then?"
He talked pointedly and effectively to Longley for three minutes. He succeeded in making the banker understand that he stood upon the border of a catastrophe. And then he offered a tiny loophole of escape. "I am going to Hilldale's to-night," he told Longley, "to examine a bank there. I will pass through Chaparosa on my way back. At twelve o'clock to-morrow I shall call at this bank.
In the breast of the rib-sprung sex the genius of purse lightening may slumber through years of inopportunity, but never, my brothers, does it become extinct. So, out of the chaparral came Long Bill Longley from the Bar Circle Branch on the Frio a wife-driven man to taste the urban joys of success. Something like half a million dollars he had, with an income steadily increasing.
But just now his manner suggested that he had drunk quite as much whisky as the strangers. His spirits rose with theirs, and his jocularity and levity matched theirs, step by step, as they went on talking. The man Longley had spoken of the settlement as being "one-horsed," and Billy promptly agreed. "It sure is," he cried.
Wired to Major Longley for one-half of Field Hospital 337th to take over this hospital, and in addition more medical officers and personnel, for Ambulance work. On Oct. 2nd Capt. Fortescue returned to Beresnik, which left me as A. D. A. D. M. S. river forces. The same day we took quarters with Russian professor and established an office in same building.
"I guess Ed'll be along back now in a few days." "There was a bank examiner," said Longley, "nosing around our place to-day, and he bucked a sight about that note of yours. You know I know it's all right, but the thing is against the banking laws. I was pretty sure you'd have paid it off before the bank was examined again, but the son-of-a-gun slipped in on us, Tom.
It is said that the repeated letters of Major Longley to SOS in England somehow were always tangled in the British and American red tape, in going through military channels.
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