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Simson gave it up and departed. "Felgate seems to be bowling wide just now," observed Dig. "I shouldn't have fancied he'd have gone in for this sort of thing." "Why shouldn't he, just as much as you?" growled Arthur. "I? I haven't gone in for it yet." "Oh yes, you have; your name's down." "Only as last man in, though, in case he should get filled up."
Plainly Bain was holding one end of this, and some one in the trenches Captain Wagstaffe himself, as like as not was holding the other. If an enemy stumbled over the trip-cord, Bain would warn the defence by twitching the alarm-cord. Five minutes later M'Snape was back at the rendezvous, describing to Simson what he had seen.
Neil went to his place, Simson retreated, suspicion written all over his face, and the whistle sounded. Neil met the next attack with his left shoulder fore-most. And it was Erskine's ball on Robinson's fifty-yards. On the first try around the Brown's left end Smith took the leather twenty yards, catching Bloch napping. The north stand was on its feet in an instant.
Simson, who had interest with the cook, believed he could get an exeat through the kitchen window; meanwhile he must get his boots. He armed himself with a match the last one in the box and quietly felt his way along the corridor and down the stairs. There was a glimmer of light from under the maids' door as he passed, which told him they were up and that he would not have long to wait downstairs.
He retained, however, his presence of mind sufficiently to kick Uncle Billy, who was about to say something, and Uncle Billy was sober enough to recognize in Mr. Oakhurst's kick a superior power that would not bear trifling. He then endeavored to dissuade Tom Simson from delaying further, but in vain. He even pointed out the fact that there was no provision, nor means of making a camp.
Simson gave me another terrible shock, stealing into the open door-way with his light, as much awe-stricken, as wildly curious, as I. But the minister resumed, without seeing Simson, speaking to some one else. His voice took a tone of expostulation: "Is this right to come here? Your mother's gone with your name on her lips. Do you think she would ever close her door on her own lad?
"I wonder to hear the Doctor!" said the younger nurse; "there's no a wife in the town would believe it o' him." "I aye thought the Doctor was a man till this moment," said Luckie Simson; "but I believe him now to be an auld wife, little baulder than mysell; and I dinna wonder that poor Mrs. Gray" "Hold your peace, you foolish woman," said the Doctor.
I heard old Mr Patrick Simson say, that he heard his cousin, Mr George Gillespie say, ‘Let no man who is called of God to any work, be it never so great and difficult, distrust God for assistance, as I clearly found at that great Assembly at Westminster.
"Don't know," said Dig evasively; "better not stick it down, that is, not unless the list gets full up, you know." Simson treated this evasive reply as a consent, and wrote Digs name down, there and then, in his presence. "Come on, Herapath," said he, making a last appeal. "Don't desert your old friends." "I tell you I can't say anything till to-morrow," said Arthur, a little crusty.
It fell strangely upon me with a sense of repetition. Every cry, every sob seemed the same as before. I listened almost without any emotion at all in my own person, thinking of its effect upon Simson. He maintained a very bold front, on the whole.
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