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From her open bureau drawer, with a sudden impish impulse towards worldly wisdom, she extracted first of all the photograph of the young brakeman. "See, Helene! My new beau!" she giggled experimentally. In mild-eyed surprise Helene Churchill glanced up from her work. "Your beau?" she corrected. "Why, that's Zillah's picture." "Well, it's mine now!" snapped Rae Malgregor with unexpected edginess.
'Dave, old man, don't ask me any questions yet as to how it's to be done, but I believe that before this World's Fair closes you and I will have gotten Delbras and Bob out of mischief's way, settled the brunette problem, and thrown light on the diamond robbery. 'And how about that lost young Englishman, Sir Carroll Rae, and missing Gerald Trent? I turned and faced him.
As Ned turned toward the house the little fellow caught him by the sleeve and held him back. "You look out," he said, "there's a snake in there, that black-eyed snake who claimed to be Lieutenant Rae! Do you want him to know that we are wise to his game?"
She took the letter and read, her face reflecting her changing emotions, perplexity, surprise, finally indignation. "'A matter for the police," she quoted, scornfully, handing her father the letter. "'A matter for the police' indeed! My but that Mr. Rae is the clever man! The police! Does he think my brother Allan would cheat? or steal, perhaps!" she panted, in her indignant scorn. "Mr.
Then a good neighbour came and told him that one night, while on his way for the doctor, he had seen this woman take leave of her lover had seen the man, whom he could not recognise, embrace her at parting. He taxed her with this, and she at once confessed, though protesting that she had not sinned, save in spirit. You can imagine his grief, Brother Rae, for he had loved the woman.
MacFarlane's career in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company is typical of the varied life and movements of its old-time adventurous traders. From here he was transferred to Fort Rae, and afterwards to Fort Good Hope, Mackenzie River, where he remained six years.
Sir William Rae died at St. Catherine's on the 19th October 1842. David Boyle of Shewalton, L.J.C. from 1811, and Lord President from 1841 till 1852. He died in 1853. See Autobiography, 1787, in Life, vol. i. pp. 39, 40. Virg. Æn. i. 122. M. Davidoff has, in his mature life, amply justified Sir Walter's prognostications.
Like one fairly cramped with astonishment Rae Malgregor doubled up very suddenly at the waist-line, and thrusting her neck oddly forward after the manner of a startled crane, stood peering sharply round the corner of the rocking-chair at Zillah Forsyth. "Did his mother hate me?" she gasped. "Did his mother hate me? Well, what do you think?
"Oh, certainly," began Martin with ready geniality, "whenever you eh? What did you say, Sir? I didn't quite " But Mr. Rae was already bidding Mrs. Dunn goodnight, with a face of preternatural gravity. "What the deuce!" said Martin, turning to his friend Dunn. "Does the old boy often go off at half-cock that way? He'll hurt himself some time, sure." "Isn't it awful?" said Dunn.
Half perfunctorily, young Windham made his way there, entered and sat down in the big trading room where sailormen were usually assembled to discourse profanely of the perils of the sea. Benito liked to hear them and to listen to the drunken boasts of Factor William Rae, who threatened that his company would drive all Yankee traders out of California.
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