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She lay motionless, for the calm was complete. "Well," remarked Duff, "we're all right if we pass the bar. There would be no trouble about that with a lighter load. We can try it as we are, for our supplies will be needed; but if necessary over they go." They were already nearing the first line of breakers, when the mate detected a second sail to the left and much nearer the shore.
Who be you?" he added suspiciously. "Be you Rebels?" "Colonel Clark is my name, and I am in the service of the Commonwealth of Virginia." Duff uttered an exclamatory oath and his manner changed. "Be you Clark?" he said with respect. "And you're going after Kaskasky? Wal, the mility is prime, and the Injun scouts is keeping a good lookout.
"Come far?" asked Duff, approaching the stranger. "Quite a bit," he answered, in a quiet, courteous voice, pausing a moment in his work. "Going out?" enquired Duff. "Not yet," he said. "Going up the country first to The Post." "Ah, we have just come down from there," said Duff. "We started yesterday morning," he added, evidently hoping to surprise the man.
Now, it happened that among the customers at the cafe there were two American officers, one being Brigadier-General Duff, a brother of Andrew Halliday, the dramatic author and essayist, whose real patronymic was also Duff. My father knew Halliday through their mutual friends Henry Mayhew and the Broughs.
With a stealthy movement the gambler suddenly reached forward, drawing a revolver from another man's holster. Ere the owner was aware of the loss of the weapon Duff took full aim at Tom Reade. Crack! It was the pistol of a deputy sheriff that spoke first. That officer had been the only one to detect the gambler's action, and he had fired instantly.
Safely clear of the French cruisers, The Duff held on alone till the cloud-capped mountain-heights of Madeira hove in sight. Across the Atlantic she stood, for the intention was to sail round South America into the Pacific. But on trying to round the Cape Horn The Duff met such violent gales that Captain Wilson turned her in her tracks and headed back across the Atlantic for the Cape of Good Hope.
When his mother proposed to leave Aberdeen, now that fortune had smiled, the anguish of the boy at thought of leaving his "first love" nearly caused him a fit of sickness. And all this wealth of love was met with jeers and loud laughter, save by Mary Duff. The vibrating sensitiveness of such a child, with such a mother, must have caused a misery we can only guess.
Try to remember, Duff, that I allow myself to have no hard feelings against you. If you possibly can recover I shall be glad to hear that you've done so." Then Tom stepped over to Dr. Furniss' side, whispering to him: "Doc, you'll see to it that some clergyman is called, won't you? Any clergyman that is the most likely to reach the heart and the soul of a hardened fellow like Jim Duff." Dr.
After a moment's half-embarrassed silence Fred Ransom burst into a laugh that was wholly good-natured. "Mr. Duff, You are unusually clever at reading other's motives," he replied. "I went to school as a youngster, and learned how to read the pages of open books," the gambler confessed modestly. "So you have, as yet, no plan for compelling the young engineers to fail and quit at the Man-killer?"
They haven't even carried me into matrimony, though I remember once, at Sydney, they brought me to the brink! We must contrive an escape for Duff Lindsay." "You assume too much a great deal too much. She must be beautiful and good." "Give me a figure. She's a lily, and she draws the kind of beauty that lilies have from her personal chastity and her religious enthusiasm.
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