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The third man up was struck on the elbow with the ball, and trotted gleefully to first, the player ahead going to second. But Curly caught the runner on first napping, and the next batsman struck out. The blue-stockinged players came in from the field. "Stone at bat!" called the scorer. "Brown on deck!" "A run would do it, sir," said Apthorpe, eagerly.
To be sure, Apthorpe put a fly where the Durham right fielder could not reach it, and so got to first base, and Riding advanced him by a neat sacrifice; but he had no chance to score. Durham's best hitter was Mansfield, the instructor, who played first base.
Miles and miles above the little city of New York, on a road which led up through the Island of Manhattan, there was a stately house in a stretch of country and forest land overlooking the Hudson River. This was the house of Charles Ward Apthorpe and was known as the Apthorpe mansion.
"I don't think we fellows have much right to ask you to help us out, but if you'll do it for the school, sir, everyone will be mighty glad." "For the school!" Curly wondered rather bitterly what the school had done for him that he should come to her rescue. But he only answered gravely: "I'll do what I can, Apthorpe." He threw aside his coat and waistcoat and tightened his belt.
Murray, and she was a Quaker, too, made herself so charming in her hospitality to the British generals that she detained them long enough for Silliman's brigade to retreat to Harlem. Washington was awaiting them at the Apthorpe House, and they had left that place not more than fifteen minutes when the British came flying in the hot haste of pursuit. So but for Mrs.
Stiles need have felt no anxiety, for, according to Mr. Mayhew in answer to his pamphlet, in which he reproduced the charge made by Mr. Caner: "A few days after, Mr. Apthorpe published the enclosed pamphlet, in vindication of the institution and conduct of the society, which occasioned the ungenteel reflections which your grace will find in Dr.
Henry Caner, and the fourth, Answer to the Observations, an anonymous English production, really by Archbishop Seeker. Mayhew wrote a Defense, and Apthorpe summed up the whole controversy in his Review. A. L. Cross, Anglican Episcopate, p. 145 et seq.; footnote 1, p. 147.
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