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"It says: 'Come home at once. I wonder what's wrong?" "I hope nothing serious," said Professor Lenton. "You may both prepare to leave this afternoon. I am sorry. Let me hear from you when you reach Professor Henderson. I trust nothing has happened to him. He is too great a scientist for us to lose." All thoughts of experiments were driven from the minds of Jack and Mark by the telegram.
Of Erneis de Burun, who had lands in York and Lincoln, we hear little more. His son Hugh was lord of Horestan Castle in the latter county, and with his son of the same name, under King Stephen, presented the church of Ossington to the monks of Lenton. Tim latter Hugh joined their order; but the race was continued by his son Sir Roger, who gave lands to the monastery of Swinstead.
I'll not put in so much of the chemical." "I don't believe there had better be a 'next time' right away," declared Mr. Lenton. "The next attempt you make to invent a powerful gas, you had better generate it in something stronger than a glass test tube. Use an iron retort." "Yes, sir," replied Jack. "And now you had better report for your geometry lesson," went on the professor.
The Halls who were the slaves of Thomas Lenton, owner of seventy-five or a hundred slaves, were the parents of twenty-one children. The Halls, who were born before slavery worked on the large plantation of Lenton which was devoted primarily to the growing of cotton and corn and secondarily to the growing of tobacco and pumpkins.
It seemed clear that he could rely still upon a good ninety votes in the House of Commons. Horlock became more cheerful. He met Tallente leaving the House one windy March evening and the two men shared a taxi together, westwards. "Looks to me like another year of office, thanks to you," the Prime Minister observed. "Lenton tells me that we shall have a majority of forty on Thursday week.
The way into it was by a gate cut out of the rock, and with an oblique entrance for more safety. Without is a plain with three niches, which I fancy their place of judicature, or the like. Between this and the castle is a hermitage of like workmanship." These remains pertain to a cell called S. Mary le Rock, a quarter of a mile west of the Castle, and belonged to Lenton priory.
Although freedom came to the slaves in January, Master Lenton kept them until May in order to help him with his crops. When actual freedom was granted to the slaves, only a few of the young ones left the Lenton plantation. In 1882 Bolden Hall came to Live Oak where he has resided ever since. He married but his wife is now dead, and to that union one child was born. Charlotte Martin
Lenton was very good to his slaves and never whipped them unless it was absolutely necessary which was seldom! He provided them with plenty of food and clothing, and always saw to it that their cabins were liveable. He was careful, however, to see that they received no educational training, but did not interfere with their religious quest.
Mark bent over to make a closer examination. There were a few seconds of silence, broken only by the roaring of the burner and the crackling of the black powder. "Yes, there is vapor in the jar," he said. "Good! That's the stuff!" cried Jack. "Now I guess Professor Lenton will admit that I'm right." He turned the Bunsen flame up higher.
"And it did blow up!" cried Mark, still rubbing his head. "The test tube, and the other tube, and the rubber hose, and the bell-jar. I told you it would, Jack." "Then you weren't disappointed," retorted Jack, this time with a broad smile. "I don't like to disappoint people," he added. "What kind of gas was it, Darrow?" asked Professor Lenton.
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