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"We'll get there in time, all right, if nothing happens." "If anything breaks," she remarked, "you can usually get somebody to tow the machine home." "People are very charitable. Yes, Miss Herron." "Up to a point." And to that Archie had no rejoinder. It was perhaps as well that he did not see the smile that his passenger wore. It might have taken the edge off his revenge.
As soon as the river was opened, Grant responded freely to all the urgent demands made upon him for steamboats, forage, beef, telegraph operators, and so on. He sent Ransom to occupy Natchez, and about the 25th of July Herron arrived at Port Hudson with his division of two brigades, 3,605 effectives, with 18 guns.
This cut off the last possible chance of communication between Pemberton and Johnston, as it enabled Lauman to close up on McClernand's left while Herron intrenched from Lauman to the water's edge. At this point the water recedes a few hundred yards from the high land. Through this opening no doubt the Confederate commanders had been able to get messengers under cover of night.
Then he suddenly deluged the sinking flames of the divorce discussion with a huge outpouring of oil. Indirectly and with great secrecy he sent a complete copy of the testimony to the newspaper Herron had mentioned, the most sensational, and one of the most widely circulated in New York. The next morning Dumont had to ring three times for his secretary.
"How fast can the automobile go?" asked Miss Herron, ignoring the boy's question. "Some faster than this. But Lucy can " "Let us not discuss the matter, please." "I can't have her?" "I beg, Mr. Fraser, I beg you to center your attention on driving your machine." "Well, I will, then. I'll drive her," said the boy, grimly, "good and fast."
What had become of the absurd starchiness, which before had so maddened him, of the stiff pride, which had condescended to him as though Fraser & Co. were creatures far beneath the regard of a New England old maid? She asked him questions, she was as interested as could be in his father's plans for him. "Where will you live in Paris?" asked Miss Herron. "Oh, over in the Quarter, I hope.
At eleven o'clock Giddings began to hope that the raid was a failure, if indeed it had been a real raid. At eleven-twenty Herron played his trump card. The National Industrial Bank is the huge barometer to which both speculative and investing Wall Street looks for guidance.
The chatter of the careless girls dwindled, the faces of the rival drivers grew pale and tense. "Oh, be careful!" murmured Miss Herron. "It's very dangerous." "Very," replied Archie. "Promise me Lucy and I'll slow up." A sudden little shriek of joy and some handclapping from Mayer's tonneau interrupted what the old lady might have answered.
The man plodded on, led by some compelling fate, to the one spot in the white immensity where were living creatures. When he had approached to within fifty paces, Dick could see his eyes. They were tight closed. As the young man watched, the other opened them, but instantly blinked them shut again as though he had encountered the searing of a white-hot iron. Dick Herron understood.
Dick Herron resented the monotony, resented the deliberation necessary to so delicate a mission, resented the unvarying tug of his tump-line or the unchanging yield of the water to his paddle, resented the placidity of the older man, above all resented the meek and pathetic submissiveness of the girl. His narrow eyes concentrated their gaze ominously. He muttered to himself.
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