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Only a few of the clerks had assembled as yet at the great store. It was still early morning, and the business of the day had not commenced when young McPherson rushed in, breathless, and in his haste nearly overturned a clerk near the door; then he stopped, panting as he questioned: "Is Mr. Mallery in?" "Yes, sir; he's always in.
All day Tom stood at the hatchway of the Black Eagle, checking the cargo as it was hoisted out of her, while McPherson and his motley assistants, dock labourers, seamen, and black Kroomen from the coast, worked and toiled in the depths below. The engine rattled and snorted, and the great chain clanked as it was lowered into the hold. "Make fast there!" cries the mate. "Aye, aye, sir!"
To get through it, even with vessels of the lightest draft, it was necessary to clear off a belt of heavy timber wide enough to make a passage way. As the trees would have to be cut close to the bottom under water it was an undertaking of great magnitude. On the 4th of February I visited General McPherson, and remained with him several days.
Miss McPherson said, turning to Grey, who replied: "Yes; and I must say that he received my rather bungling apology better than I supposed he would. "'All right, he said, offering me his hand; 'I dare say I was a cad to say what I did of your flag, but you needn't have hit me quite so hard. Where did you learn boxing? "'I never learned it, I told him.
Murray, made his way to the pulpit, where he held an earnest conversation with the minister. Instead of pronouncing the benediction and dismissing the congregation when the final "Amen" had been sung, the minister invited the people to resume their seats, when Mr. McPherson rose and said, "Friends, we have just learned that a great and terrible evil has fallen upon the world.
Two days later, I had a false telegram sent to our place, summoning McPherson to his home in Scotland. He left at once, before my father's burial, and his death, which occurred a few weeks later, removed the last obstacle in the way of carrying my plans into execution. My brother at that time was in Australia, but in what part of the country I did not know, nor did I try to ascertain.
"No," Corliss replied, as he dealt the hands; "just below where the Stuart taps the Yukon. And then back to Dawson before the ice breaks." The pocket-miner's eyes sparkled. "Keep us hustlin'; but, say, it's a trip, isn't it! Hunch?" "I've received word from the Parker outfit on the Mayo, and McPherson isn't asleep on Henderson you don't know him.
"Y-yes," she answered half doubtfully, looking at her father. "I'd like to go, but I can't leave him here alone." "I'll see to yer father, miss," replied Alec, "sae ye gang along." "Oh, thank you, Mr. McPherson, but I'm half afraid to go, as I will be the only woman there." "The greater reason fer ye to come, lassie," broke in Pete.
He was now on the south and south-west of Jackson confronting the Confederates behind their breastworks, while McPherson's right was nearly two miles north, occupying a line running north and south across the Vicksburg railroad. Artillery was brought up and reconnoissances made preparatory to an assault. McPherson brought up Logan's division while he deployed Crocker's for the assault.
How vividly it all came back to him the day when he first saw Archibald McPherson, the fair English boy, for he was scarcely more than that, with his young girl-wife, so innocent and lovely then.
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