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Throughout his life the conscript has lived in a stream of sensations, the printed pages of the geography book, the sight of streets and fields and faces, the sound of voices or of birds or rivers, all of which go to make up the infinity of facts from which he might abstract an idea of his country. What comes to him in the final charge? Perhaps the row of pollard elms behind his birth-place.
The cold, quiet passion of the gambler grew in him. He was losing steadily. Out of his wallet came in a steady stream the last of his winnings at Pedro's. And still he played. Suddenly the wallet squeezed flat between his fingers. "Pollard," he said regretfully, "I'm broke." The other waved away the idea. "Break up a fine game like this because you're broke?"
Pollard continued the preparation of his class-work for a full hour, and only when the dusk was falling, and it was becoming difficult for him to see what he was writing, did he lean back in his chair and stretch his arms above his head with a sigh of relief. Then once more he became aware of the footsteps overhead. He rose and rang the bell.
His voice was steady and deep and mellow, and one felt that it might be expanded to an enormous volume. Such a man would not fly off into snap judgments and become alarmed because an employee had a past or a strange name. They paid a short visit to the gambling hall after dinner, and then got their horses. Pollard was struck dumb with admiration at the sight of the blood-bay.
At this moment, out in the little harbor that was a part of the shipyard, the "Pollard" rode gently at anchor. She was the first submarine torpedo boat built at this yard, after the designs of David Pollard, the inventor, a close personal friend of Jacob Farnum.
Look here, a minute or two can make no difference, for if you are poisoned, you are poisoned. Where can we put this brute? I wouldn't have it seen for ten pounds." "There's an old pollard, Squire, about five yards away down near the fence, which is hollow and handy," said Giles. "Quite so," he answered, "I know it well. Do you bring the dog, Giles. Remember, it was a dog, not a fox."
“Now, that I’ve had the good luck to sell the ’Pollard’ to the Navy,” responded Jacob Farnum, principal owner of the shipbuilding yard, “I’m not disposed to grumble if the Government prefers to store its property here for a while.”
It's Black Jack himself come back to us!" Joe Pollard had let his hand fall away from his gun. He gaped at Terry as though he were seeing a ghost. He came a long pace nearer and let his arms fall on the table, where they supported his weight. "Black Jack," he kept whispering. "Black Jack! God above, are you Black Jack's son?" And the bewildered Terry answered: "I'm his son.
I was willing enough to answer, so I returned: "I am Constance Sterling"; and almost immediately added: "And who are you?" "I am the cat that mews in the well." Then suddenly, "Do you live here?" "No," I replied, "I am only staying here. Mrs. Pollard is sick " "Do they like you?" The interruption was quick, like all his speech, and caused me a curious sensation.
Her face was refined, her eyes large and intelligent; and her neat, well-fitting clothes did not suggest the flamboyancy of Polly Powell's adornments. "There's Tom Pollard waiting for you, Alice," said one of the girls. Alice Lister flushed as the girl spoke, and the colour which rose to her cheeks told its own tale. "If I were you, Alice," said another, "I should keep my eye on him.
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