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Sweeping over a small force with two guns, they reached our main line, broke through it, and got possession of De Gress's battery of four twenty-pound Parrotts, killing every horse, and turning the guns against us.
"Do you know that so far as can be ascertained no human being was in the office alone with the letter, except you and I. Were we to shun inquiry, suspicion might fall upon us." Hamish drew himself up haughtily, somewhat after the fashion of Roland Yorke. "What absurdity, Arthur! steal a twenty-pound note!"
A twenty-pound note came to him in a letter by this afternoon's post. The letter states that Arthur, and all others who may have been accused, are innocent." "Oh, indeed!" cried Mr. Huntley, with cutting sarcasm, as the conviction flashed over him that Hamish, and no other, had been the sender. "The thief has come to his senses at last, has he? So far as to render lame justice to Arthur."
On reaching the rice-mill at Cheevea's, I found a guard and a couple of twenty-pound Parrott gone, of De Gres's battery, which fired an occasional shot toward Fort McAllister, plainly seen over the salt-marsh, about three miles distant.
He found in one side box some bottles of medicine, the simple remedies of the border, which he packed very carefully, and in another he discovered half a sack of flour fifty pounds, perhaps. A third rewarded him with a canister of tea and a twenty-pound bag of ground coffee. He clutched these treasures eagerly. They would be invaluable to Albert.
I had a battery of four twenty-pound Parrott guns, commanded by Captain Silversparre.
I am not to be roused. The devil in me is chained by the waist, and a twenty-pound weight on his tongue. With your assistance I'll do the same for the devil in you. Since you've had plenty of sleep, I 'll trouble you to commit to memory the whole story of the Prodigal Son 'twixt now and morrow's sunrise. We 'll have our commentary on it after labour done.
It is given for catching a tuna weighing over one hundred pounds, on a light rod." "That must be fearfully hard to do," the boy said; "even a twenty-pound fish is a strain to a light rod."
"I wish you would tell me where that is," said Hatton, eagerly. "Why, he writes to you?" "Blank letters; never had a line except once, and that is more than twelve year ago. He sends me a twenty-pound note every Christmas; and that is all I know about him." "Then he is rich, and well to do in the world? said Morley." "Why, don't you know?" said Hatton; "I thought you came from him!"
He had forwarded a second twenty-pound note, upon receiving information of the loss of the first. What he most disliked, looking at it from this point of view, was, not the feeling that he had been cleverly deceived and laughed at, but that Arthur Channing should have suffered unjustly. If the lad was innocent, why, how cruel had been his own conduct towards him!
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