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On the 3d the Seventeenth Corps was opposite Rivers's Bridge, and the Fifteenth approached Beaufort's Bridge. The Salkiehatchie was still over its banks, and presented a most formidable obstacle.
Rivers's had been unmade, "She is the brightest little creature under the sun, and the sparkle is down so deep within, that however it may turn out, I should never fear for her happiness." "Flora is my great reliance," proceeded Mr. Rivers. "Her aunt, Lady Leonora, is very kind, but somehow she does not seem to suit with Meta."
Indeed, Lady Leonora thought dear Flora Rivers's only fault, her over-strictness, which encouraged Meta in the same, but there were points that Flora could not have yielded on any account, without failing in her own eyes. She made time for everything, and though, between business and fashion, she seemed to undertake more than mortal could accomplish, it was all effected, and excellently.
He staggered to his feet, and seizing Rivers's arm followed Ann and John in silence. With Rivers they were driven back to Grey Pine. Of all Ann Penhallow's schemes to amuse or interest her husband this had been the most utter failure. Every one had gone from the hall when John missing Leila returned to the outer room to put on his cloak.
Rand put the butler to work fetching pistols from the racks, and replacing those he had already listed. After a while, Dunmore strolled in. "You say you found Rivers's body yourself, Colonel Rand?" he asked. Rand nodded, finished what he was typing, and looked up. "Why, yes. There were a few details I wanted to clear up with him, and I called at his shop this morning.
Rand looked at the tag tied to the trigger-guard; it was marked, in letter-code, with three different prices. That was characteristic of Arnold Rivers's business methods. "How much does Mr. Rivers want for this?" he asked, handing the revolver to young Gillis. The clerk mentally decoded the three prices and vacillated for a moment over them.
I swear I'd rather go as a private than not at all." This idea gave Crittenden a start, and made him on the sudden very thoughtful. "Can you get me in as a private at the last minute?" he asked presently. "Yes," said Rivers, quickly, "and I'll telegraph you in plenty of time, so that you can get back." Crittenden smiled, for Rivers's plan was plain, but he was thinking of a plan of his own.
The ten thousand Dunmore told you Rivers was willing to pay was really the ten thousand he was willing to pay, himself, to keep Rivers quiet. "Then I was introduced into the picture, and, as you know, one of my first acts was to go to Rivers's shop and sneer scornfully at Rivers's supposed offer of ten thousand. And, right away, Rivers upped it to twenty-five thousand.
"Indeed!" said Mr. Wilmot, shocked. "Was that attack so serious?" "That recumbent position and want of exercise were certain to produce organic disease, and suspense and sorrow have hastened it. The death of Mrs. Rivers's poor child was the blow that called it into activity, and, if it last more than a year, I shall be surprised."
Rivers's fees, you know; then, Margaret gave us half-a-sovereign, and Mary a shilling, and there was one that we picked up, tumbling about the house, and papa said we might have, and the twopence were little Blanche's savings. Oh, Ritchie!" as a bright coin appeared on the book. "That is all I could save this term," he said. "Oh, it is famous!