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The Employment of Hanoverian Regiments at Gibraltar and Minorca. End of the War. Colonial Policy of the Present Reign. Complaints of the Undue Influence of the Crown. Motions for Parliamentary Reform. Mr. Burke's Bill for Economical Reform. Mr. Dunning's Resolution on the Influence of the Crown. Rights of the Lords on Money-bills. The Gordon Riots. Changes of Administration.
Seagrue is a man-killer, but a square one." "How do you know?" "I will tell you sometime but this was not Seagrue." "One of Dunning's men, was it? Stormy Gorman?" "No, no, a very different sort! Stormy is a wind-bag. The man that is after you is in town at this minute, and he has come to stay until he finishes his job." "The devil! That's what makes your eyes so bright, is it? Do you know him?"
When the river rose, the earlier talk of Dunning's men had been that the Crawling Stone would put an end to the railroad pretensions by washing the two hundred and fifty miles of track back to the Peace River, where it had started.
Dunning's second resolution, and that the words, "it is competent to this House to examine into and to correct abuses in the expenditure," were meant to imply a denial of the competency of the other House to institute, or even to share in, such an examination.
'Do you know anything about a man named John Harrington? Gayton was thoroughly startled, and at the moment could only ask why. Then the complete story of Dunning's experiences came out what had happened in the tramcar, in his own house, and in the street, the troubling of spirit that had crept over him, and still held him; and he ended with the question he had begun with.
He's a bad-tempered party, I imagine. Conversation dropped again; Gayton became more and more strongly impressed with the desolateness that came over Dunning's face and bearing, and finally though with a considerable effort he asked him point-blank whether something serious was not bothering him. Dunning gave an exclamation of relief. 'I was perishing to get it off my mind, he said.
Even when the proceedings had been closed, a strong current of discontent set from the managing head of the Stone Ranch. Rumors of Lance Dunning's dissatisfaction often reached the railroad people.
Harrington, who knew a neighbour of Karswell's, thought he saw a way of keeping a watch on his movements. It would be Dunning's part to be in readiness to try to cross Karswell's path at any moment, to keep the paper safe and in a place of ready access. They parted.
That evening Captain Dunning supped with Ailie and his sisters in low spirits. Glynn and the doctor and Tim Rokens and the two mates, Millons and Markham, supped with him, also in low spirits; and King Bumble acted the part of waiter, for that sable monarch had expressed an earnest desire to become Captain Dunning's servant, and the captain had agreed to "take him on," at least for a time.
And being now invigorated, both in body and mind, by what had occurred during their call at the retreat of their mysterious friend they pressed on so rapidly, for the next three or four hours, that they arrived at Dunning's cabin, in Westminster, just as the first faint flush of daylight appeared in the east.
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