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He had watched her construction, and his energy had made it possible to send her to sea in time to arrest the destructive operations of the Merrimac. What he had done with a new crew, and a vessel of novel construction, we all knew. He, the President, cordially acknowledged his indebtedness to Captain Worden, and he hoped the whole country would unite in the feeling of obligation.

Here, then, we found everything in a very fair way to bring us all out in society, within the first two hours of our arrival. Mr. Worden was engaged to preach the next day but one; and he was engaged to supper that same day. All looked promising, and I hurried on in order to ascertain if Guert Ten Eyck had made his promised call.

They are my own berries, and the cream, Mr. Filmer, is the product of that excellent yearling you were kind enough to send me last summer." They moved into the study and were presently joined by Mrs. Dibbott and Mrs. Worden. "We have seen the yacht," said the latter enthusiastically, "and she is lovely, but how do you pronounce her name?"

A young man behind the counter looked startled when he saw Bronson, and made a motion that the plain-clothes man checked. "Don't bother with the buzzer, Tommy," said the officer. "There's nothing doing to my knowledge. This friend of mine wants to reach a chap who's inside. Call Worden, will you?"

It seemed now that his chief had reached the point where the god in the machine must make some grievous error. He was insatiable. Presently two figures approached. One was Judge Worden, the other a girl. The former waved his stick. "We're going to see Mr. Clark. Elsie, this is Mr. Belding." The girl smiled and put out a slim hand. "I've heard all about you did you make all this?"

Lieutenant Worden never fully recovered from the injuries received in his fight with the Merrimac. As soon as he was able to take an active command he asked the privilege of doing so. In charge of the Montauk, of the South Atlantic blockading squadron, he destroyed, while under a heavy fire, the Confederate steamer Nashville and participated in the unsuccessful attack upon Charleston.

Under the command of a gallant naval officer, Captain Worden, she was sent South from New York, and though she almost foundered in a gale she managed to weather it, and reached the scene of the battle at Hampton Roads at the moment when her presence was all-important.

Worden, whose lungs had been playing like a blacksmith's bellows "Run! and who would not run to save himself from being drowned?" "Drowned!" repeated the young Dutchman, looking round at the river, as if to ascertain whether the ice were actually moving "why does the Dominie suppose there was any danger of that?" As Mr.

Worden, whom I would, though unwillingly on their sides, make sit down, which they did over against me. Mrs. Worden asked my pardon, in a good deal of confusion, for the part she had acted against me; saying, That things had been very differently represented to her; and that she little thought I was married, and that she was behaving so rudely to the lady of the house.

There was no other explanation for an expression like his wife's when such grim rumors were abroad. A little later she told Mrs. Worden, and both the judge and Bowers heard of it, and next day the story reached a dozen houses in St. Marys. The constable, it was said, for all his pessimism, had been sharper than Clark himself.