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Within three days we'll have our remittance, and mail you the money, and you'll mail us this darned box with my seal unbroken! It's no use you lookin' so sick, Mr. Jooler; you won't trust us any, and yet we're goin' to trust you some. Ring the bell, Ezra, and we'll see if they've gotten any sealing-wax and string." They had; and the thing was done.
We calculated that we should be about a week or ten days getting to London, for those were times when even the coaches on the great northern road went very leisurely along, and it was not for some time after that they were superseded by the fast London and Edinburgh mail. Times have indeed changed with all of us.
It suddenly flashed into his mind. "Could it be Jennie? She's in the post office, and she's sometimes there alone! If some one should try to find out something about the mail or express business they had no right to know!" Jack hardly knew what to think. But there came a sudden desire in his heart to be near Jennie to be ready in case she called. "Come on, Sunger, hit it up!"
The shaft, pointed with tempered steel, struck the shield full in the centre, and by Heaven, pierced it, aye, and the mail behind, aye, and the flesh it covered, so that he, too, got his death. "A great shot, Master," said William, "that no other bow in Hastings could have sped." "Not so ill," I answered, "but it is my last. Now we must fight as we can with sword and axe until we be sped."
After awhile, he took Siegfried into his confidence. He said: "There is a powerful knight in Burgundy who has challenged every smith of my country to make a weapon strong enough to pierce his coat of mail. "I long to try," Mimer went on, "but I am now old and have not strength enough to use the heavy hammer." At these words Siegfried jumped up in great excitement.
Lambert, a celebrated English diver, recovered L90,000 in specie from the steamer Alphonso XII, a Spanish mail boat belonging to the Lopez line, which sank off Point Gando, Grand Canary, in 26 1/2 fathoms of water.
He laughed lightly, his good nature restored. "I suppose," said Esther slowly, "that there are people whose minds work in devious ways, who'd rather not give their reasons for doing things." "You may be right. It doesn't matter a hoot what she does. Oh, by the way did you happen to see these items in the Paris Daily Mail? They may interest you."
I ate the last of it along with my first cup of coffee at Antigua, West Indies, which, after all, was quite a record. The one my own sister made me at the little island in the Bay of Fundy, at the first of the voyage, kept about the same length of time, namely, forty-two days. After luncheon a royal mail was made up for Ascension, the island next on my way. Then Mr.
He had one chance in a hundred of landing it tip the mail clerk in the business office to keep an eye open for the man who called for "Double C" mail. Eventually, the man who did call for that mail presented a card to the mail clerk. At the bottom of this card was the name of the chief of the United States Secret Service. "And say to the reporter who has probably asked to watch hands off!
She was only just in time, for with the ballast trembling beneath, and red cinders flying from the funnel of the mammoth mountain engine ahead, the Atlantic mail went by.
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