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But do not credit such things. It was half a dozen years before Pontiac's death that Celeste Barbeau was kidnaped on her wedding day. She lived at Prairie du Pont; and though Prairie du Pont is but a mile and a half south of Cahokia, the road was not as safe then as it now is. My mother was one of the bridesmaids; she has told it over to me a score of times.
I don't believe Gordon has been kidnaped at all. It's a false alarm, I tell you. Who could have done such a thing?" "Who?" The question broke Dorothy's patience. "Who's done everything that's abominable and contemptible lately here in Crawling Water? That Moran did it, of course, with Senator Rexhill behind him. Oh!" "Nonsense!" said her mother, indignantly. "Lem Trowbridge thinks so.
"And that old general looked rather queer in that red and gilt bob-tailed Eton jacket," said Cleary. "Yes, rather." "Convenient for spanking, I suppose." "The captain next to me told me a lot about Bobbets," said Sam. "Wasn't he nearly kidnaped in South Africa?" "Yes; that comes of sending generals away from home who only weigh ninety-five pounds. We hadn't any such trouble with Laughter.
But he by no means expected what actually came. "Ivor, she's been kidnaped!" Mr. Dacre did what he had never been known to do before within the memory of man he dropped his eyeglass. "Datchet!" "She has! Some scoundrel has decoyed her away, and trapped her.
There was too fine a streak in her to break out in recrimination. She was too proud to cry. So that she went to bed in a ferment of helpless rage. Virtually she was a prisoner, as much so as if Charlie had kidnaped her and held her so by brute force. The economic restraint was all potent. Without money she could not even leave the camp.
"I have taken the very great liberty," he said, "of making the Duke Louis Delgado an enforced guest on the yacht where he awaits Your Majesty's pleasure." "When the Duke avowed himself to be kidnaped, he committed an error so grave that it can hardly be overestimated." The speaker used the last word as an afterthought. His first inclination was to say, forgiven.
The Captain of Police and other officers were at hand to help the missionary, and when the girl was taken, she struggled frantically and called for help as though being kidnaped. Had the policemen been there alone they would have let the captors have their slave, believing they had made a mistake.
This committee met, and decided that the objects of the "Chinese Society for the Protection of Women and Children" should he as follows: 1. The detection and suppression of kidnapers and kidnaping. 2. The restoration to their homes of women and children decoyed or kidnaped for prostitution, emigration, or slavery. 3.
"Thet's a thing what's puzzled us fer years, miss. Some thinks Wegg were a piret; some thinks he kidnaped thet pretty wife o' his'n an' took her money; some thinks he tried to rob ol' Will Thompson, an' Will killed him an' then went crazy hisself. There's all sorts o' thinks goin' 'round; but who knows?" "Don't you, Mr. McNutt?" The agent was flattered by the question.
"An English gentleman, sir, kidnaped by the Spaniards and carried to Mexico, where I have undergone torments at the hands of the Inquisitors. I was a galley slave on board yonder vessel." "How many Englishmen are there with you?" "At least forty." "Does the ship carry treasure?" "Yes, sir," I answered; "and she also carries two of the most cruel wretches that ever walked the earth."
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