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Updated: June 2, 2025
He counted on throwing the whole thing up against Hunnicott, knowing perfectly well that a little local attorney at a way-station couldn't begin to secure the necessary affidavits." Loring paused with one end of his collar flying loose. "Let me understand," he said. "Do we have to disprove these charges by affidavits?"
"Oh, this is a way-station. We'll be in Syracuse in about half an hour. We've got to change cars there." "We don't if we're going to Buffalo," answered Tode, in a business-like tone. He knew nothing whatever about the matter. "Yes we do, too. Got to wait an hour. I just asked the conductor." Tode walked in and took his seat; he saw his way clear.
There was a strange, sorrowful pleading in the one expressive side of the man's countenance, and a singularly untoward incident presently called it forth, and made it almost ludicrously pitiful. A bustling fellow entered at a way-station, his arms full of a great frame that he carried.
Nearing the way-station, a girl in advance came upon the first negro she ever saw in her life, and ran screaming back: "My goddamighty, Mam, thar's the boogerman I done seed him!" But before discussing the mountain people and their problems, let us take an imaginary balloon voyage over their vast domain.
It was a hopeless task to disclose her, so I waited patiently to observe the spot from which she would emerge, assuming that this, like the window-sill and my easel, was a mere way-station on her homeward travels. But she failed to appear, while I busied my wits in trying to recall which particular item in the collection had a hole in it.
I am speaking, understand, on a twelve hours' acquaintance mainly with that large section of Capetown's inhabitants that handled my baggage between dock and rail way-station. The niggers are very good-humoured, like the darkies of America. The Dutch tongue sounds like German spoken by people who will not take the trouble to finish pronouncing it.
Need attentionly young wife." Only once did O'Kami San glance at the two handsome young men who belonged to the Campbell party. But Nicholas, always gallant and thoughtful, helped Mme. Ito and her daughter to alight at the way-station where they were to change cars, while Reggie carried their small belongings and placed them on the platform.
As, however, the car was full, he stood up in the rear of the coach, waiting until some passengers might alight at a way-station. The first seat that became vacant was one immediately behind the old lady, who had now fallen into a cheerful conversation with the young woman beside her. "What do you do when strangers offer to take your bags?" Keith heard her asking as he seated himself.
"You need not disturb yourself," said Mark, "we are only making this a way-station, en route for the studio. Can you tell me where my knapsack is to be found? after one of Prue's stowages, nothing short of a divining-rod will discover it, I'm afraid." "I know where it is. Are you going away again so soon, Mark?" "Only a two days' trip up the river with these mates of mine.
And because it was heard that Taico intended to take possession of the island of Hermosa, a well-provisioned island off the Chinese coast, very near Luzon, and on the way to Xapon, in order to make it serve as a way-station for his fleet, and thus carry on more easily the war with Manila, the governor sent two ships of the fleet under command of Don Juan de Camuzio, to reconnoiter that island and all its ports, and the nature of the place, in order to be the first to take possession of it.
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