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Hunnewell; "but he was in bad odor with the colonel, I heard, long before Cedar Mountain. He would have 'broken' him if it had not been for Hollins's intercessions." "I mean his antecedents, before the outbreak of the war, not in the regiment. Where did Hollins get him?
Abbot is forced to confess that he knows nothing of his antecedents, and that he was made quartermaster-sergeant at Hollins's request, at a time when nobody had a very adequate idea of what his duties might be. "Who had charge of the distribution of the regimental mail all winter and spring?" asks the secret-service man, after looking over some memoranda. "The quartermaster, ordinarily.
Her blue frock was torn, and over it she wore a rough brown apron, caught up at one corner to the waist. Her bare forearms were of brick-red colour. "What is it?" demanded the assistant. Miss Insull looked over her shoulder across the shop. "It must be Maggie's Mrs. Hollins's daughter!" said Miss Insull under her breath.
And he and the other man now with him seemed to take just as keen an interest in what Chisholm and I had to tell; but while Murray was full of questions to both of us, they asked none. Only during that questioning the man whom I had never seen before quietly lifted the hanging which I had spread over Hollins's dead body, and took a searching look at his face. Mr.
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