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McKnight Guards, Captain Nathan M. Eisenhower, 95 men, Company I, 11th Regiment; September 15. Liberty Fire Zouaves, Captain William Geiger, 70 men, Company G, 20th Regiment; September 17. M'Lean Guards, Captain Samuel Harner, 45 men, Company H, 20th Regiment; September 17. Halleck Infantry, Captain Frederick S. Boas, 92 men, Company I, 20th Regiment; September 17.
"I suppose she did, if she thought at all." "But listen, man." McKnight was growing excited. "What do you figure out of this? The Conway woman knows you have taken the notes to Pittsburg. The probabilities are that she follows you there, on the chance of an opportunity to get them, either for Bronson or herself.
"Campbell, McKnight, and Irvine," "brither Scots" all, and all of them at home at the time, were of the best company, classic or otherwise, alike to one another and to all visitors. Janet, from the kitchen, too, sent us the best oatcakes and other Scotch fare.
The traders and hunters were all upon their feet congratulating McKnight on the happy discovery; while each of them shook hands with our host and his wife, whom they now remembered having heard of, as well as the story of the massacre.
The boulevard was full of cars flying countryward for the Saturday half-holiday, toward golf and tennis, green fields and babbling girls. I gritted my teeth and thought of McKnight at Richmond, visiting the lady with the geographical name. And then, for the first time, I associated John Gilmore's granddaughter with the "West" that McKnight had irritably flung at me.
McKnight rarely appeared before half after ten, and our modest office force some time after nine. I looked over my previous day's mail and waited, with such patience as I possessed, for McKnight. In the interval I called up Mrs. Klopton and announced that I would dine at home that night. What my household subsists on during my numerous absences I have never discovered. Tea, probably, and crackers.
So with due ceremony he approached the chief and solemnly related his dream; and the old Indian, realizing that in the Anglo-Saxon he had met his match nay, his superior in cunning made over to McKnight the land.
In about half an hour he returned, with Messrs. McKnight and Lyman; and they informed me that the vessel was the United States sloop-of-war 'Wasp, commanded by Capt.
'She's a rich dyke, McKnight was saying, 'an' she'll go plumb down to any depth. We must get the pegs in at once, an' apply fer a lease. She just misses Silver Stream ground, an' the ole Red Hand is forfeit long ago. Boys, it's a fortune fer us. 'Remember Phil Doon's a shareholder, too; his father's got to be in it, said Dick.
'Search all about amongst the scrub and the rocks. Keep my horse ready in case the boy makes a bolt for it. There were three or four men, Peterson and McKnight amongst them. They searched industriously, coming pretty close to Dick's hiding place more than once. 'We should have let the other lad go and have followed him, said the authoritative voice.
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