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Schenk was pretty sick, so I left a note for him. At one o'clock I got the train started, with a couple of German Landwehr in each truck and Peter and I in a horse-box. Presently I remembered Schenk's telegram, which still reposed in my pocket. I took it out and opened it, meaning to wire it from the first station we stopped at. But I changed my mind when I read it.
Wouldn't you have thought he would have more sense than this right here at home break up my service? He let her get him into the mess. I have no doubt it was her doings my poor Rudi. We have sent him away for a couple of days. I told Tekla to go be off. And she was out on the street like that with her bundle of belongings under her arm. And here I am with no servant.
"Apology: There's no apology," cries Barnes, holding out a couple of fingers of his hand, but looking towards the Colonel. "I don't know what happened any more than the dead. Did we have a row? Were there any glasses broken? The best way in such cases is to sweep 'em up. We can't mend them."
A party wrote their impressions after this manner "Visited John O'Groat's House; found little to see; came back tired and hungry; walked into a couple of tender chickens and a good piece of bacon: God save Mrs. Manson and all the Royal Family!"
The basin, they tell me, will be some ten kilometres in length; the work will cost forty million francs, and will be completed in a couple of years; it will supply the Ionian lowlands with pure water and with power for electric and other industries. And more than that. The lake is to revolutionize the Sila; to convert these wildernesses into a fashionable watering-place.
"By this time, sir, I was pretty well dazed. I forget if it was in a couple of short tacks, or in three, that we fetched Picklecombe Point on the western side. Then we put about on a long tack that carried us well outside the breakwater and came in for Cawsand Bay and safety. On this last fetch Link kicked me up and gave me the wheel again, while he went forward to hunt up the spare anchor.
"I had noticed that they had taken along my musket and pouch, which had been brought up by the fellows that guarded me. They were strapped on to a mule's pack, of which they had about a couple of dozen with them, but I little thought the gun was going to be given me again. "'Monsieur le Colonel, I said, 'I thank you from my heart.
"I think he'll pull through," observed the doctor, after watching him for a while. "I'll get a couple of nurses, and we'll give him every chance. Has he any relatives here in New York?" "No; his relatives are all in Ohio. Had they better be notified?" "Oh, I think not not unless he gets worse. He seems to be naturally strong. I suppose he's been worrying about something?" "Yes," I said.
"Might be a couple of books, or drawing tools or most anything that's neat and genteel. You see, it opens this way."
In expeditions of this kind, they captured three young monkeys and a couple of parrots, who were soon trained pets on the Cayosa, furnishing all hands with amusement. Scott and Paul shot many iguanos. These are huge lizards that abound in the tropics. The captain and crew considered this game a great delicacy and broiled and ate them with relish.
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