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Thomas could not help it; he had to go. But he said as he passed by her, 'Take care, mother; you are involving yourself in something serious. Her Majesty's brig Fly-by-Night will be aground in about two twinkles!
There, spread broadcast by the types, was the story of how Janice had come to Poketown alone, a brief picture of her loneliness without her father, something of the free reading-room Janice had been the means of establishing, and a description of the flight down the lake on the Fly-by-Night on Christmas morning, that she might gain further particulars of her father's fate.
"This woman's name was Marie all right, and she was French, although she seems to have been adopted by some people named Dubois and brought up in California. She was quite the proper thing in high society, but the trouble was that she liked another sort better. She was a regular fly-by-night.
'I'm afraid that's a long way off yet, said he, lightly. 'Oh no, it isn't, said Nan timorously. 'I am sure it is no great secret you will know to-morrow you are to be appointed to-morrow to the command of the Fly-by-Night! His face flushed a deep red. 'You are joking, Miss Beresford. 'Oh no, I am not, said Nan, hastily.
But to change the subject," Asher said smiling, "I thought we should have company for dinner. I saw Darley Champers and another fellow head in here before us. Darley is in clover now, planning to charter a town for every other section on Grass River. Did you know the man who was with him?" "That's one fly-by-night calling himself Thomas Smith. Innocent name and easy to lose if you don't want it.
I figure the Australian people will not go over forty thousand dollars. They won't figure Jinks as a heavyweight. I told him to create the impression that he was a professional wrecker a sort of fly-by-night junk dealer, who would buy the vessel if he could get her at a great bargain.
I had promised Jack and Molly to tell them in my letters, whether it would be possible for them, with a motor, to go by some of the routes which I chose. Over the St. Bernard from Martigny to the Hospice they could not have ventured, even in the stealthy, fly-by-night manner in which they had "done" the St. Gothard and the Simplon; for on the St.
I don't see them taking any soundings; and the notion of bringing a man-o'-war in here He went and got an opera-glass, and returned to the window. He would make observations; perhaps, if need were, he might put off in a small boat and offer to assist in the navigation of the ship. 'Young women, he exclaimed, suddenly, 'a light strikes me. That's the Fly-by-night.
'Oh, Lieutenant King, do you know a ship called the Fly-by-Night? she said, quite casually, and in an off-hand way. 'Yes, he said, regarding her with some surprise. 'She's what they call a school-brig a training brig. I think she's at Plymouth. 'A training-brig? said Nan, innocently. 'Then they want a clever officer, I suppose, to be in command of a training-brig.
Here he stole two fresh horses, and loading one with all the buckskins, he put her on and headed her down the Eagle Trail to Black River. She now knew where she was, but was nearly dying from the exhaustion of his fly-by-night expeditions.
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