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"Well, no," answered Andy, "it seems to come from the pilothouse, and must be Todd Pemberton, himself." "So, it's Todd Pemberton, is it?" remarked Frank, "I think it'll pay us to slow down a little, and look into this white rag-waving business." "Goodness gracious! you can't be thinking that Todd is in touch with the bank robbers, can you, Frank?"
The usual hour of his coming had arrived, and as she heard his step on the gravel walk she hastened out to meet him. He held a letter in his hand. It was directed to Miss Pemberton. She gazed at the handwriting. "Yes, yes it is from him, he is alive," she exclaimed, with an hysterical cry as she sprang up the steps, and flew into the drawing-room.
"Oh there are not two such !" But Pemberton pulled up; he had been on the point of using too invidious a term. Instead of this he said "Two such fatalities." Morgan flushed the tears came to his eyes. "Dites toujours two such rascally crews!" Then in a different tone he added: "Happy opulent youth!" "Not if he's a dismal dunce." "Oh they're happier then.
All that day troops came up and Grant's army, after having gone away from Grand Gulf in darkness, was coming back to it in daylight. "They say that Pemberton at Vicksburg could gather together fifty thousand men and strike us, while we've only twenty thousand here," said Pennington. "But he isn't going to do it," said Warner. "How do I know? No, I'm not a prophet nor the son of a prophet.
"I trust that it will be found that I am right in my opinion of the sweet little girl," said Miss Mary, nodding her head and smiling. "I can always judge best of people by their voices, and I detected in her's that true tone which can only proceed from a true heart." "Well, well, we shall see, and I hope that my opinion will agree with your's, Mary," observed Miss Pemberton.
The last number was issued on the fourth and announced that we had "caught our rabbit." I have no doubt that Pemberton commenced his correspondence on the third with a two-fold purpose: first, to avoid an assault, which he knew would be successful, and second, to prevent the capture taking place on the great national holiday, the anniversary of the Declaration of American Independence.
He could explain it to himself no more than could any one else unless, perhaps, it were Mabel. The others had been as he had been: awed and overcome, yet at the same time kindled in the very depths of their souls. They had come out Snowford, Cartwright, Pemberton, and the rest on to the steps of Paul's House, following that strange figure.
Besides all this there was quite a peace feeling, for the time being, among the citizens of that part of Mississippi, but this feeling soon subsided. It is not probable that Pemberton got off with over 4,000 of his army to the camp where he proposed taking them, and these were in a demoralized condition.
If one could have dived deep below all the Christian graces the charity, the sweetness of disposition, the humility of Father Pemberton, he would have found a small remnant of the "Old Man," as the good clergyman would have called it, which was never in harmony with the Rev. Mr. Stoker. The younger divine felt his importance, and made his venerable colleague feel that he felt it.
The party on horseback led the way, the carriages rattling after them. Major Malcolm, who once having gone a road never forgot it, rode on with Miss Pemberton, Ellen and her cavalier following close behind them. They had just passed the cliff, when, the road being broad and level, Fanny proposed a canter.
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