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They were occasionally varied by long walks into the country near London, for the purpose of refilling his sketch-book. It was on one of such occasions when he was sketching the details of some picturesque pollard old willows up the Thames, and standing all the time in wet ground that he caught a severe cold which confined him to the house. He rapidly became worse.
If you got any influence, try to change him, because if he don't do it by his own will, he's going to be changed by force!" And he rode on up the trail, followed by the silent string of riders on their grunting, tired horses. She gave them only a careless glance. Joe Pollard had baffled officers of the law before, and he would do it again. That was not her great concern on this day.
Now, the fact is, we want the Navy to have three or four dozen of our submarine craft, for we ourselves believe implicitly in the great worth of the Pollard boats." "That's just the point, sir," cried Captain Jack Benson. "Eh? What is?" inquired Mr. Farnum, looking at his young skipper in some bewilderment.
"Bring milk a lot of it, for these young men," ordered a physician who stood in the crowd. For Jack and Hal, on their feet again, leaned almost helplessly against Farnum and Pollard. Their lungs were so filled with smoke that both boys felt as though they could never breathe again.
"Then that's settled. You're both engaged to serve aboard the 'Pollard' when she floats and dives," wound up Mr. Farnum, dropping back into his matter-of-fact tone, and mopping his face, for the July afternoon was exceedingly hot. "By the way, boys, how do you feel about taking a little pleasure trip to-night? How'd you like to take one of my horses and a buggy, after supper?"
In Georgia a movement had begun which was distinctly different from the Virginia-Carolina movement of opposition, a movement for which Rhett and Pollard had scarcely more than disdainful tolerance, and not always that. This parallel opposition found vent, as did the other, in a political pamphlet.
As he had been at the beginning, so he was now, a man without theories but with an instinctive comprehension of boys. In consequence there were no vacancies in his house, and the Headmaster had grown accustomed to recommend the Rev. Mr. Arthur Pollard when boys who needed any special care came to the school.
The pollard willows, tortured out of their natural shape by incessant choppings, became spiny-haired monsters as they stood up against it. She went in and upstairs without a light. It was now Wednesday. Thursday came, and Angel looked thoughtfully at her from a distance, but intruded in no way upon her.
"Just as soon as Captain Benson and his young men have had a chance to show you the remarkable feat that you have come here to see," promised Mr. Farnum. "And what is that remarkable feat?" asked another journalist. "The wonder of it will strike you all the more if we do not announce it in advance," rejoined David Pollard.
But fresh hope leaped up into her heart, though she could scarce believe her ears when Broderick's voice in answer was like the snarl of a beast, harsh with anger, snapping out his words fiercely: "Come out here. I want to talk with you outside. And, for God's sake, man, hurry!" Pollard, too, started. Bud King looked up with wondering eyes from his swinging hat.
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