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To which Cummings replied: "It is I, be not afraid," at the same time poking Moriarity in the ribs, and chuckling: "I haven't forgotten my Bible yet, eh, Dan?" A blanket was lifted to one side, and disclosed to view the entrance to a natural cave, into the wall of which was stuck a naming, pitch-pine knot.
The interest of the book is that it is some more of Bruce Cummings when we could not have expected another line from him. Apart even from their literary value, it seems to me that some day his three volumes may prove to bear historic witness as important as that of Colonel Repington's diary.
"There's no danger of my going," he told them. "The Cummings people are not sending cub salesmen to promote their big Asiatic trade. What could they make by it?" Then the talk drifted to the Carbrooks. Marty said, "Well, we've spoiled your scheme a little, J.W., right here in Delafield. Joe Carbrook and Marcia are in China by now, and I'd like to see both of 'em as they get down to work.
Cummings' eye flared suspicion at me, and his voice was a menace. "You keep out of this, Boyne." "You tell what's up your sleeve, Cummings," I countered. "This is no witness-stand cross-examination. What you got?" But Worth answered for him, hotly, "If Cummings hasn't seventy-two thousand dollars I commissioned him to raise for me, I don't care what he's got."
Then in turn I saw that blunder by which the battery commander allowed Cummings' men the Thirty-third Virginia, I think it was deliberately to march within stone's throw of them, mistaken for Federal troops. I saw them pour a volley at short range into the guns, which wiped out their handlers, and let through the charging lines now converging rapidly upon us.
He was accompanied to the private office of the publisher by P. Q., who informed him that his discovery of what could be regarded as evidence that there was an alliance between Gibson and "Gink" Cummings had brought the situation to a point where orders were to be given by the "chief," who supervised the policy of the paper. Mr.
Circling it, and separating the scalp from the face and neck, ran a narrow fringe that was still brown, as if, changing in a night, it had lacked full time for completion. Lounsbury could not take his eyes from the huddled shape. Colonel Cummings paused beside him. "This morning," he said, speaking in an undertone, "a sentry signalled from beyond the barracks.
Cummings noted the smile, and glancing at Moriarity, said: "How would you go at it, Doctor, if you were to make the attempt?" The Doctor laughed quietly, as if he appreciated the joke, and leaning back in his chair, his thumbs in the arm-holes of his vest, his feet stretched on a chair before him, he answered: "Well, Cummings, I don't know as I would like to do it.
Cummings, the successful young surgeon, a far-away relative-by-marriage, had, in all seriousness, prescribed eighteen lotions, elixirs, powders, pills and potions, to meet each of the eighteen varied symptoms. Nine months ago this progressively developing invalidism of twenty years had culminated in what Dr. Cummings suspected to be a severe gall-stone attack.
Finally she said quietly, "I'll accept your apology, Mr. Cummings, when Worth is free."
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