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In Newark they telephoned the joyful news to Mrs. Maynard, and then took the first train to Seacote. All through the two-hour ride, Marjorie slept peacefully, with her father's arm protectingly round her. The two men said little, being too thankful that their quest was successfully ended. "But I think her mind is all right," whispered Mr. Maynard, as Mr. Bryant leaned over from the seat behind.
When the question first came up here of his going, of course I welcomed it enthusiastically. About that time during a two-hour conversation he asked me why the British were so unpopular in the United States. Among other reasons I told him that our official people on both sides steadfastly refused to visit one another and to become acquainted. Neither he nor Lord Grey, nor Mr. Asquith, nor Mr.
"About two hours, Your Honor," he replied. The jury stirred impatiently. It was clear that they regarded a two-hour speech from him under the circumstances as an imposition. But Babson wished to preserve the fiction of impartiality. "Very well," said he. "You may sum up until four-thirty, and have half an hour more to-morrow morning. See that the doors are closed, Captain Phelan.
And so, the usual watches being divided into two-hour relays, the fight has gone on wearily but persistently, until now, the evening of the fourth day, the men are wan and haggard from the killing heat and foul air.
Gissing was quite content to do a two-hour trick at the wheel both morning and afternoon, and worked out some new principles of steering which gave him pleasure.
We were impatient to get away, now, and the rest of our two-hour stop rather dragged. But finally the set time arrived and we began the ascent. Indeed it was a wonderful road. It was smooth, and compact, and clean, and the side next the precipices was guarded all along by dressed stone posts about three feet high, placed at short distances apart.
"About that time President Gomez found out that the advice of C. Wainwright was the stuff he had been looking for. The country was pulling out of debt, and the treasury had enough boodle in it for him to amuse himself occasionally with the night-latch. The people were beginning to take their two-hour siestas again every day which was the surest sign of prosperity.
"We're both armed and I don't think there's any chance of our being taken by surprise." "We'll watch in two-hour shifts," Mr. Buckley proposed. "In that way we'll keep fresh and on the alert, so that there'll be less danger of being taken by surprise." "Very well, that's agreed upon, if it's satisfactory to Mr. Perry," the officer announced.
"I'm dull as a post, but I begin to understand at last, and I'm with you absolutely. I'll take you there to-night, it won't be a two-hour drive. I'll hitch up right now if you're ready." For the first time in the last tense minutes Manning relaxed. The hand on the chair arm loosened its grip. "I'm glad you know where he is," he said unemotionally. "I don't think we'll go to-night, though."
It took some effort to maintain a galloping pace now, for the teams were tiring, and after some mental calculations Rock shook his head doubtfully. Of course, his quarry was at a disadvantage, there being two men to one sled, but twenty-three miles, with a two-hour start! It was altogether too great a handicap.
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