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He leaned over and pressed the hand of Fred Whitney, and then, raising his hat with his left hand, extended the right to Jennie. Fred made an excuse to move away a few paces, for he understood the situation. "Good-by," Sterry said in a voice just low enough to reach the dear one, as he pressed the delicate hand which rested so trustingly in his own. "Good-by," she answered.
It was humiliating thus to flee before the very men whom he had set out to arrest, but what veteran has not been obliged to do humiliating things in the course of his career? "This flight can't continue much longer," quietly remarked Monteith Sterry to Hawkridge, at his side. "Why not?" "The men are dissatisfied and are unwilling to keep it up.
"I don't believe they will attempt to fire the house as long as the ladies are with us," he exclaimed; "some one of our party has been cowardly enough to sneak off. As I call your names, answer." He proved the truth of what he said. He had eight companions, not counting Hawkridge and Sterry.
"That is quite different. Let me ask, Duke, whether this treatment is guaranteed to all of our folks?" "I wish I could say it was, Dick, but I can't; Inman makes two exceptions Capt. Asbury and Mont Sterry. That Sterry showed himself so much of a man and was so square toward me when I was caught that I would do anything I could for him.
Greville, on the other hand, had been standing out the custom at Beckenham, one that I personally always find a great disadvantage. I was easily beaten this year at Wimbledon by Mrs. Sterry. Classification for 1901: At Wimbledon, in 1902, I had two very strenuous matches, which improved my game immensely. The first, against Mrs. Durlacher, I just won.
Ashby Sterry, and its location was a fictitious city, i.e. The Market Town. The only case in which Dickens deliberately used the name of one inn for another was that of the "Maypole" and "King's Head" at Chigwell in Barnaby Rudge.
Inasmuch as the matter had been managed with so much care, he deemed it right that no one should see the transfer to his friend. Sterry was surprised and glanced down at the object, but, quick to catch on, closed his palm again and took part in the conversation. It was some minutes before he gained a chance to examine the contents unobserved.
It was useless to resist, and Sterry replied: "You know there are several Smiths in this country, and I ought to have the privilege of wearing the name without objection." "We'll soon see," replied the first captor. Within the next minute Sterry was marched in front of the camp-fire, where the full glare fell upon his countenance.
When do you suppose the fight will open?" "Pretty soon; I s'pose you are as tired of this dallying as the rest of us." "Well, it strikes me as best to wait until sure everything is ready." Sterry was anxious to end this pointless conversation, for the stranger had approached quite near and peered into his face, as though not free from suspicion.
Had he darted over the plain in front of the house, Mont Sterry would have seen the fleeing figure, understood what it meant, and, carrying out his threat, shot down Larch Cadmus. Holly lost no time in dodging behind the structure, moving with the stealth of an Indian in the stillness of the night.
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