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Griffith bowed respectfully, but in silence, when the other continued, shaking his hand contemptuously towards the land: "Had I but a moiety of the navy of that degenerate republic, the proudest among those haughty islanders should tremble in his castle, and be made to feel there is no security against a foe that trusts his own strength and knows the weakness of his enemy!
Just then we were joined by half a dozen men from the watch-tower and by four others led by Griffith Hawke. The redskins wavered, fell back, and bolted in panic for their lives. Ten of them we shot down or clubbed, and as many succeeded in scrambling over the stockade. It had been a close shave, but the fort was saved for the present. "Blaze away, or they'll be in again!" cried the factor.
As she read these words a knife seemed to enter her heart, the pang was so keen. But she soon took herself to task. "Thou naughty woman," said she. "What! jealous of the dead?" She wrapped the bullet up; put it carefully away; had a good cry; and was herself again. But all this set her watching Griffith, and reading his face.
It contains about four thousand acres of first-class wheat or corn land; the remainder is composed of excellent pasturage; there are only a few thousand sheep, and a few cattle and horses on this rancho. It has for several years been cultivated by Morehead and Griffith, under a private arrangement with the owner.
After you pulled out the last time after the competition, he put in plans and got the Michamac Bridge." "You're joking!" cried Blake. "He got it? that gent!" "You'll remember that all who took part in the competition failed on the long central span," said Griffith. "No!" contradicted Blake. "I didn't. I tell you, it was just as I wrote you I'd do. I worked out a new truss modification.
These advertisements had not been out a fortnight, when Griffith Gaunt came home, as I have related. But Mr. Atkins had punished Mrs. Gaunt for her insouciance, by not informing her of the extent of her good fortune; so she merely told Griffith, casually, that old Griffith Gaunt had left him some money, and the solicitor, Mr. Atkins, could not get on without him.
But it was a very long moment before Griffith came in with a pitcher and three glasses upon a battered tray. At the tinkle of the glasses Blake looked up, his face aflame. He made a clutch at the pitcher. Griffith gave him his shoulder, and cackled: "Don't play the hog, Tommy. I've been up in Canada enough to know that the nobility always get first helping. Eh, Lord Scarbridge?"
Notwithstanding the object of their expedition was of a public nature, the feelings which had induced both Griffith and Barnstable to accompany the Pilot with so much willingness, it will easily be seen, were entirely personal.
"Too busy over this Arizona dam," said Griffith, jerking his pipe towards the drawings on his desk. "What dam?" demanded Blake, bending forward, keenly alert. "Zariba big Arizona irrigation project. Simple as A, B, C, except the dam itself. That has stumped half a dozen of the best men. Promoters are giving me a try at it now. But I'm beginning to think I've bitten off more 'n I can chew."
Griffith Owen, the first of these unhappy criminals, was the son of very honest parents who had given him a very good education in respect both of letters and religion.
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