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"Howdy, boys!" called the mine promoter. "Glad to see you back, Mr. Dunlop," Tom nodded, while Harry smiled a welcome. "I've sent my outfit around by the other trail," explained Mr. Dunlop. "I've brought back men enough to start work in earnest. There will be a mule train here by tomorrow with donkey engines and machinery enough to start the work of mine-digging in earnest.
They stayed an hour and it was a happy one, for Mr Dunlop is a heartsome man. Was greatly taken with the improvements we had made. His wife brought a package of tea for Ailie. She made them a cup of dandelion coffee which, after their drive, they relished with her oatmeal cakes. In parting took me aside and told me if I ran short of cash to come to him. He is a friend.
They had an unpleasant time and were more than once heavily shelled, on one occasion having a narrow escape. The officers were sitting in a dug-out when an armour piercing field gun shell passed through the roof and out of the door, hurting no one. Major Griffiths and 2nd Lieut. Dunlop received slight scratches, as also did Adams, one of the batmen, but no serious damage was done.
There was the house, sure enough; but the door was of another colour, and what was this two door-plates? He drew nearer; the top one bore, with dignified simplicity, the words, "Mr. Proudfoot"; the lower one was more explicit, and informed the passer-by that here was likewise the abode of "Mr. J. A. Dunlop Proudfoot, Advocate."
Captain Dunlop fired just as the troopers dashed up to the door. "Now, Manners, steady, pick off your man," the major said, as, aided by the boys, he jammed a beam of wood between the door and the wall, at such an angle that, except by breaking it to pieces, the door could not be forced. "Now," he said, "it's my turn;" and he fired into the enraged enemy. "Now, Ned, steady.
Just Pete, as I was on board ship, as I am to everybody, and must be to you. "But just look here, Staysail, you're a sailor, and you can't make a speech. Let me speak." And speak he did without waiting for a reply. "It's all in a nutshell, dear Mr. and Mrs. Dunlop, and I'll tell you in two or three sentences what your worthy sailor-brother would have kept you up all night to hear. Now listen!
These were the questions that rankled in his mind, while Eva set the checkers in place. "Perhaps I can keep you from getting a king," she said exultantly. "If I can only keep my queen," observed the young man absently. "Why, Mr. Dunlop, there are no queens in this game; it isn't like chess." "There! you see how little I know about it," was the regretful reply.
Anne sat staring out into the gathering night. How bleak it was! how lonely-looking! She shivered and hugged Honey-Sweet close. "I'm terrible late," said Martha, bustling in and hurrying to draw the curtains and light the gas. "We had to finish putting up the greens. And Master Dunlop did bother so. Nothing would do but he must 'help. 'Help, I say!
This advice fitted in very well with the affairs of the career I had mapped out for myself a solicitor should naturally be an observant man, and I had made steady effort to do as Andrew Dunlop counselled.
"I shouldn't mind it if I were senseless," she said, "but I don't want him to think I have lost my senses again. No, we'll have to give up that idea." But Mrs. Dunlop was not the sort of person to give up an idea without good cause.
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