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Lawton's pistol was in my father's hand, cocked and primed and pointed at Mr. Sims. "Brutus," said my father, "unburden Mr. Sims of his weapons. Lawton, a breath of night air may relieve you. Let us go to the window and reflect on the slip that may occur between the container and the nose. My son, give Mr. Lawton your arm. Assist me to open the shutters. Now Mr. Lawton, call to your men.
They were perfectly willing to keep Lieutenant Lawton's box for him. But why was he so mysterious? At the southern end of the long veranda they plainly espied the figure of a man walking slowly up and down in the darkness. It was too dark to distinguish Lieutenant Lawton's uniform. The girls called faintly to the man under the trees. He did not hear them, nor move in their direction.
I thought I would go round to Lawton's place, ... but, when coming downstairs again, the thought struck me Suppose it was not Lawton? What would the latter think of my sudden appearance, my enquiries? Twelve had now struck.
"I am afraid that you will find yourself very seriously annoyed before this affair comes to an end, Mr. Rockamore," said Blaine. "Miss Lawton's butler summoned you this afternoon by my instructions, and with gratifying promptness you came and did just what I expected you would do betrayed yourself irretrievably in your haste to recover the evidence which now will hang you!"
She's a protégée of Miss Lawton's, employed in some philanthropic home or club, as she calls it, which Pennington Lawton's daughter runs." "By Jove!" Blaine exclaimed, "I might have known it! I thought there was something familiar about her appearance when I first saw her! No wonder Miss Lawton had promised not to divulge her name. It's a small world, Morrow. I'll have to look into this.
Lawton's fatuous conversation in the de Laney's drawing-room, or Maude Eliza's dressed-up self-consciousness.
Three I buried, and only one died his bed. I can tell if a man's honest or not, without giving him the second look. If you've got them checks you should get the money on them for I know their stripe. Come on with me to Jimmy Lawton's house. He's likely holding the baby while Minie does the dishes." Mrs. Hanson guessed shrewdly.
Early, commanding Ewell's division, reported the three brigades to number: Lawton's 1,150 Hayes's 550 Walker's 700 "Old Division," as above 1,600 Jackson's corps 4,000 This was the entire force carried by General Jackson into the fight, and these four thousand men, as the reader will perceive, bore the brunt of the first great assault of General McClellan.
Across the dry ploughed land in Lawton's front the fight grew hot, and on the far side of the turnpike the meadows round the Nicodemus Farm became the scene of a desperate struggle. Meade's Pennsylvanians, together with the Indiana and Wisconsin regiments, which had wrought such havoc in Jackson's ranks at Grovetown, were once more bearing down upon his line.
Soon after daylight on July 2d the enemy opened battle, but because of the intrenchments made during the night, the approach of Lawton's Division, and the presence of Bates' Brigade, which had taken position during the night on Kent's left, little apprehension was felt as to our ability to repel the Spaniards. It is proper here to state that Gen.
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