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Birch, "and your uncle seems to consider himself a person of authority." "I want," declared Captain Rayburn, his bright eyes studying each niece's winsome young face in turn, "in the interest of the family orchestra, to tune the violins."
"Very well," said Master Rayburn quietly. "And now, sir, leave my place at once." "Oh no!" said the old man quietly, as Mark looked on, scarlet with annoyance, but feeling that he must suffer for what had happened. "Oh no!" cried Sir Edward, aghast. "Have the goodness to explain what you mean." "Certainly," replied the old man.
Little by little, her eyes recovered their natural living expression then slowly closed. She tottered backward from the table, and lifted her hands wildly, as if to grasp at something which might support her. Mr. Rayburn hurried to her before she fell lifted her in his arms and carried her out of the room. One of the servants met them in the hall. He sent her for a carriage.
But let that be as it may, Master Rayburn mended Dummy Rugg when he fell from top to bottom of the steep slope leading down into the lead-mine, getting thereby very much broken, the worst injury being a crack in his skull.
"When you called at our house," she began, "did you notice the doors in the passage, on the first floor? Very well. One of them is the door of the drawing-room, and the other is the door of the library. Do you remember the drawing-room, sir?" "I thought it a large well-lighted room," Mr. Rayburn answered. "And I noticed a doorway in the wall, with a handsome curtain hanging over it."
For a while we stood in melancholy silence about the stretcher on which poor Rayburn lay; and very pale and worn he looked after his great loss of blood and heavy fatigue and the pain and excitement of the last few hours.
He had been working on the idea all the morning and was anxious for a test. The Wondership was, therefore, wheeled out, and before long the boys were in the air once more. As before, they sailed in the direction of Rayburn. As they passed above the farm where they had met with their adventure the day before, they turned to each other with a laugh.
Now for 5 most demanding years in the White House, I have been strengthened by the counsel and the cooperation of two great former Presidents, Harry S. Truman and Dwight David Eisenhower. I have been guided by the memory of my pleasant and close association with the beloved John F. Kennedy, and with our greatest modern legislator, Speaker Sam Rayburn.
"We must put an end to such alarms as this, Master Rayburn," said Sir Morton angrily. "Ay; and the sooner the better," cried that gentleman, as he carefully re-bandaged the lad's hurt. "I wonder," he said to himself, "whether Ralph has told him how he obtained his wound? Is this the beginning of the end?"
He sprang up, feeling ashamed of what he had said, and afraid of being seen by his people, for he heard steps coming; and directly after, Dummy came running down, followed by a couple of stout miners, each fully armed. "Here, Dummy," cried Mark, "run all the way to Master Rayburn, and tell him to come here directly." "Go to fetch Master Rayburn for him?" said the boy, staring.
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