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"The locket I see at Whoop-Up, the one Pierre Roubideaux buy from old Makoye-kin's squaw." "A picture of a Blackfoot?" "No-o. Maybe French maybe from the 'Merican country. I do not know." Whaley took the pipe from his mouth and sat up, the chill eyes in his white face fixed and intent. "Go back to Whoop-Up, Lemoine. Buy that locket and that ring for me from Pierre Roubideaux.
One day as Perry had recovered strength, Judge Whaley said: "My son, are you a minister, qualified to perform marriages?" "Yes." "When you are ready and strong, will you marry your mother and me again?" "Very soon," said Perry; "but not too soon. Here is Marion waiting for me, as she has waited, like Rachel for Jacob, these many years. I shall preach no more, dear father, except as a layman.
They had with them about fifty pounds of frozen fish for the dogs and provisions enough to last the three of them four or five meals. Whaley had brought West supplies enough to carry him only to Lookout, where he was to stock for a long traverse into the wilds. As the hours passed there grew up between the gambler and the girl a tacit partnership of mutual defense.
The shriek of it was now like the skirling of a thousand bagpipes, again like the wailing of numberless lost souls. Inside, West snored heavily, his ill-shaped head drooping on the big barrel chest of the man. Jessie slept while Whaley kept guard. Later she would watch in her turn. There were moments when the gale died down, but only to roar again with a frenzy of increased violence.
West glanced at the big mittens on the other's hands, laughed hardily, and pushed into the cabin. A startled grunt escaped him. "She's gone," he called out. "Probably in the woods back here rabbit-shooting likely. She can't have gone far without snowshoes," Whaley said. The big man picked up the ski Jessie had made. "Looky here." Whaley examined it. "She might have made a pair of 'em and got away.
In a blind exordium the old zealot commanded those who would save their souls to walk forward and kneel publicly at the altar, and make their struggle there for salvation. The first whom Marion saw to walk up the dimly lighted aisle and kneel was Perry Whaley.
His successor in the Fortieth Congress is Norman B. Judd. In 1867 the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by Dartmouth College. 18, 556, 557. KELLIAN V. WHALEY was born in Onondaga County, New York, May 6, 1821. When quite young he removed with his father to Ohio, where he was favored with few educational advantages.
"My son," he would reply, "you are obedient, but a demon! I could not love you if I would!" "Never mind then, father, I can wait. There is plenty of time in life to make you love me!" Judge Whaley for he had been on the bench was the highest example in Maryland of honor and pride.
IN a preceding chapter, we left the poor boy on the plantation of Colonel Whaley, affected by a pulmonary disease, the seeds of which were planted on the night he was confined in the guard-house, and the signs of gradual decay evinced their symptoms.
Anyhow, I drew a present out of it." "I see you did," Beresford answered, grinning. "I'm to look after you proper an' see you're tucked up." "Oh, that's it?" "That's just it." The constable looked at him queerly, started to say something, then changed his mind. It was characteristic of McRae that he had insisted on bringing Whaley to his own home to recuperate.
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