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In a few minutes both were extended in comfortable, long cane chairs, no doubt experiencing an agreeable sense of bien être. The outlook, with its heavy foliage, was restful to the eye, and the air was charged with a spicy warmth. Presently Salter began: "On Monday you are due at the office to report yourself.
"Fifty miles, perhaps, and they are at least a thousand strong. It was their object to fall suddenly upon you in the dark, but when their scouts find that you fortify every night, they will wait to ambush you on the day's march." "Undoubtedly," said Daniel Poe, "and we've got to guard against it as best we can." "But my comrades and I and Dick Salter will be your eyes," said Henry.
Saddlebank, Salter, and a good many others, plugged their ears with their fists. That night Boddy and Catman paced in the bedchambers, to prevent plotting and conspiracy, they said. I longed to get my arms about Heriot, and thought of him, and dreamed of blood, and woke in the morning wondering what made me cry, and my arms and back very stiff.
If Mars crosses the orbit of Venus to-night, as I expect there being signs of it in the milky way, you will assist me in an observation that will stagger you on account of its results. Do not come out until dark, and ask at my brother's den for CAL." "I will not be in to-night, Mike," exclaimed Duff Salter a little while afterward. "You can have all the evening to yourself.
Together with Walter Heriot, Andrew Saddlebank, our best bowler, the drollest fellow in the world, John Salter, and little Gus Temple, were oftenest cited. They declared that they invariably uttered 'Amen, as Heriot did, but we none of us heard this defiant murmur of assent from their lips.
"I'm sprack," said Jan, confidently. "And I be fond of pigs." "Massey upon me," said Master Salter, laughing again. "Tis a peart young toad, sartinly. A might be fifty year old, for the ways of un. Well, thee shall have a shilling and thee tea, or one and sixpence without, then." And seeing that Jan glanced involuntarily at the table, the farmer added, "Give un some now, missus.
Salter felt some anxiety concerning his father's horses, so we left him to pursue them, and walked on laughing, Heriot praising me for my pluck. 'I say good-bye to you to-night, Richie, said he. 'We're certain to meet again. I shall go to a military school. Mind you enter a cavalry regiment when you're man enough. Look in the Army List, you'll find me there.
As the petition died away in Agnes's physical exhaustion, the venerable man thought to himself: "When Jacob wrestled all night at Peniel, his angel must have been a woman like this; for she has power with God and with men!" Calvin Van de Lear had been up-stairs with Duff Salter, and on his way out had heard the voice of Agnes Wilt praying.
She was a general trading-vessel, such as roamed the seas of the world adventurously at that time, and often made fortunes for the merchants of New York, Boston, and other Atlantic port cities. She was commanded by Captain John Salter, a clever man and a natural story-teller, whose engaging pictures of travel were sure to fascinate the young.
All this passed, in swift whispers, a few yards from Mr. Salter, and he now came forward and offered his arm to conduct Lady Bassett to the carriage. But the wretched, heart-broken wife forgot her art of pleasing. She shrank from him with a faint cry of aversion, and got into her carriage unaided. Mary Wells followed her. Mr. Salter was unwilling to receive this rebuff.
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