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As Hallam had surmised, one or two affairs of importance detained Alton in Vancouver. The winter had been exceptionally rigorous, and he knew that the claim was guarded securely by frost and snow.
'Will relocate the silver claim as soon as prospecting is possible. Alton cannot take action. He means he's got him in a vise." Miss Holder crossed the landing and tapped at the door of the adjoining room, while Nellie Townshead walked to the window and looked down on the city.
He had, Seaforth fancied, stared at the crawling boulders with despair in his dimming eyes, and the weary man turned towards his comrade almost savagely. "Can't you think of anything a little more pleasant?" he said. Alton smiled gravely. "It comes to all of us one day, and the trail of the treasure-seeker leads most often to the unknown hunting grounds," he said.
Other works were The Canoe and Saddle, and Life in the Open Air. Though somewhat spasmodic and crude, his novels had freshness, originality, and power, and with longer life and greater concentration he might have risen high. Poet, b. near Alton, Hampshire, was at Oxf. for a short time, and then studied law at Lincoln's Inn.
"You have been watching Miss Deringham, and neglecting me," she said. For a moment Alton looked almost confused, and the lady laughed as she continued. "Very pretty and stylish, isn't she? Now we have pretty girls right here in Vancouver, but I fancy they can still give us points in one respect in the old country. You think that is foolish of me?
"I am," he said, "inclined to feel sorry for the Canadian, but you will at least be civil to him." Miss Deringham made a little gesture of impatience. "You do not suppose I should be openly resentful?" she said. Her father still appeared ironically amused. "I do not know that it would be necessary, but I fancy the Canadian will have cause to regret he is an Alton," he said.
Paul, and the Chicago and North Western railroads. It also acquired a dominating interest in the Chicago and Alton property, operating from Chicago to St. Louis, with Western branches.
And it was as well that she should not be out. The yachting season had brought many London men to the island. I met several who had not forgotten the newspaper-paragraph assertions and contradictions. Lord Alton, Admiral Loftus, and others were on the pier and in the outfitters' shops, eager for gossip, as the languid stretch of indolence inclines men to be.
"So father's folks didn't really come from Missouri but from way back East?" he inquired with appreciation of the added aristocracy that this gave the family. "Surely they came from Alton," Adelle replied. "That was where the Clarks had always lived ever since before the Revolution." "As long as that! Think of it I'll be damned beggin' your pardon, cousin!" the mason exclaimed.
It is true that letters cannot show in full the really exceptional versatility which enabled the same man to write Yeast and Westward Ho!, Andromeda and The Water Babies, the best of the Essays and the best of the Sermons, Alton Locke and At Last. But they can and they do show it in part: and it gives them the interest which has been noticed in other cases.
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