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Every assault of the enemy, who made but little progress, was gallantly repulsed until the afternoon of the 9th, when, learning by the evacuation of Spanish Fort how small a force had delayed him, he concentrated on Blakeley and carried it, capturing the garrison. Maury intended to withdraw Liddell during the night of the 9th.
He said, "Blakeley, if I don't make it, you'll have my body to ease the shock for you. People people will be here to-morrow you'll get out. It's getting in we have to think about. If I don't make it, try to land on your feet a little forward like this see? And duck your head and do a summersault forward see? If you don't want to, it's none of my business. Only I'm telling you how.
"Now, Blakeley," he said, kind of more serious like, while he rowed around; "what are we going to do about it? Skinny didn't take the money, that's settled. All right then, who did? Nobody. Correct, be seated. All right then, what became of it? Mr. David Jones has it our old college chum, Davy. It's at the bottom of Black Lake. How do I know all this?
Roy Blakeley and his patrol are found in this book once more happily established in camp. Roy and his friends incur the wrath of a land owner, but the doughty Pee-wee saves the situation and the wealthy landowner as well. The boys wake up one morning to find Black Lake flooded far over its banks, and the solving of this mystery furnishes some exciting reading. Roy Blakeley, Pathfinder
Late one September afternoon, British ships of war appeared all around her, and selecting one which seemed isolated from the others, Captain Blakeley decided to try to run alongside and sink her after nightfall. She was the eighteen-gun brig Avon, a bigger ship than the Wasp, but Blakeley ran alongside, discharged his broadsides, and soon had the Avon in a sinking condition.
Before describing it, however, let us speak briefly of four other valiant men, whose deeds redounded to the honor of their country Edward Preble, Charles Stewart, Johnston Blakeley, and Thomas Macdonough. It was said of Preble that he had the worst temper and the best heart in the world.
Between the Rigolets and the bay of Mobile there is a chain of islands, at the extremity of which is Dauphine Island, which forms, with Mobile Point, from which it is distant about 3-1/4 miles, the entrance into the bay of Mobile, which leads through that part of the State of Alabama to the towns of Mobile and Blakeley. The distance between Dauphine Island and the Rigolets is 90 miles.
She could only murmur her thanks as we left. "It is strange," ruminated Kennedy, as we sped across the city again to the laboratory. "We must watch Mrs. Blakeley." That was all that was said. Although I had no inkling of what was back of it all, I felt quite satisfied at having recognized the mystery even on stumbling on it as I had.
Enclosed please find what I have termed a "Retrospect," being a review of the political conditions leading to and making possible the present expose. Such clippings as I have will be forwarded with matter. I enclose letter from Mr. Blakeley. Very respectfully, J. JEROME NORDMAN. After that we waited, rather impatiently, it must be confessed, for Whitlock's manuscript.
So this was the explanation of Roy's invitation that he accompany them on the trip. Mary Temple had asked them to let him go. Yet, despite his present mood, he could not believe that his own patrol leader, Roy Blakeley, could have written this. "I bet Tom Slade is I bet he's the cause of it," he said.
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