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I used to camp with Roy Blakeley up on his lawn and it reminded me of that, being up here alone with you. After I've gone, you'll mix up with the fellows down in the camp, but anyhow, you'll remember how we were up here alone together, I bet. You bet I'll remember that I will." Barnard reached out his hand from under the coverings and grasped Tom's hand. "You're all there, Tommy," he said.
Good night." And the darkness closed around him. Over at Blakeley's ranch, J. C. Benham had just finished an inspection of the interior and had sank into the depths of a comfortable chair facing his daughter. Blakeley and his wife had retired, the deal that would place the ranch in possession of Benham having been closed. J. C. gazed critically at his daughter. "Like it here, eh?" he said.
I wouldn't care if he had keys to all the banks and safe deposit vaults in the United States." Gee, it just kind of gave me a thrill, the way he spoke. I said, "Anyway, now I know that I like you. I ought to have had sense enough to know before." Then he said, "You see, Blakeley, Skinny's a mighty queer little proposition.
The Blakeleys, as every one knew, had inherited from Stuart Blakeley a very considerable fortune in real estate in one of the most rapidly developing sections of upper New York, and on the death of their mother the two girls, Virginia and Cynthia, would be numbered among the wealthiest heiresses of the city.
The bulk of Milroy's force escaped during the night, but we captured four thousand prisoners, twenty-eight pieces of artillery, and hundreds of wagons and horses, and equipped ourselves, as we had done in 1862, at the expense of Banks. For our two recently acquired English Blakeley guns we substituted two twenty-pound Parrotts, giving us four guns of the same caliber.
He never, never read that message, you can bet on that." "I know! I know!" vociferated Pee-wee. "He had a a inspiration. Give me the doughnut." We need not linger in Bridgeboro, the native haunt of Scout Harris, and of Roy Blakeley and his Silver-plated Fox Patrol, and the other celebrities of Pee-wee's troop. For the adventures of these world heroes may be found recorded by Roy's own hand.
I was glad it wasn't, because I wanted him to stay in with his own fellows now and not bother with me. It was Bert Winton. "H'lo, Blakeley," he said, in that quiet kind of a way he has; "I thought everybody was in bed." "I see you're not in bed," I told him, kind of grouchy. He said, "Me? Oh, no, I always prowl around after fox trails and things.
At last Tom realizes his dream to scout and fight for Uncle Sam in the air, and has such experiences as only the world war could make possible. Tom Slade at Black Lake Tom has returned home and visits Temple Camp before the season opens. He builds three cabins and has many adventures. By PERCY KEESE FITZHUGH May be had wherever books are sold. Ask for Grosset and Dunlap's list. Roy Blakeley
Ellsworth wrote it out for me, and he remembered almost just how it was. Oh, but he's one fine man Mr. Bennett he's on some kind of a board and he helped build the hospital and he likes the scouts and he wishes he could shin up a tree he said so. So this is what he said. I am a lawyer myself and I wish to express my professional admiration of the way Leader Blakeley presented his case."
The armament of the Alabama consisted of one 7-inch Blakeley rifled gun, one 8-inch smooth-bore pivot gun, six 32 pounders, smooth-bore, in broadside. The Alabama's crew numbered not more than 120. On this head Captain Winslow speaks erroneously. He sets down the Alabama's crew at 150 officers and men.
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