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Updated: May 28, 2025
The drill sergeant rapped out a jarringly emphatic accent against a tree with her staff. She was a college gymnasium teacher home on her summer vacation; her name was Miss Raper. She had a tremendous reputation for rigid discipline in her classes.
Proper precautions have been taken both at home and abroad." "Is there any clew yet?" Mr. Lamb shook his head sadly. "Not a ray of light has been thrown on the mystery," he replied, "though the best Scotland Yard men are at work. You may depend upon it that the insurance people, who stand to lose ten thousand pounds, will leave no stone unturned. As for Raper, our watchman, he has been discharged.
One of the Hillsdale boys, a youth of eighteen, who considered himself superlatively funny, called out, "Oakwood Squad, Awkw'd Squad!" Agony scrambled to her feet, white with anger, and Oh-Pshaw stood still where the collision had occurred, too horrorstruck to move. A low command from Miss Raper and the squads righted themselves into line and proceeded with the maneuver.
On March 21, at Portsmouth, two other English mariners made affidavit that they had been of the crew of the 'Speedy Return; that she was captured by pirates, while Captain Drummond and Surgeon Wilkie were on shore, at Maritan in Madagascar; and that these two witnesses 'went on board a Moca ship called the "Defiance," escaped from her at the Mauritius, and returned to England in the 'Raper' galley.
They drilled for an hour every morning with Miss Raper in the wide dirt road that ran along the foot of the hill behind Carver House. The hour drew to a close with a final strenuous series of left and right wheels and the Winnebagos sought the shade of the trees along the roadside and fanned themselves with leaves.
We are confident that the readers of our Raper will appreciate the letter in another column signed 'W. W." And from that day William was accorded much of the deference due to a litterateur which the fates had hitherto denied him.
We are confident that the readers of our Raper will appreciate the letter in another column signed 'W. W." And from that day William was accorded much of the deference due to a litterateur which the fates had hitherto denied him.
J.H. Raper, of Manchester, England, characterized it as the grandest meeting of the day, and said the patriot of a hundred years hence would seek for every incident connected with it, and the next Centennial would be adorned by the portraits of the women who sat upon that platform. The Hutchinsons were present and in their best vein interspersed the speeches with appropriate and felicitous songs.
Lamb, it appeared, had been detained at his place of business until long after the closing hour, writing important letters. He left at nine o'clock, and Raper, the night watchman, fastened the street door behind him. During the night the policeman on duty in Pall Mall saw or heard nothing suspicious about the premises.
The Winnebagos simply told Miss Raper that she had been called out of town and would not be in the contest, and Miss Raper chose another girl to put in her place.
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