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Doctor Monteith, Miss Fielding." "I am glad to see you," the surgeon said warmly, taking the bag from Ruth and seizing her cold hand in his warm clasp. "We are very busy here and very short of supplies. Our stores were utterly destroyed when " He did not finish his statement, but ushered her into the compound. There were a few twinkling lights.
"Goodness me!" gasped the other, and dropped the butt of his rifle to the ground. "You sure did startle me. You're one of those boys staying with the Tingleys?" "Yes." "And here's a couple of the girls. Not Ruth Fielding?" "Oh, Jerry Sheming!" cried Ann, running forward. "You might have shot him with that gun." "Not unless I'd loaded it first," replied Jerry, with a quiet chuckle.
Young Black had scored by that time no less than eighty off his own bat, and Hardy forty-one, after being in to their own cheek exactly as long as the Inimitables' whole innings lasted. It was glorious, one hundred and eighteen without the loss of a wicket, and the bowling and fielding must have been good, as there were only seven extras all that long while our men had been in.
Fielding therefore found it ready to his hand, though the present condition of this example would lead us to suppose that he did not find his hand quite ready to it. Still, in the actual "journey," there are touches enough of the master not yet quite in his stage of mastery.
There was a light shining in a study window of the West Dormitory and that light was in the room occupied by the Triumvirate Ruth Fielding, Helen Cameron and Mercy Curtis. The two latter were abed, but awake and wondering why Ruth had not returned, and what Miss Scrimp had meant by coming to the door and telling them to leave the light burning.
Dick had been a lieutenant in the navy, and had knocked about the world in all climes, and seen no small amount of service. He had lately joined our party with Charley Fielding, a fatherless lad whom he had taken under his wing.
"A word, sir. Will Fielding is in the town, in such a passion." "Come to stop the wedding?" "He was taking a glass of ale at the 'Toad and Pickax, and you might hear him all over the yard." "What is he going to do?" "Sir, he has bought an uncommon heavy whip; he was showing it in the yard.
I was thinking of some one else. He made matters worse by a hurried correction of 'some one' to 'something. Fielding noticed the embarrassment and the correction, and drew conclusions. They were conclusions, he thought, of which Mrs. Willoughby should be advised, and he drove to her house accordingly. He had ceased to feel displeasure at Mrs.
When that evening Fielding refused to play, Dicky knew that Norman's fate had taken hold of him, and that he must watch his friend every minute that awful vigilance which kills the watcher in the end. Dicky said to himself more than once that day: "Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's woe!" But it was not Dicky who saved Fielding.
"We recommend the work to the serious and earnest attention of our readers as one of unusual interest, and as discovering the active existence, in our very midst, of a system of idolatry and blasphemy as gross as any recorded in the History of Popery." Bell's Weekly Messenger. Also, by the same Author, price 1s. Letters to Viscount Fielding on his Secession.
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