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Murray’s possession, may one day find a place. Borrow and his family used to stay with me at Bury; I visited him, less often, at his cottage on the lake at Oulton, a fine sheet of water that flows into the sea at Lowestoft. He was much courted there by his neighbours and by visitors to the seaside. I there met Baron Alderson and his daughters, who had ridden from Lowestoft to see him.”
As for Alderson, he was a comparative stranger to Phil a contractor who had risen rapidly during the real-estate boom, and who very reasonably might be taking a flyer on the market. It must be something of this sort, and in the face of his uncle's evident desire for him to mind his own business Phil was inclined to let it go at that.
For a half a minute I was afraid we were going down, but a shift in position by Gallagher steadied the shell. Meanwhile Alderson had thrown his muscles into the oars and we drew away steadily; fifty strokes, and the shadows had swallowed us. Alderson pulled across the river and let the boat drift down the opposite bank. The outgoing tide carried us swiftly. We slipped past the schooner unobserved.
Within a week Alderson learned that Aileen and Cowperwood were visiting an apparently private residence, which was anything but that.
It had occurred to him, probably in the days when Hannah Godwin was wife-hunting for him, or later, when Amelia Alderson met with his good-will, that if husband and wife live on too intimate and familiar terms, the chances are they will tire of each other very soon. When the charm of novelty and uncertainty is removed, there is danger of satiety.
"General Alderson, commanding the reinforcements, directed an advance by a British brigade which had been brought up in support. "As the troops making it swept through the Canadian left and center, many of them going to certain death, they paused for an instant with deep-throated cheers for Canada, indicating the warm admiration which the Canadians' exertions had excited in the British army.
On the night of April twenty-second, General Alderson and his officers saw that the situation was desperate. They thought to save their men. The general sent up the command: "Retire!" The word first reached the Little Black Devils. The men heard it, the officers heard it, and they looked over the flattened parapet of their trench.
Neidlinger crawled forward on hands and knees to help his partner. Shaking off the grip of the irresolute men holding me, I was in time to seize George Fleming, who had run forward to aid the captain. From the hatchway a crisp order rang out. "Back there, Fleming!" I turned. Blythe and Yeager were standing near the foot of the ladder; behind them Alderson, Smith, Morgan, and Philips.
Alderson, Billie Blue, and Morgan were pursuing the flying rabble. Bothwell, making play with his cutlas against both Blythe and Yeager, was retreating slowly to the bridge rail. I remember crying out as I ran toward them. Bothwell vaulted over the rail to the deck below. I followed like a fool, for in the row I had lost my weapons. As I recall it now, Sam shouted to me to come back.
Kendrick bit his lip for a moment, considering. Then he asked for the telephone directory, thought better of it and decided to call at the office of the Alderson Construction Company unheralded. The young man who came to the counter was Jimmy Stiles himself, Kendrick surmised; but he merely asked to see Mr. James Stiles.
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