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This was exciting news, and Sam Rodman walked rapidly to the companion-way of the Penobscot. "Yachts in sight!" shouted he to the people below. "Which is ahead?" asked Mr. Montague. "The Sea Foam," replied Rodman. "I'm so glad!" exclaimed Miss Nellie Patterdale. Mr.
By ten o'clock at night she was dressed for going out, and when she heard her husband's latch-key at the front door she slipped out at the back. It was her plan to walk about the roads for half an hour, then to enter and make the best of the situation. Rodman, unable to find his wife, summoned the servant. 'Where is your mistress? 'Out, sir.
Hubert assented by gesture. He had come prepared for disagreeable things in this his first meeting with Mutimer, but the honour of an introduction to the latter's friends had not been included in his anticipations. Mr. Rodman had risen and bowed slightly. His smile carried a disagreeable suggestion from which Mutimer's behaviour was altogether free; he rather seemed to enjoy the situation.
Adela finished breakfast in time to wander a little about the garden before it was the hour for church; her husband and Rodman breakfasted with her, and went to smoke in the library. Alice and 'Arry did not present themselves till the church bells had ceased. Adela was glad to be alone in the dusky pew.
Rodman sat near Alice, or rather he knelt upon a chair, so that at any moment he could assume a standing attitude before her. He talked in a low voice. 'You'll come out to-night? 'No, not to-night. You must speak to him to-night. Rodman mused. 'Why shouldn't you? resumed the girl eagerly, in a tone as unlike that she used to Mr. Keene as well could be.
They showed by the casing of rust on the bolts that the shutters had not been moved; the walls, ceiling and floor were undisturbed; the throat of the chimney was coated evenly with old soot. Only the door was possible as an entry, and this was always locked except when Rodman was himself in the room. And at such times the big Oriental never left his post in the hall before it.
Rodman laughed as heartily as if there had been nothing disagreeable in the situation. 'I have the honour to be your father, sir, he replied. 'You're a fine boy, Jack a deuced fine boy. The child was speechless. Rodman turned to the mother. Her hands held the rail at the foot of the bed, and as the boy looked up at her for explanation she let her face fall upon them and sobbed.
To-day Kingfisher and the Colonel take the Upper Indian-house Pool, and Rodman and I go to the Patapedia. We start at 4 A. M., so as to get the early fishing, always the best. It takes an hour to pole up the three miles, the current being very strong, and when we arrive the pool is yet white with the morning mist.
Lieutenant W. A. Kirk, U.S.N., who witnessed the surrender from a point of vantage on the bridge of the battleship New York, standing just behind Admiral Rodman and Admiral Sims, said that it was exceedingly difficult at the time to grasp the significance of their surrender and feel duly impressed, as there was a lack of show or emotion of any kind.
Whatever had to be considered shifty he excused to himself on the ground of its being temporary; while it was clearly, in his opinion, to the ultimate advantage of the Clay heirs and the Rodman heirs and the Compton heirs and all the other heirs for whom Guion, Maxwell & Guion were in loco parentis, that he should have a free hand. The sequel astonished rather than disillusioned him.
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