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He's a great dog, all right, and Jack's fond of him." "I suppose money couldn't buy him, then?" suggested Mr. Pender. "It would be useless to try it, sir, I think. Will you stay long with Mr. Stormways?" "That I cannot say. My business may be completed in a day, and it may keep me in this vicinity for a week. That depends on circumstances.
"Guess I'm on a toboggan slide, ain't I?" and he acted as if he could no longer stand up-right. "Cut him loose, fellows!" cried Flapp, and this was done, and Dick staggered to the table, clutched it, slid to the floor and acted as if he had fallen into a deep sleep. "Say, that was dead easy!" cried Pender gleefully. "Took the stuff like a lamb." "What's to do next, Flapp?" asked Jackson.
There's going to be a rush, and you'd better get ready for it. Also you'd better run up some kind of an hotel at Mile 61, it's the jumping off place. That's all please send Pender here." A moment later he turned to his secretary. "Fisette is waiting outside. Talk to him, he's found gold. Get the story and give it to the local paper.
Miss Pender had great skill and experience in the shipping of girls from the school to destinations in all parts of the country. Despatched by Miss Pender, the wildest or the vaguest school-girl would go safely to her home, or to whatever spot she might be sent.
"But now, tell me," he added, after a pause, handing to the perplexed author a pencil drawing he had made of the dark countenance that had appeared to him during the night on Putney Hill "tell me if you recognise this face?" Pender looked at the drawing closely, greatly astonished. He shuddered a little as he looked.
Pender heaved a deep sigh and tried to return the smile. " and this is simply a case, so far as I can judge at present, of a very singular psychical invasion, and a very sinister one, too, if you perhaps understand what I mean "
"Of the simplest character, my dear Mr. Pender. Although I am myself an artificially trained psychic, and consequently aware of the presence of discarnate entities as a rule, I have so far felt nothing here at all. This makes me sure that the forces acting here are of an unusual description.
Pender well I knew her before she married him " "And is she a cause, perhaps?" "Not in the least. She is devoted; a woman very well educated, though without being really intelligent, and with so little sense of humour herself that she always laughs at the wrong places.
To the right rear, opposite Pender, Gibbon's division had been checked by the fire of the great battery near Bernard's Cabin; two of his brigades had been driven back, and the third had with difficulty gained the shelter of the embankment. So from neither left nor right was immediate support to be expected by Meade's victorious regiments.
The stopping of the runaway horse, and the saving of the baby at the fire would bring them many points. Then there was the wonderful letter from Washington, on official paper too, in which Mr. Jared Pender told the story of how much he had been helped by the Red Fox patrol in his task of capturing those desperate rascals who were flooding the whole country with their bogus money.
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