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The fifth one got away, but I roped the wounded fellow, and was a-sittin' on him when the rest of the party got back to camp. Jim Healy was along, and he'll tell you the same story." There was a breathless silence, during which McNeil spat meditatively out of the window. "Save any eh locks of their hair?" he questioned, anxiously.
He and Allan went out together. Tullius restored the coffee berries to the tin box, and the box to the cupboard, sat down by the fire, and fell again into a nodding dream of Three Oaks, of the garden, and of his grandchildren in the quarter. LIEUTENANT McNEIL The Williamsport ferry-boat came slowly across the Potomac, from the Maryland to the Virginia side.
"Can't expect feet to walk on Christmas eve. I've got to tell him something, Mother McNeil. Will you excuse me, please, if I tell him by himself?" Coming inside the room, Carmencita pulled Van Landing close to her and closed the door, and for half a minute paused for breath. "It was Her.
The raft must have broken up, and neither Ashe nor McNeil could have survived the ultimate disaster. Ross Murdock was alone, marooned in a time which was not his own, with little promise of escape. That one thought blanked out his mind with its own darkness. What was the use of getting up again, of trying to find food for his empty stomach, or warmth and shelter?
Moffat stirred uneasily, his hand flung behind him, but McNeil was gazing into the lady's fair face, apparently unconscious of any other presence. "But all this time you have not favored me with any of your own adventures, Mr. McNeil. I am very sure you must have had hundreds out on these wide plains." The somewhat embarrassed foreman shook his head discouragingly.
It is hard to give you up, my darling!" and he held her hand as if he would never let it go. "I wonder if I shall ever see you again!" "Mr. McNeil, I have not troubled you with many favors, so I think you might grant me one. Please do not leave the Gurneys just now; on my account, I mean.
True, he had never heard of Mother McNeil and her home until two nights before, never had dressed a Christmas tree before, or before gone where he was not asked, but things of that sort no longer mattered. What mattered was that he had found Frances, that it was the Christmas season, and he was at last learning the secret of its hold on human hearts and sympathies.
Didn't Gussie tell you that he announced his approaching marriage before the whole family?" "Well, Dexie Sherwood, you can smile and smile and be the young lady yourself, after all," said Louie, not yet convinced, "and that ring looks new, and I see no photograph of Hugh McNeil lying inside your favorite book, so there!"
This witness was subjected to a very severe cross-examination, which rather developed and strengthened his testimony than otherwise. McNeil, the ticket agent of the railway station at Lone, was next called, sworn, and examined.
Moffat to a man, while those claiming headquarters at the Occidental were equally ardent in their support of the prospects of Mr. McNeil. It must be confessed that Miss Spencer flirted outrageously, and enjoyed life as she never had done in the effete East.
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