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"'I am doing all I can, he said to Colonel Monro; 'but I shall be only too happy if I can prevent a massacre!" "Horrible!" ejaculated the young lieutenant. "Oh, better, far better, to have held the fort and perished in open fight than to be set upon in cold blood by those fiends!" "Yes," quoth Pringle sternly; "that is what we felt and said. But it was too late then.
Pringle and I have kept him carefully free from any suggestion of evil. We have put in his hands only the best and purest of books; we have not allowed him to attend any motion picture performances other than the yearly visit of the Burton Holmes travelogues, and, last year, a film called Snow White and Rose Red; we have forbidden him to enter a theater.
They had no food but a little ginger which Pringle chanced to have in his pocket, and a bit of a sausage that Roche had secreted about him. The snow drifted in their faces.
The three detectives stood and looked at the three boxes with an air of great satisfaction. "With this addition to our oblong boxes," said Wilton Barnstable, "their number is now complete. Miss Henrietta Pringle, we will listen to your story." There was little to tell, and Miss Henrietta Pringle told it in a breath.
We took a taxicab at once, and were waiting at the freight depot in Newark when the thing arrived. There I claimed it in the name of Miss Genevieve Pringle. "It became apparent to me that I must manage its final disposition myself. Elmer hired for me the vehicle in which we arrived here, and we started back to New York. "But the driver, from the first, was suspicious of the box.
Ye'll find us Whigs at Ladykirk united, and in that case ye're safe to carry the day," said Sandy Pringle. Francis' return, however, ran more risk than either he or Sandy Pringle counted upon, for the suggestion carefully circulated by Fortescue, Toutwell, and the Tory agents, and feebly denied even by Mr.
The seamen treated their prisoners with the greatest kindness and humanity; and even Paul Pringle declared that the Jean Crapauds were not after all such bad fellows, if you got them by themselves to talk to quietly. Young Renaudin, the son of the brave Captain of the Vengeur, during their ten days' passage home, became a great pet among the officers and midshipmen.
I would have thought nothing of such a thing a few weeks previous, but the knowledge of life which I had gained in my brief residence in Fourteenth Street and from the advice of Mrs. Pringle had showed me the danger that lurked in such a course.
With Cleggett's assistance Lady Agatha removed the cover from the oblong box, and showed her its contents. "That explains nothing," said Miss Pringle, dryly. "Of course you would remove the plum preserves to a place of safety." "Miss Pringle," said Lady Agatha, "I will tell you everything.
"Come along, nevey," interrupted Jack Pringle; "now you've found your way back, the first thing you ought to do, is to report yourself as having come aboard. Follow me, and I'll soon show yer the port where the old hulk's laid hisself up."
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