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Barker adds that if $5,000 could be sent to Consul General Lee, blankets, cots, and medicines could be purchased in Santa Clara, and thus save thousands who must die if compelled to await the sending of these supplies from the United States.
I never was so frighted but once, when my wife was ill at Ware upon the road, and I did continue trembling a good while and ready to weepe to see him, he continuing mighty pale all dinner and melancholy, that I was loth to let him take his journey tomorrow; but he began to be pretty well, and after dinner my wife and Barker fell to singing, which pleased me pretty well, my wife taking mighty pains and proud that she shall come to trill, and indeed I think she will.
"To whom did you assign them for rations and quarters?" demanded the colonel, of Barker. "Captain Snaffle, sir 'C' Troop." "Are they there? the others, at least?" "Corporal Watts and Trooper Ames are there, sir. Trooper Rawdon, as you know, is not. He has not been seen about the quarters since some time last evening. Moreover, the few personal belongings he had are gone." Again a pause.
I briefly recounted my disappointment, my probable loss, and begged their assistance. "Why," said a Spanish friend, who prided himself on his accurate knowledge of English, to Barker, who seemed to be trying vainly to rise from his reclining position on the veranda, "why do you not disengage yourself from the veranda of our friend?
I had a pistol at your head last night, and, by George! whether you believe it or not, you have one at mine this morning!" The young man rose slowly, and with a broad smile he wrung the magistrate by the hand. "Don't do it again. It's too risky," said he. "The swine would score heavily if you were taken." "You're a good chap, Barker," said the magistrate. "No, I won't do it again.
Barker’s qualifications, appointed him to the vacant office of cad on the very first application. The buss began to run, and Mr. Barker entered into a new suit of clothes, and on a new sphere of action.
"Rather rough on Providence, Barker boy," said Stacy, "handing back the Heaven-sent gift so soon! Besides, what's to keep any prospector from coming along and making a strike of it? You know that's mining law if you haven't preempted the spot as a claim." But Barker was too staggered by this material statement to make any reply, and Demorest arose.
But no, they must trail them ten miles in a slow ambulance to Nottingham. It's a crying shame! Oh, and the fuss he'll make! I know he will! I wonder who's with him. Barker, I s'd think. Poor beggar, he'll wish himself anywhere rather. But he'll look after him, I know. Now there's no telling how long he'll be stuck in that hospital and WON'T he hate it! But if it's only his leg it's not so bad."
Archdeacon Barker, who has been ceaseless in his ministrations among the afflicted since fighting began, gave eloquent expression to the prevalent sentiment, as one who had kith and kin about him, and finished by saying that he would neither go to the camp selected by General Joubert, nor allow his wife and family to go.
"Ever since he joined, sir." "And you knew him in his cadet days?" "As an instructor knows a cadet, yes, sir." "And you told me you never heard of his writing to newspapers?" "Never, sir," answered Barker, rising from his chair and facing his commander. "And I repeat that I believe it impossible for him to have had anything to do with those inflammatory articles about the campaign."
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