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As Dodge was a heavier man, and not badly schooled in fistics, Dick had the good sense to go at this fight coolly, taking time to exercise his judgment. "What's it all about?" demanded Wadleigh. Just for an instant Bayliss felt himself stumped. Then, all of a sudden, an inspiration in lying came to him.
In advancing from the Chattahoochee, the arrangements Sherman made for the supply of his army provided separate lines for the trains of the three columns. McPherson' s wagons would reach him from Marietta by way of Roswell and the bridge which General Dodge built there.
The woods round about them were filled with dragons and fabulous beasts, whose tracks they detected with the eyes of faith; and they started out every morning, during the all too brief vacation, on imaginary expeditions against imaginary monsters. But she flung it back at him with such force that he had to dodge with more adroitness than dignity.
General Grant knew them all personally, and said if General Dodge were not connected with the Union Pacific Railroad, with which the Secretary of War must necessarily have large transactions, he would choose him, but as the case stood, and remembering the very excellent speech made by General Belknap at the Chicago reunion of December, 1868, he authorized me to communicate with him to ascertain if he were willing to come to Washington as Secretary of War.
"This Dodge business has all the ear-marks of another affair of Army honor settled unofficially by the corps of cadets." Dodge's letter was published in a special order then read before the corps of cadets, and the affair was closed. Dick and Greg continued to play in the Army nine the rest of that spring.
Experience had taught the master brain of the British army that it was useless longer to chase De Wet up and down over the face of the earth. The Boer general was familiar with every crack and cranny of that earth. He knew where to hide, where to dodge, where to scurry away as fast as his convoy train could bear him company.
The members of the firm sat in their private office. Sloper was a long, sanctimonious individual, very religious and very bald. Dodge was a little, fat American, with bristly, black hair and beard, and quick, beady eyes. He was eternally smoking a reeking black pipe, and puffing the smoke through his nose in great whiffs, like a locomotive on a steep grade.
You can train yourself to live the life of the native, but you can't train your mind to think as he thinks. That's how the missteps happen. Some day...." He sighed, not in the least unhappily.... "Some day I'll dodge into this hole, or another that I know of, put on somebody else's rags say, these I'm wearing and inconspicuously become a mysterious disappearance.
She was stopped, fortunately, by the perception that, amazingly, the statue was more actual than Dodge Pleydon. It touched the center of her life more nearly. Why, she didn't know. If her mental confusion increased by as much as a feeling, Linda thought, she would be close to madness. It was unbearable at practically forty.
You get into and out of Ensenada by steamboat only, except back to the mines on foot or donkey. The two days I had to wait over in San Diego for the boat which would follow the one Skeels had taken were a mighty uneasy time. If I'd imagined for a moment that he wasn't on the dodge that he was there openly I'd have wired the Mexican authorities, and had him waiting for me in jail.
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