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I saw that with their swords the horsemen bore great bows. A little cloud of arrows sparkled from them; fell far short. "Don't look back," grunted Ventnor. "Stretch yourself, Walter. There's a surprise coming. Hope to God I judged the time right." We turned off the ruined way; raced over the sward. "If it looks as though we can't make it," he panted, "YOU beat it after the rest.

He knew no more until he opened his eyes in a room in his friend's chambers in the Temple. Next day he and Robert Audley journeyed by express to Ventnor, learned on inquiry at the principal hotel that a Captain Maldon, whose daughter was lately dead, was staying at Lansdowne Cottage; and thither they proceeded. The captain and his little grandson, Georgey, were out.

When money is lost out of an office, suspicion very frequently falls upon one or more of that office's employes. Mr. Galloway's doubts, however, had not yet extended to those employed in his. The letter containing the bank-note had been despatched to Mr. Robert Galloway, at Ventnor, on the Friday. On the Sunday morning, while Mr.

His great chest swelled with his effort, the muscles of his neck knotted, sweat steamed down his face. "No use," he gasped, "no use, Goodwin. It's like trying to lift yourself by your boot-straps like a fly stuck in molasses." "Ruth," cried Ventnor once more. As though it had been a signal the block darted forward, resuming the distance it had formerly maintained between us.

I passed Sandown and Ventnor and Steephill, and could see the lights in the houses all along the shore; but as to being able to land, the wriggling brutes in my wake, as I said, took good care that I shouldn't do that.

In any case he is sure to love her best." When Clarissa was at last well enough to be moved, her husband took her down to Ventnor, where the sight of her boy, bright and blooming, and the sound of his first syllables little broken scraps of language, that are so sweet to mothers' ears had a better influence than all Dr. Ormond's medicines.

Or keep our epigrams in cold storage and our adjectives under lock and key! Ventnor. When our emotions weren't worth ten cents a word, and a signature wasn't an autograph. Ah, Helen, after all, there's nothing like the exhilaration of spending one's capital! Mrs. Dale. Of wasting it, you mean. Ventnor. The old garden with the high wall at the end of the village street?

If Ventnor telegraphed to London his withdrawal from the board, nothing short of a cabled draft for ten thousand pounds would prevent certain creditors from filing a bankruptcy petition. In the local banks the baronet had about a thousand to his credit. Surely among the rich merchants of the port, men who knew the potentialities of his scheme, he would be able to raise the money needed.

She clung close to her brother and beside him as we set forth down the roadway, through the rain, toward the ledge between the cliffs where the veils had shimmered. Hotter and hotter it grew as we advanced; the air steamed like a Turkish bath. The mists clustered so thickly that at last we groped forward step by step, holding to each other. "No use," gasped Ventnor. "We couldn't see.

We had to travel from Lyndhurst in the New Forest to Ventnor, an awkward bit of cross-country work in those days. "It's so fortunate you are going too," said her aunt to me on the Tuesday; "Minnie is always nervous travelling alone. You will be able to look after her, and I shan't be anxious." I said it would be a pleasure, and at the time I honestly thought it.