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"Did you want to see me?" he asked, seeing Jenkins and Calthorpe. "Yes, I guess so," stammered Jenkins. "You're at the head of the ingineers, ain't ye?" "I am with them," Percival replied. "You are one of the men who tried to stop us, aren't you? You are Jenkins, I believe?" "Yes, that's me. What I wanted to say is this.
"Who who are you?" she demanded, in a voice scarcely louder than a whisper. The stranger gazed at her with a fixed look. "Arthur Arthur Calthorpe!" he faltered. "No you are not!" They drew toward each other unconsciously, as though moving in a dream. "No one no one ever knew that song but " Mrs. Collingwood came closer, and uttered a sudden low cry: "My son!" "Mother!"
"So you thought you'd come here and make trouble for us?" "Huh! I only got here just now. Me and a friend was motoring and heard that there were some surveyors around, and we came to watch them." "Then you were not talking to Jenkins and Calthorpe and the other squatters and telling them that we wanted to ruin their farms?"
It was, I believe, the first house erected on the Calthorpe estate. In this house, in April, 1799, Robert Walter Winfield, the third son, was born. His father died in his childhood. After his education was complete, his mother placed him with Mr. Benjamin Cooke, whose name as a manufacturer is still remembered in Birmingham. Mr.
If it had remained she felt she must scream. Instead she smiled over at him, and indicated the newspaper. "The Calthorpe Times, isn't it?" she said without a tremor. "Can't say." The harsh tone was intended to convey indifference. "Won't you open it?" she asked. "Maybe Jeff's marked a piece." Then Bud gave a display such as Nan had never witnessed in him before.
"And so this was what you sent to us for?" said Jack. "You might have known you would get nothing. Come, Dick. Come, Billy. There is no use wasting any more time on these fellows." "You look out that we don't go on our own hook and stop your workin' the branch," snarled Calthorpe. "We can make trouble for you and we "
So great a favorite did he become with Calthorpe that when he asked to be allowed to steer, the favor was readily granted to him, and he proved very proficient. Certainly Calthorpe did not know he was a suspected murderer and had been a thief, and neither Steel nor Giles said anything about this. Steel, indeed, still held to the belief that Dane was guilty; but Ware laughed at him.
ON my arrival at the Havana I found that Durham, who was still an invalid, had taken up his quarters at Mr. Crauford's, the Consul-General. Phoca, who was nearly well again, was at the hotel, the only one in the town. And who should I meet there but my old Cambridge ally, Fred, the last Lord Calthorpe.
We got to lie around crazy enough to fancy we're goin' to git the drop on these bums. What a country! What a cuss of a lay-out wher' you got to set around watching a darnation gang o' toughs whittlin' away your work till they got you beat to a mush. Here, I'm goin' to start right in. I'm goin' to get around Calthorpe. The sheriff's got to git busy, an' earn his monthly pay check.
Collingwood, however, shook her head when Joyce announced who was outside. "I do not remember any one named Calthorpe, and I scarcely feel that I can see a stranger now. But we must not be inhospitable. Miss Cynthia and I will go and sit in the library, and you can bring him into the drawing-room a few moments. There is no other part of the house that can very well be shown."
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