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"I thought I knew the nature of the services required of me, but my employment by this typical English aristocrat, hide-bound with caste traditions as he could not fail to be, since he had spent five years of his official life in India, surprised me very greatly. Accordingly, having made suitable preparation I accompanied Sir Burnham's servant back to the residence of the baronet...."
There was a youthful glad light in John Burnham's face when he turned his back on the deserted college, for he, too, was on his way at last to the hills and St. Hilda. As he swept through the Blue-grass he almost smiled upon the passing fields.
His next invention was granted him Dec. 24, 1867, which he called Burnham's improved central and vertical discharge turbine. Two 42-inch wheels of this pattern were built and put into operation, but they soon commenced leaking water and became troublesome on account of the many small pieces of castings and bolts, and were abandoned as worthless.
The evidence concerning the railroad disaster and the rescue of Robert Burnham's child from the wreck is too well established by the testimony to be upset now by such a story as yours." "Ah! let me explain that matter to you. The train that went through the bridge was the express. The local was twenty minutes behind it. Old Simon and his grandchild were on the local to the bridge.
"In brief, the mortgagee agreed, in the event of Sir Burnham's death, to allow the widow to retain possession of the property for life, whether payments fell in arrears or otherwise!" "But this " I exclaimed. "Is, as a friend of yours once remarked, as mad as 'Alice in Wonderland'! I agree. But to continue. At the time that this extraordinary agreement was drawn up, Mr.
Burnham in this matter?" inquired the judge, addressing the assembly of lawyers. An elderly man, short and thick-set, with gray hair and moustache, arose, and said: "I have been informed, as Mrs. Burnham's attorney, that such a proceeding as this was in contemplation.
Burnham's squad moved through the open gate at a quick but noiseless pace, Jonas and his keepers leading the way, and in a few minutes disappeared in the darkness.
In the midst of all his fancies he realized his danger. He knew that death had ceased to be a possibility for him, and had come to be more than probable. He felt that it would be very sad indeed to die in this way, alone, in the dark, in the galleries of this old mine; it was not the way Robert Burnham's son should have died.
The chief incident of this campaign, the fame of which rang over all Great Britain and her colonies, was the gallant but hopeless stand made by Major Alan Wilson and his patrol of thirty-four men. It was Burnham's attempt to save these men that made him known from Buluwayo to Cape Town.
A moment later a boy arose from a chair in the outer office and staggered out into the street. It was Ralph. He had heard it all. Ralph had entered the office just as Rhyming Joe reached the point of his disclosure. He had heard him declare, in emphatic tones: "I say the boy Ralph is not Robert Burnham's son." It was as though some one had struck him.
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