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"Are you all ready, Ethan?" called the pilot through the tube. "All ready; but don't you think we had better hoist the flags, and go over in good style?" responded the engineer. "Aye, aye." The small American flag and the union jack, which had been taken from the poles the night before, and deposited in the locker of the wherry, were displayed, and Lawry returned to his post.
And when I think that this exposure of their precious lives was my own fault; that my wife and her sister had nearly perished by my foolish haste and recklessness, I feel like giving every dollar I have in the world to Lawry. You don't understand this matter as I do, Mrs. Wilford." "I didn't think you were in any great danger."
That's the way men make money." Lawry was by no means satisfied with this explanation. He went into the boat, and carefully searched every part of it. His father watched him with considerable interest, declaring that it was useless to look for what had not been lost. "You had better go up and see Mr. Sherwood now," said Mr. Wilford. "I have been up, and he was not at home."
Sherwood declared that, if the boat had been destroyed, he would have built another, and presented her to Lawry and Ethan, for he was too much interested in the steamboat experiment to have it abandoned. Mrs. Wilford trembled when she learned that the robbers had been armed with pistols.
"Go ahead, then," replied the engineer. "As soon as I make fast the wherry astern." Before he went to the wheel-house he sounded the pumps again, and visited the forehold to examine the oilcloth over the aperture in the bow. There was but little water in the well, and the canvas carpet was faithful to its duty. There was nothing to fear, though Lawry couldn't help fearing.
Now the dear little craft lies on the bottom of the lake, broken and spoiled!" "I shouldn't dare to put my foot in her again," added Miss Fanny. "I shudder when I think of her." "I shudder when I think of you, Fanny. You were sinking when Lawry dived down after you," said Mr. Sherwood. "We ought all to be grateful to God for His mercy in saving us," added Fanny Jane.
Randall seized the garment with convulsive energy, and with trembling hands felt for the pocketbook in which the six thousand dollars had been kept. "It is gone!" gasped he; and he seemed ready to sink down in the bottom of the boat when he discovered his loss. "Gone!" exclaimed John Wilford. "What's the matter?" asked Lawry.
This morning the Lord Lieutenant signed a warrant for the pardon of Lawry, a Scotch man, minister in the county of Fermanagh, and his five servants, for killing five notorious Tories in that countrey, wounding two others to death, as is believed, and takeing the eighth.
He could not look the loved ones in the face, after the crime he had committed. The smaller children, who had been at play around the house, were now gathered about the group, unable fully to comprehend the terrible misfortune which had befallen them; though, as they gazed on Lawry and their mother, they could not help realizing that something very sad had happened.
Wilford was in great tribulation lest the man who now held the mortgage upon the little farm should insist upon being paid, as there was now no hope that, the debtor, in prison, would be able to do anything. Lawry told her that the steamboat would enable them to pay all claims upon his father. Mrs.
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