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"Wot yer say?" said Collinson, with a vague suspicion. "What I mean. You think yourself justified in believing your wife dead, because she did not seek you here; may she not feel herself equally justified in believing the same of you, because you had not sought her elsewhere?"
Last of all he sent an officer to Collinson and the Camel Corps with orders that they should swing round to their right rear and close the open part of the "V". By these movements the army, instead of facing south in echelon, with its left on the river and its right in the desert, was made to face west in line, with its left in the desert and its right reaching back to the river.
The next time Mammy Otello appeared, Mr Collinson placed a gold piece in her hand. "Here, madame," he said; "I beg that you will accept this as a mark of how sensible we are of your kindness; and I beg to assure you, that, if you can give us better accommodation, we will gladly pay for it."
But we are anticipating the events of our deeply interesting and melancholy history. Captain Collinson and his companions reached their ship on the 31st of May, after an absence of forty-nine days. It will be thus seen, that in justice the honour should be awarded to Captain Collinson and his followers, equally with Captain McClure and his, of having discovered the North-West Passage.
It was evident, indeed, that he needed it, for, in spite of his courage, anxiety was preying upon him, and his health and strength were failing. Bill watched him anxiously. "It will never do if he gives in," he said to himself, and he thought how he could best arouse him. Whenever Mr Collinson was within hearing, Bill talked more cheerfully than ever.
Doctor Franklin was a very modest man, and he wrote a letter to Peter Collinson, member of the Royal Society of London, dated Philadelphia, Oct. 16, 1752, describing the experiment without even hinting that he was the experimenter.
"We shall be slipping down to the bottom, rather," said Old Grim. "Though we have been pumping away till we have nearly pumped our arms off, the water has been gaining upon us for the last two days, to my knowledge. It comes in all round the vessel, and human power can no longer keep her afloat." Even Mr Collinson looked graver than he had done for some time.
While they were employed, they constantly looked up to the vessel to see if she was drifting away, but she seemed rather to get nearer than farther off. So eager had they been, that no one had thought of breakfast. Mr Collinson, however, insisted that they should take a good meal before starting.
Some of them were talking of friends they expected to find; others were proposing rides up the country to Rock Fort, and other places; some talked of going over to Spanish Town, the capital of the island. "Well, Collinson, and do you expect to find your friends the Lydalls here?" asked Mr Barker. "He wouldn't be looking so happy if he did not," said the master.
"Who's come?" said Collinson, staring at her. "The sheriff and his posse! They're surrounding them now. Don't you hear?" she gasped. There was a strange rattling in the direction of the mill, a dull rumble, with wild shouts and outcries, and the trampling of feet on its wooden platform.
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