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Updated: June 13, 2025
The past was like a dream to him the present a bright vision the future a paradise! Glenn and Mary were seated together, regarding with impatience the brief preparations to embark. Boone, Roughgrove, Sneak, and Joe were busily engaged lading the vessel. Sneak had hastily brought thither his effects, and without a throe of regret abandoned his house for ever to the owls.
I asked for some food, and while it was being prepared I wrote the following lines on a blank leaf of a book belonging to my dead friend: I left Glenn next morning, with still some hope remaining, and sought out my friend to learn his success and prospects.
"What’s a frank-tiroor?" inquired Sticky Smith. "And who’ll hang us?" shouted Kid Glenn from the deck of the moving steamer. "The Germans will if they catch you in that uniform," retorted the battered soldier of fortune derisively. "You chorus-boy mule drivers will wish you wore overalls and one suspender if the Dutch Kaiser nails you!"
The hours wore on in peace, until midnight, when a low chattering, like that of a squirrel, was heard in the valley below; while a shrill whistling, resembling that of quails was distinguished above. "Come hither!" exclaimed Boone in a whisper to Glenn. "Do you see any of them?" inquired Glenn, joining his friend. "Not yet but we will see enough of them presently.
Glenn ordered Joe, who was in the stable caressing the horses, to feed the drooping pet instantly. The party then entered the house, leading in the chief, and soon after Sneak had a bright fire blazing on the hearth. The food that remained from the last repast amply sufficed, the captive refusing to partake with them, and Joe having dined during the last twelve miles of the journey on the way.
She showed Carley how to open the little stove and put the short billets of wood inside and work the damper; and cautioning her to keep an eye on it so that it would not get too hot, she left Carley to herself. Carley found herself in an unfamiliar mood. There came a leap of her heart every time she thought of the meeting with Glenn, so soon now to be, but it was not that which was unfamiliar.
"Well, I can't say I do exactly," said Joe; "but I know its a very mysterious matter." "What is such a mysterious matter?" asked Glenn, smiling. "Why, you Miss Mary" stammered Joe. "Well, what is there mysterious about us?" "Hang it, you know!" replied Joe.
Glenn knelt at the edge of the brook, and, plunging his hands in, he splashed like a huge dog and bathed his hot face and head, and then turned to Carley with gay words and laughter, while he wiped himself dry with a large red scarf. Carley was not proof against the virility of him then, and at the moment, no matter what it was that had made him the man he looked, she loved it.
That means four hours' guard duty apiece." "That's reasonable enough," Frank agreed. I'll take the first watch, if it's agreeable." "Any way suits me," declared Captain Glenn. "Then I'll pick you for second watch, Captain," said Jack. "I'll take the third. That will leave the day watch for Williams, Allen and Timothy." Thus it was arranged. Frank began his watch at six o'clock that evening.
She watched Glenn as he gazed thoughtfully into the amber depths of the fire. What was going on in his mind? Carley's old perplexity suddenly had rebirth. And with it came an unfamiliar fear which she could not smother. Every moment that she sat there beside Glenn she was realizing more and more a yearning, passionate love for him.
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