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"What do you want, yourself?" came Governor Semple's reply with some heat and not a little insolence. "We want our fort," demanded Boucher, slightly taken aback, but thoroughly angered. His horse was prancing restively within pistol range of the governor. "Go to your fort, then! Go to your fort!" returned Semple with stinging contempt in manner and voice.
Their boxes and packages were opened, including the late Governor Semple's trunks, and examined for papers or letters which might give important information to the captors. The Western levy now joined them, and gave them full news of what had happened.
I'd go with you but I must not leave St. Marys just now. Wire me as soon as possible you've just time to catch your train." The color climbed into Semple's cheeks, and he went quickly out with his head up. Clark glanced after him and his lips twisted into a smile. "I give him forty-eight hours. If it doesn't come by that we'll ring down the curtain," he said to himself thoughtfully.
Scott," he said; "the bargain is fair enough for you." "I ken Donald Nevin; he's a Campletown man, and I ken you wouldna hae keepit his books if you hadna had your business at your finger-ends." The next day David went to Glasgow, and saw Mr. Semple's master. The £9 odd was lost money found, and predisposed him to the arrangement proposed. David got little encouragement from Mr.
In the spring Lord Selkirk started westward to see the vast estate which he possessed, but alas! only to see it in the throes of division, of excited passion and of bloody conflict, and to face one of the greatest catastrophes of new world Colonization. Semple's course is on trial. Self-assertion and dictation bring their own penalty with them.
A.N. McLeod now became the superior officer in the Fort and made preparation for defending it. He himself occupied the late Governor Semple's quarters and passed out compliments to white and native alike, praising them for their daring, their adroitness and their success.
The vanquished then passed quickly to the barges at the river. Each of the six drunken fellows, whom I had last seen in the late Governor Semple's office, the Highlanders who had spied upon me when I visited Fort Douglas but a year before, the clerks whom I had heard talking that night in the great hall, and many others with whom I had but a chance acquaintance, filed down to the river.
I once heard Lord Exmouth say that France was to England all that Carthage was to Rome the natural outlet for the temper of a people so quarrelsome that they would fight each other if they had not the French to fight." "Listen! That is thy father's gallop. Far off, I know it. So early in the morning, what is he coming for?" "He had an intention to go to Mr. Semple's funeral." "That is good.
He and his companion began to drag the cart down the road. Suddenly they were startled by the sound of the musketry fire in the distance which had struck down Semple's party. Fearing lest they might lose the gun, the pair turned back towards the fort. On their way they were met by ten men from Fort Douglas, hurrying to the scene of the conflict.
It would be wonderfully interesting to get at the inner point of view of New Court. A little later, in Colin Semple's office, he sat down to await the coming of that gentleman. "Then he doesn't get here so early nowadays?" he suggested to the head-clerk who, with instant recognition and exaggerated deference, had ushered him into this furthermost private room.
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