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Catharine Point was passed and left behind, and the two steamers crossed Lomas Bay into the "First Narrows," where Jim thought it possible that the Union might be waiting; but she was not there. They were steaming slowly across Elizabeth Bay, and Douglas was beginning to fear that the corvette had eluded him, after all, when a voice, hoarse with excitement, hailed from aloft: "On deck there!
Then, turning out of the trail and reining his horse into the utter blackness offered by the narrow mouth or an arroyo, he sat still for a long time, listening, staring back through the night toward Tecolote. At last, confident that he had not been followed, he cut across the low-lying lomas marking the western horizon and in a swinging gallop rode straight toward San Juan.
I had not been back twenty-four hours in Montevideo before a letter from the Lomas de Rocha storekeeper came to justify my caution in having left Demetria at some distance from the town.
He looked after him with a woman's carefulness, was over-anxious about his health, and treated him as though he were much younger than his actual age. Peter greeted Mr. Purvis's visits to Las Lomas with cordiality, induced by the feeling that even a chance word dropped by a man who knew the country and its people as intimately as Purvis did might throw some light on his quest.
Dick thought that the little drawing-room was very comfortable, and when Mrs. Crowley returned, after an unconscionable time at the toilet-table, he was in the happiest mood. She gave a rapid glance at the glasses. 'You're a perfect hero, she said. 'You've waited till I came down to have your cocktail. 'Richard Lomas, madam, is the soul of courtesy, he replied, with a flourish.
Knowing that Lomas, and Renfrew would spread the announcement South, they were permitted to see several red foxes that had been secured, as well as a large pack of hounds which Colonel Young had collected for the sport, and were then started on a second expedition to burn the bridges.
I shall give up my chambers in Lincoln's Inn, put up the shutters, so to speak, and Mr. Richard Lomas will retire from active life. 'You wouldn't really do that? cried Mrs. Crowley. 'Why not? 'In a month complete idleness will simply bore you to death. 'I doubt it. Do you know, it seems to me that a great deal of nonsense is talked about the dignity of work.
After passing Lomas Bay, leaving Mount Gregory to the north and the Brecknocks to the west, they sighted Puerto Arena, a small Chilean village, at the moment the churchbells were in full swing; and a few hours later they were over the old settlement at Port Famine.
"Early in February Lomas was very solicitous for me to employ a man, who, he said, had been with Mosby, but on account of some quarrel had abandoned that leader.
I should have thought that would have satisfied him, without getting locked up for being connected in a beastly bucketshop swindle. 'George, how can you talk of your father like that! He gave a sort of sob and looked at her with wild eyes. But at that moment a cab drove up, and, he sprang on to the balcony. 'It's Dick Lomas and Bobbie. They've come to tell us. He ran to the door and opened it.
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