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When we reached the middle of the river I forced the story of the coincidence from him by reasoning and threats." "Ha! ha!" exclaimed Calvin Van de Lear. "Is this an Arkansas snake story?" "The young Zane had gratified a wilful passion to penetrate the residence of his father, and look at its inmates and the situation from safe harborage there.
Here they had separated, eight of them coasting the south side of Lake Ontario to find harborage at Albany, a common refuge at that time of this class of scoundrels; while the remaining twelve, in three canoes, made for Fort Frontenac along the north shore, intending to kill La Salle as the surest means of escaping punishment. He lost no time in lamentation.
It was a perfect pasture, a perfect hiding-place, watered by a broad running stream; sheltered from all cold and storm. No wonder then that the celebrated outlaw, Peter Retief, had chosen it for his haunt and the harborage of his ill-gotten stock. With characteristic method the two set about "roping" the magnificent crested horse they had come to capture.
Land was sighted at 42, north of Mendocino, and an effort made to anchor farther north; but contrary winds and a rock bottom gave insecure mooring. This was not surprising, as it was on this coast that Cook and Vancouver failed to find good harborage.
A tidbit to the serpent was a man, but he did not get one in half a century. Not long did the boys remain even in a harborage so distant. Each fled homeward with his story. It was with scant breath, when they reached their respective caves, that the boys told the story of the dread which had invaded the marsh-land.
Bayliss followed with the fidelity and closeness of a little dog. Now, the next car ahead proved to be the smoking car. Here, at any rate, the despised pair could find safe harborage. But one of the men of Gridley, who had followed the football team this day, and who had got an inkling of the story of the arrest, removed a cigar from between his lips and pointed an accusing finger at the boys.
Of these welcome opportunities, the building of the Carlton Hotel is the best remembered within recent times; but the erection of new houses off St. James' Street in the year 1903 brought the ladies and the gentlemen of the road again to its harborage; and they basked there for many weeks in undisputed possession. The orgies thus became a nightly feature of the vagrant's life.
Lawrence rolled through a virgin wilderness, where, in the vastness of the lonely woodlands, civilized man found a precarious harborage at three points only, at Quebec, at Montreal, and at Three Rivers. Here and in the scattered missions was the whole of New France, a population of some three hundred souls in all. And now, over these miserable settlements, rose a war-cloud of frightful portent.
The fleet consisted of twenty-two ships of the line, with frigates, sloops-of-war, and a great number of transports. When Admiral Saunders arrived with his squadron off Louisbourg, he found the entrance blocked by ice, and was forced to seek harborage at Halifax.
When it had mounted almost beyond the strongest inner circle of the lantern light, it rose with a sudden impetus, as though drawn up by an electric fan. Terry wondered at it, and squinted toward the ceiling, but the ceiling was lost in shadow. He returned to his harborage between the two buildings for a fresh session of thought. And then his idea came to him.
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