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Blake, with a smile. "But this was a figure I recognized, sir," exclaimed Hiram. "It was Bill Bender!" "Jack Curtiss' chum! They're as thick as two thieves," burst out Merritt. "And I believe they are two thieves," solemnly put in Rob.
Indeed, so great was his contempt for the ministers of Louis and for their mad and selfish policy that he confessed to himself, but for his desire to serve under his old commander, he would almost as soon have joined d'Azay at Brussels, or taken a commission with the Austrians under Marshal Bender, who commanded in the Low Countries.
The Belgian National troops could not offer much resistance to the invading Austrian armies. On November 25th, Marshal Bender reached Namur, and on December 2nd, nearly a year after their departure from Brussels, the Austrians re-entered the capital. The Reichenbach Convention had guaranteed complete amnesty.
"That's my business, you interfering little runt," snapped Sam, who, with Bill Bender and Jack Curtiss to back him, felt very brave; though ordinarily he would have avoided trouble with the young scouts. "What are you doing spying around the yard here, anyhow?" he went on insolently. "We are not spying," indignantly burst out Merritt.
Almost daily her mother lectured her upon her bad taste in the choice of her associates, but Jenny was incorrigible, and the very next hour might perhaps be seen either walking with Billy Bender, or mounting the rickety stairs of some crazy old building, where a palsied old woman or decrepit old man watched for her coming, and blessed her when she came. Early in the spring Mr.
Joe explained carefully that his father said for him to hunt up Chief Bender working on the job out here because he was one of the few men who'd left the Kenmore plant to work elsewhere, and he was good. He and the Chief, between them, would estimate the damage and the possibility of repair. Major Holt listened. He was military and official and harassed and curt and tired.
"It is hardly natural that she should feel it as deeply as Mary," said Mrs. Campbell to Billy Bender, who was present.
"Marty got out ... yes ... most of us did ... but Eddie Baker, Morty, and Sam Bender.... It was the cotton waste, Mr. Joe, and the cigarettes...." Joe put his arm about the rough man. "Never mind, Johnny ... Go home to the kiddies...." There was so little he could do. He went to a few homes he knew, he went to the hospital to ask after the injured, he went to the morgue.
O'Brien has to have a couple of 'em so's he'll know what's going on. Y' see, judge, the On Gee Tong is helping the prosecution against the Hip Leongs, so both sides has to be more or less represented." "Well, make sure none of 'em is armed," ordered Judge Bender. "I don't like these cases."
"How much a glass, think you?" says Fred, filling another bumper. "A half-crown, think ye? a half-crown, Honeyman? By cock and pye, it is not worth a bender." He says this in the manner of the most celebrated tragedian of the day.
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