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Bransome it appeared to be fine sport, for he fired at least twenty shots at the man before he shouldered his rifle and went indoors.
"I fear I must," said Bransome; "but I I don't like the look of those cursed rollers." At this Jackson laughed, and said something about "being afraid of very little." "The beach is perfectly good," he added; "Sooka knows, and Sooka is the oldest patrao on the Point."
Coulson continued, "and yet it is a matter with so many ramifications that after much discussion it might become a veritable chaos." Mr. Smith inclined his head gently. "I appreciate the situation," he said. "My friend here Sir Edward Bransome and I have already discussed the matter at great length.
Bransome got to know of this, and was offended at it, I do not know, but shortly afterward he ceased to live with us. There was between the factory and the sea, and a little to the right of the former, a small wooden cottage which had been allowed to fall into a dilapidated state from want of some one to live in it. This Mr.
As it was, when the edge of his hunger was blunted he felt drowsy, and, curling himself up among the roots of hemlock, sank into slumber under the open sky. Early next morning Bransome stopped him on the trail.
"There is a person in the anteroom, sir," he said, "whom I think that you ought to see." The Duke nodded and passed on. The Secretary drew his chief on one side. "This man has just arrived from Paris, sir," he continued, "and is the bearer of a letter which he is instructed to deliver into your hands only." Bransome nodded. "Is he known to us at all?" he asked. "From whom does the letter come?"
The rich wet meadows were heavy with flag and blossom to the edge of the driftwood frieze, and the splash of rising trout alone disturbed the reflection of the mighty trunks and branches crowning a promontory on the farther side. "It is very beautiful, and now you are going to spoil it all, Mr. Bransome," said Helen. The rancher glanced at her with admiration in his eyes.
Many years ago it had seemed so to Bransome himself. It was a post which he had deliberately coveted, worked for, and strived for. And now, when in sight of the end, with two years of office only to run, he was appalled at the ever-growing responsibilities thrust upon his shoulders.
The man, of course, was Bransome, there was no doubt as to that, although he had received a terrible blow on the left temple, most likely from the pointed stem of the boat as it had toppled over upon him, and his face was distorted and twisted to one side.
Bransome the clues to the letter-locks on the doors of the various store-rooms; for we on the coast used none but letter-locks, which are locks that do not require a key to open them. But Mr.
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