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Then she said slowly, "And I am the mistress of all the Carnaby property. It is mine to do what I like with. I could borrow money upon it, or sell it?" "Under conditions," said Deringham with a little smile of relief, though his face grew clouded again. "Alton has made it yours, almost too absolutely."
Deringham recoiled a pace when a somewhat gory fowl struck him on the knee, and then sat down on a pile of cedar-wood staring at the speaker. "I wish to see Mr. Alton as soon as possible," he said. The other man looked up again, and grinned. "You'd better not," said he.
In the year 1861-2, he erected, in the city of Cleveland, a woolen mill of five sets of machinery, and for several years ran it and turned out more goods annually than any other mill in the state of Ohio. He subsequently sold it to Alton Pope & Sons.
Time: On Thursday evening at five o'clock, if you can get it so; but in no case to be at a greater distance of time than Friday evening at five o'clock. "Fourth. Place: Within three miles of Alton, on the opposite side of the river, the particular spot to be agreed upon by you." As Mr. Shields refused to withdraw his first note, the entire party started for the rendezvous across the Mississippi.
At one of these exhibitions, given at Alton, only twenty miles from St. Louis, and just above the point where the clear waters of the Mississippi disappear in the turbid flood of the greater Missouri, an incident occurred that, while only regarded as amusing at the time, was productive of most important results to our friends.
One was the hunter we have already seen in Alton Wood.
"I don't mean to if I can help it," he said. "I've had Thomson prospecting for the fastest road down, and he has found one that is rideable." Forel nodded. "That reminds," he said. "Hettie wants to get away from the city, and I thought of taking her and Miss Deringham up to Somasco. You will lend us the house for a week or two?" "Of course," said Alton. "Go as soon as it's possible.
I don't argue and I don't beseech any further: I just sit on guard, as I would over a powder-cask. My father raised himself on an elbow. 'The explosion, he said, examining his watch, 'occurred at about five minutes to eleven we are advancing into the morning last night. I received on your behalf the congratulations of friends Loftus, Alton, Segrave, and the rest, at that hour.
The rest is simpler a little coal oil or giant powder, and just at the turning yonder a lariat across the trail. That man knows his business, Charley." "Good Lord!" said Seaforth once more. "It's devilish, Harry. You're not going to tell anybody, and repeat the mistake you made?" "Yes," said Alton grimly. "That's just what I figure on doing."
Doubtless the fall stunned me; but doubtless also not for more than a few seconds. For I awoke to the drum of distant hoofs, and before it died clean away I had recovered sense enough to take its bearing in the direction of Farnham. Strangely enough, towards Alton all was quiet. Sitting up, with both hands pressing my head, for just a moment I recognised the gallop for my own mare's.
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