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"Yes; and those nurses on her deck don't look a bit like nuns," replied Ensign Comly. "Believe I'll make a call if we lie here this evening, for I understand that some of the nicest girls in the country have enlisted under the Red Cross since you chaps were sent to Santiago." "Wish I could join you," sighed Ridge; "only I haven't spoken to a girl in so long that I shouldn't know what to say."
And yet the more I resolved to get her out of my mind the more stubbornly she'd keep coming into my thoughts. "I suppose in a way it was my pride; I hated to think that a girl as pretty and clever and attractive as she is thought me a contemptible, slinking coward. We all want to be heroes to women; it's one of the damned weaknesses of our sex, Comly.
"Yes, me and Teddy " began Rollo, but Ridge silenced him that they might hear the continuation of the Ensign's story. "At three o'clock on Friday morning, the 3d," resumed Comly, "the Merrimac left the fleet and steamed in towards Santiago entrance.
"Isabel is very busy, as usual," said Ruth, "but if Mr. Comly is a good strategist, he will not fail to find her again. Isabel, you know " "Isabel!" exclaimed the Governor. "Not really " "Yes, really," Archie answered, his voice hoarse as he raised it above the music. The Governor struck his gloved hands together smartly.
Comly can give the final twist to prehistoric art. I'll be down at once." "Very well; you will find them in my bag in the hall. I must start home very soon, you know." "I had hoped you would spend the night here," said the Governor; "but if you won't I'm grateful even for this little glimpse."
His father wants to send him into the country for the summer to some place where he'll have good air, and quiet, and moderate exercise, and Friend Speakman spoke of us. I thought I'd mention it to thee, and if thee thinks well of it, we can send word down next week, when Josiah Comly goes" "What does THEE think?" asked his wife, after a pause
"That's a great scheme," replied Ridge, with a sorrowful little smile, "but I am afraid it wouldn't work, and so there is nothing left for me but submission to the inevitable. I do hate to go with Dodley, though." Just here Ensign Comly appeared on the scene with his brother, whom he was bidding farewell. "I say, Comly!" cried Rollo, who knew him, "why can't you set my friend Norris here ashore?
Shortly before Winthrop's departure from England, Gorges had sent that singular personage Sir Christopher Gardiner to look after his interests in the New World, and there he was presently found established near the mouth of the Neponset river, in company with "a comly yonge woman whom he caled his cousin."
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