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He asks about Sir Peter Lumsden and Colonel Sir West Ridgeway; and speaks of the Governor-General of India. By way of testing the extent of his knowledge, I refer to Lord Ripon as the present Governor-General of India, when he at once corrects me with, "No; Lord Dufferin Sahib." He speaks of London, and wants to know about Mr. Gladstone and Lord Salisbury which is now Prime Minister?
"Sure, or I shouldn't have been able to fetch those lads back with me to take over the sloop and contraband cargo," the other told him. "But I was in a tail spin at first when I learned that Mr. Ridgeway had gone down to St. Pete to interview some people who had reasons for not wanting to be seen going into his Government offices in Tampa.
Later on, in Ridgeway's room, Wilbur told his story again more in detail to Ridgeway and Jerry. All but one portion of it. He could not make up his mind to speak to them these society fellows, clubmen and city bred of Moran. How he was going to order his life henceforward his life, that he felt to be void of interest without her he did not know. That was a question for later consideration.
A man appeared in the doorway so suddenly that he caught his breath and put out his hand to steady himself. The screen flew open and Henry Veath grasped him by the arms, fairly dragging him into the hallway. "Hugh! Hugh! Is it really you?" For a moment he stood like one suddenly gone mad. "Henry, I can't believe it!" gasped Ridgeway.
Its labours commenced in the autumn of 1885, and the report of Sir West Ridgeway, the British Commissioner, is full of interest and encouragement. In an article in the 'Nineteenth Century' of October, 1887, on the completion of his work, he gives some details of the country, and also of the position of Russia in Central Asia, which are worth quoting.
Yet 'tis as fair a Jamaica as ever Griggs put ashore i' the dark." "Griggs!" I cried, the whole affair coming to me: Griggs, Upper Marlboro', South River, Grafton and the rector plotting in the stalls, and Mr. Silas Ridgeway the accomplice. "Ay, Griggs," replied he; "ye may well repeat it, the , I'll lay a puncheon he'll be hailing you shortly.
He thus managed to get in a day after the fair on every occasion, being too late for the fight at Ridgeway, and too late to capture any considerable number of the flying Fenians at Fort Erie. The campaign, on the Canadian side, was magnificently planned and wretchedly carried out.
He slowly, determinedly, dejectedly re-entered the carriage and started toward the end. Ridgeway had been directed to the home of Mr. Henry Coleman. He was never able to describe his emotions as he drove through the streets toward that most important place in all the world at that hour.
"I find it difficult to believe," she observed, "that a boy whom I particularly detested, one of the most awkward, solemn-faced, uninteresting boys I ever saw in my life, can have blossomed into such a wonder. As for Ridgeway Jordan, I like him very much. He may be a society man which is no crime, I believe but he is also making quite as good, in his way, as your friend, Mr. Waldron.
Oh, McCord!" The spark came swimming across the deck. "Hello! Hello there ah " There was a note of querulous uneasiness there that somehow jarred with my remembrance of this man. "Ridgeway," I explained. He echoed the name uncertainly, still with that suggestion of peevishness, hanging over the rail and peering down at us. "Oh! By gracious!" he exclaimed, abruptly. "I'm glad to see you, Ridgeway.
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