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The presence in Tangier of the King of Messina and his suite, and the arrival there of the French noblemen who had volunteered for the expedition, could not escape the observation of the resident Consuls-General and of the foreign colony, and dinners, riding and hunting parties, pig-sticking, and excursions on horseback into the outlying country were planned for their honor and daily entertainment.
When he reached the settlement, it required but a moment to make his errand known. A dozen warriors volunteered at once, for these dozen would have laid down their lives for their faithful instructor. Many of the squaws also gave utterance to dismal howls upon learning what had befallen their pale-faced sister.
Daylight asked. No one volunteered. "Then who-all'll take a job from me, cash wages in advance, to pole up a thousand pounds of grub?" Curly Parsons and another, Pat Monahan, accepted, and, with his customary speed, Daylight paid them their wages in advance and arranged the purchase of the supplies, though he emptied his sack in doing so.
At supper-time those who had been out on the line during the day were likewise introduced, and after a merry meal the whole party escorted the two girls back to the green bungalow. "Why, here's a piano!" Eliza exclaimed upon entering the parlor. "I borrowed it for the evening from the Elite Saloon," O'Neil volunteered.
They were, of course, most numerous in the South and West most numerous of all in Cork, the wild and difficult coast of which county was marked by a line of them, from Kinsale Head to Dingle Bay. Noblemen and gentlemen of high position volunteered their services to the Association, and laboured earnestly among the starving people.
But how will you go about to get the information we now need?" "First, I would look in the general residence directory to find out where the Grahams live," Katherine replied. "Yes, that is perhaps the best move to make first. But the chances are you will get nothing there. Can you tell me why?" "Because there are probably few summer cottages within the city limits," Hazel volunteered.
I don't in the least grasp the meaning of anything. You yourself volunteered the declaration that you would do great things for me. 'We are rich men together' those were your own words. I urged you at the time to go slowly to consider carefully whether you weren't being too generous. I myself said to you that you were ridiculously exaggerating what you called your obligation to me.
Numberless ingenious theories have been advanced from time to time by untold thousands of exasperated patrons of the line; opinions of all colors, all temperatures, all degrees of light and shade have been volunteered, many with a violence that lends conviction, but all in vain. The thing remains as secret, as recondite, as baffling as ever.
As we tramped through barracks where chilly Indians, Russians with broad, high cheek-bones, sensitive-looking Frenchmen with quick, liquid eyes, jumped to their feet and stiffened at attention as the commandant passed, a young officer, who had lived in England before the war and was now acting as interpreter, volunteered his guileless impressions.
They might attack you, and rob you!" "Yes, please don't think of going alone," pleaded Jessie, and her eyes began to fill with tears. "Dave is not going alone. I am going with him," declared Roger. "No, I'll go," volunteered Phil. "You can stay with the girls." "Well, both of you can't go," answered Dave, with a grim smile.
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