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If you'll let me know what your campaign expenses have been up to date, all of 'em, you understand, to-night too, I'll give you a check for them within the next two weeks." "Who makes this offer?" demanded Mr. Hunt, with more curiosity than alarm; "Mr. Flint?" "No," said Hilary; "Mr. Flint does not use the road's funds for such purposes." "Henderson?"
"You can't run to the gate," he said, rather as if speaking to himself than to her. "Wind's gone already, and it's a hundred yards without cover. To the bank of the road's only about twenty-five. Breathe deep. Is my cap in that pocket still?" Amaryllis found and gave it to him. Dick, unrolling it, rose slowly to his knees, facing the rhododendron bush. "Oh, don't!" exclaimed the girl.
For Holmes was bending a bit low, a hundred yards or so away, and stealing toward the fieldpiece that does duty as reveille gun. "It would be a shame to bet on what Greg's up to -it would be too easy!" muttered Prescott, standing behind a flowering bush at the road's edge.
Yet, even with these advantages, the road was so broken, and they were so often thrown out of the direct course by various impediments, that they did not gain much on their pursuers. 'Never mind, said the undaunted Scotchman to his companion, 'if we were ance by Withershins' Latch, the road's no near sae soft, and we'll show them fair play for't.
"The road's so bad and so narrow, it would be rather risky." This was a mild way of putting it; and he was considerate in not mentioning the precipice which fell abruptly down under the uneven shelf he generously called a road. Sir Samuel gave a wary glance down, and said no more.
After touching upon the benefits such a road would confer upon the interests of the Vesuvius, he reached the definite suggestion that a contribution to the road's expenses of, say, fifty thousand pesos would not be more than an equivalent to benefits received. Mr. Franzoni denied that his company would receive any benefits from a contemplated road.
Git up, Nell," and the horse started off in a brisk trot. "Looker here, mister, I ain't got no more resterant then er dog. Ain't your name Silkirk?" "That's may name," returned the passenger in astonishment. "I knowed it," said the driver. "I got on that train ter save yer life ter night. Slower dar, Nell! This road's full er mud holes sence the big rain we had tother day.
I've brought you down here because you have the faculty of making men think they hate you then going out and working their heads off for you, because well, to be frank, you're the biggest, blunderingest, hardest-working blusterer that I ever saw and you're the only man who can pull me through. This road's in rotten shape, especially as concerns the roadbed.
I remember saying to myself what a pair of simpletons you must be if you was thinking of going to Ahalala. 'We do think of going there, said Caldigate. 'The road's open to you. Nobody won't prevent you. You can get beef and mutton there, and damper, and tea no doubt, and what they call brandy, as long as you've got the money to pay for it.
But he persisted, "No, you'll get over this scrap with our friend. By the way, I'll put the deputy onto him, in the next town. He'll never get out of the county. When you forget him Oh no, you can go on fine. You're a good steady driver, and the road's perfectly safe if you give people the once-over before you pick 'em up. Picking up badmen is no more dangerous here than it would be in New York.
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