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"We should have heard her whistling for Spearman's Ranch five minutes ago, and I wanted to pull you out of Argenta before seven o'clock." "You still think I'm not grimy enough," said Geordie, with a grin. "I can lay on a coat of coal-dust " "'Tisn't that," came the murmured answer, with a shake of the head. "It's the back and shoulders, sir.
They never met, even accidentally, on the night when the Diamond was lost; and no communication of any sort whatever took place between them, from the Thursday morning when the alarm was first raised in the house, to this present Saturday afternoon, when Miss Verinder left us. After telling my daughter suddenly, and in so many words, of Rosanna Spearman's suicide this is what has come of it."
Having reached that inevitable conclusion, I turned to the more interesting object of investigation which was presented to me by Rosanna Spearman's letter. The address was written as follows: "For Franklin Blake, Esq. I broke the seal. The envelope contained a letter: and this, in its turn, contained a slip of paper. I read the letter first:
On Sunday afternoon the Infantry Brigades began to move to their respective positions, and at daylight on the 5th the Cavalry Division broke its camp behind spearman's. At nine minutes past seven he bombardment of the Brakfontein position began, and by half-past seven all the Artillery except the Swartkop guns were firing in a leisurely fashion at the Boer redoubts and entrenchments.
It was the last joined subaltern of Thorneycroft's Mounted Infantry joined in the evening shot at dawn. Poor gallant young Englishman! he had soon 'got his job. The great sacrifice had been required of the Queen's latest recruit. Spearman's Hill: February 4, 1900 The first gleams of daylight crept underneath the waggon, and the sleepers, closely packed for shelter from the rain showers, awoke.
"Young gentlemen, I resume my remarks on the passage of a shot in vacuo, which remarks were interrupted yesterday by general quarters. After quoting that admirable passage in 'Spearman's British Gunner, I then laid it down, you remember, that the path of a shot in vacuo describes a parabolic curve.
The Maritzburg Scouts were delighted at receiving orders on the morning after their arrival at Springfield that they were to move forward at once and encamp close to Spearman's Farm, and to furnish orderlies for carrying messages for the general. They started at once, and after an hour's fast riding arrived at the point assigned to them.
He resumed the perusal of Rosanna Spearman's letter. On my side, I sat at the window, waiting until he had done. Little by little, the impression produced on me by Ezra Jennings it seemed perfectly unaccountable, in such a situation as mine, that any human being should have produced an impression on me at all! faded from my mind. My thoughts flowed back into their former channel.
The feeling, however, was not of long endurance, for two days later, when they had settled down in camp near the Tugela and round Spearman's Farm, the general rode through the lines, congratulating the troops on the valour they had displayed, and promising them that ere long they would be in Ladysmith.
On January 17 he told White that "somehow he thought he was going to be successful this time," and that he hoped to be within touch of Ladysmith in six days. His Head Quarters were at Spearman's Camp, a few miles south of Mount Alice, whence he rode over daily to note and criticize the tactics.
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