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General Lyttelton's Division had camped as far out as Elandslaagte with Burn Murdoch's cavalry, while Dundonald's brigade covered the space between Burn Murdoch's western outposts and the Drakensberg passes. Few Boers were seen, but it was known that the passes were held in some strength.
The idea of the whim-room came upon him as he was working out plans on the smooth side of a board, and thinking about things in general, and a good deal about Phyllis Bruce, and wondering if he should ever run across Zen Transley. It struck him all of a sudden, as had the Big Idea that night when he was on his way home from Murdoch's house.
The vices spread, and "in the complex of factors that led to the downfall of the Bakufu, the ultimate ascendancy of Kyoto's social standards in Kamakura must probably be regarded as the most important."* *Murdoch's History of Japan.
The provincial governors, at the outset purely civil officials, occasionally developed military capacity and rivalled the hereditary shugo in armed influence, but such instances were rare. *Murdoch's History of Japan.
In less than fifteen seconds, Trench's voice barked out of the phone. "Gordon? Where the hell you been?" "Up an alley between McCutcheon and Miles," Gordon told him. "With a corpse. Murdoch's corpse. Better send out the wagon." Trench hesitated only a fraction of a second. "Okay, I'll be out in ten minutes."
And it was probably as a result of that telephone call that a taxi drew up in front of Murdoch's home at exactly six-thirty that evening and bore Miss Phyllis Bruce and an officer wearing a captain's uniform in the direction of the best hotel in the city.
They all met their fate undauntedly; for if Murdoch's heart in any measure failed him, he was afraid to give way in presence of the proud bold Walter, who maintained an iron rigidity of demeanour with the wild fortitude of a Red Indian at the stake, and in like manner could by no means comprehend that King James acted from any motive save malice, for having been so long kept out of his kingdom.
"Poor Murdoch was much changed after that, for the few days that he lived you could easily see the thing was pressing upon his mind a good deal. "I need not tell you of the boat accident, you all know that well enough already, how Murdoch's dream became true even to the very letter. Mr.
"I don't make compliments for exercise, but you do look stunning to-night!" A warmth of color lit up her cheek he had noticed at Murdoch's how pale she was and her eyes laughed back at him with some of their old-time vivacity. "I am so glad," she said. "It seems almost like old times " They gave their orders, and sat in silence through an overture.
That faint cleaving doubt which he had never been able to shake off in Rebecca Murdoch's presence was fatally set at rest forever. He had seen her face, then, before seven years before, on his birthday, in the bedroom of the lonely inn. "Be warned! oh, my son, be warned! Isaac, Isaac, let her go, and do you stop with me!" Something darkened the parlor window as those words were said.
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