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The subjoined is Captain Grenfell's letter announcing the success of his mission: H.I.M.B. Maranham, August 12, 1833. (Off Par
Weston could find no fault with this train of reasoning, which made comparatively plain Grenfell's long and unsuccessful search. "Yes," he admitted, "it's logical, and I think it's correct. I believe, from what Grenfell once said, that he crossed the range to the east of us, not far away, some years ago with another man, and he must have noticed this valley.
She paused, confused, fearful that she had gone too far. A moment later she was sure of it. A look came into his eyes that frightened her. "You've thought of me?" he said. "You must know," she replied, "that you have an unusual personality a striking one. I can go so far as to say that I remembered you when you reappeared at Mrs. Grenfell's " she hesitated.
He called out sharply as soon as he was sure of this, and his voice rang hollowly up the valley, but there was no answer until Devine slowly shook clear of his blankets. "What's the matter?" he asked. "Grenfell's gone." "Gone!" Devine was on his feet in a moment. "It looks like it," said Weston, sharply. "Can you see him?"
After paying for his ticket and Grenfell's to the station nearest the copper-mine he had about four dollars in his pocket, and he did not know what he should do if no employment were offered him when he got there. He had no doubt that he could provide for himself somehow, but Grenfell was becoming a responsibility.
In his audiences at his Sunday services are Protestants and Roman Catholics alike, and they all love him and will travel far to hear him. Norman Duncan, in that splendid book, "Doctor Grenfell's Parish," tells the story of a man who had committed a great wrong, amounting to a crime. The man was brought before Grenfell, as Labrador magistrate. He acknowledged his crime, but was defiant.
They had wandered far through the ranges, and camped beside several lonely lakes, none of which, however, proved to be the one for which they were searching, when Weston rose one morning from his lair among the dewy fern. He did it reluctantly, for during the past week he had carried Grenfell's load as well as his own, and it would have pleased him to lie still a little longer.
I am not sure that I don't rather envy him." The Bishop could respect a conviction. "Are you not forgetting Grenfell's character?" he said gently, as one speaks to a sick man. "Think of him, his nobility, his integrity, his enthusiasm, his transparent unworldliness which so often in the old days put us all to shame!"
Men certainly strike a vein or alluvial placer by the merest chance now and then, but the trained man works from indication to indication until, though he is sometimes mistaken, he feels reasonably sure as to what waits to be uncovered by the blasting charge or shovel. Grenfell's previous account of the discovery had, however, not made quite plain the fact that he had adopted the latter course.
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