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It is, however, life’s illusions that in most cases make life tolerable. When in old age calamity came upon Hake, and he was shut out from life as by a prison wall, his one solace, the one thing that really bound him to life, was this ambitious dream which came upon the Bluecoat boy of eleven.
Scarcely was this speech ended when Tamahay was upon the soldier, who was surprised both by the order and by the unexpected readiness of the wily old Indian, so that he was not prepared, and the Sioux had the vantage hold. In a moment the bluecoat was down, amid shouts and peals of laughter from his comrades. Having thrown his man, the other turned and went home without a word.
Altogether he was one of the best men of his age, and well deserved to be buried in Christchurch, Newgate, among the Bluecoat School boys, to whom he had ever been such a friend, and to have the memorial pillar erected in his honour by Lady Clayton in Marden Park, Surrey.
He was then placed in the Bluecoat school and there met his lifelong friend, Charles Lamb. The theological studies that at first seemed to be his natural bent were no doubt a consequence of his early environment. Near the church is a house now occupied by Lord Coleridge.
"My hero then, this time, did not look much like one at the time when he displayed his heroism. He was a poor schoolboy, a Christ's Hospital lad." "What! one of those who go about without hats, in long coats and yellow stockings?" "Yes, the same. Charles Lamb, who tells the story, which is a true one, was himself one of these Bluecoat boys.
The attempt was useless, however, and a great darkness suddenly descended upon Hiram and closed him in. When he regained his senses, he was lying on a bench in a drug store. A clerk was holding a handkerchief, saturated with a drug of some kind, to his nostrils, and a bluecoat was standing near, twirling his club and looking down at Hiram speculatively.
"A few weeks, perhaps only days, of treatment the thyroid will revert to its normal state and Eugenia Gilman will be the mother of a new house of Atherton which may eclipse even the proud record of the founder of the old." "Who blew the whistle?" demanded a gruff voice at the door, as a tall bluecoat puffed past the scandalized butler. "Arrest that woman," pointed Kennedy. "She is the poisoner.
"I guess I had better send in a call for the patrol wagon," said one of the policemen. "Can you watch 'em, Jake?" "Sure," answered the second bluecoat. "I guess the young fellows will help." "I will," said Dick. "So will I," put in Dan. He turned to Dick. "I'm mighty glad to be of service to you. It kind of helps to to pay off old scores, eh?" he faltered.
"Don't mention it, lady," the policeman called after her, tapping his baton on the rim of his helmet, as a mark of elegant courtesy. She was not at ease until, looking back, she no longer saw the bluecoat for the intervening crowds.
Oh, yes," grinned the strange policeman. "He has taken two-months' leave and goes over to see his ould mother, in Oireland. His home address, sure, I don't know. Mayhap the sergeant can tell ye." While the bluecoat sauntered away, Ferris mentally recorded another mistake. "I should have thrown the hat-box after the hat," he murmured. "A few hundred dollars would have been well spent.
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