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Dinks stopped. There were some papers annexed, containing directions for collecting the annuity to be paid to Mrs. Simcoe, and a schedule of the property. The Honorable B. Dinks looked hastily at the schedule. "Miss Wayne's property will be at least a million of dollars," said he, in a formal voice. There were a few moments of utter silence.
Rose-bud wrapped his body in his long arms and his face in its childish smile, lifted his vague hints of eyebrows archly and nodded toward Wayne's room. "Led, him come back," he said with unutterable sweetness. "Him like coffee all same black as hell. Him boss now? Too bad. You damn fine boss, Mis' Garth." And he shuffled back to the stove leaving Garth scowling angrily after him.
Clatter and smash came from the bleachers, long stamping of feet, whistle and bang, for voices had become weak. A hit, an error, a double play, another hit, a steal, and a forced out these told Wayne's dogged, unsuccessful trial for the winning run. But Worry Arthurs had curtly said to his pitcher: "Peg, cut loose!" and man after man for Place failed to do anything with his terrific speed.
She's smiling to herself to think how bad she was to lie in the sand so long, and she's not at all concerned, because she knows her friends will be so happy to see her that they'll forget to scold her for being late. Katie's spoiled," the Major concluded, "but we like her that way." Of Wayne this same friend remarked: "Wayne's a hard nut to crack." Many army people felt that way.
At the battle of Germantown it was Wayne's troops who, falling on with the bayonet, drove the Hessians and the British light infantry, and only retreated under orders when the attack had failed elsewhere. At Monmouth it was Wayne and his Continentals who first checked the British advance by repulsing the bayonet charge of the guards and grenadiers.
It's been a lark from I won't say from start to finish but certainly from the minute let me see just when! certainly from the minute when Miss Strange beckoned to me, over old Wayne's shoulder." An odd look came by degrees into Conquest's face the look of pitying amusement with which one listens to queer things said by some one in delirium.
"I can't take anything of Judge Wayne's " he began to stammer; but she interrupted him. "I understand your feelings about that," she said, simply. "They're not Judge Wayne's; they were my father's. I have plenty more." In his relief at finding she was not Wayne's daughter he spoke awkwardly. "Your father? Is he dead?" "Yes; he's dead. You needn't be afraid to take the things.
At eight o'clock the little army came to a final halt at a farmhouse, thirteen miles from their camp, and a little more than a mile back of Stony Point. Nobody was permitted to speak. The tired men dropped upon the ground, and ate in silence their supper of bread and cold meat. A little later, Wayne's order of battle was read. For the first time the men knew what was before them.
They had even more effective allies in the suspicion with which the backwoodsmen regarded the regular army, and the supine indifference of the people at large, which forced the administration to try every means to obtain peace before adopting the only manly and honorable course, a vigorous war. Wayne's Character and History. Of all men, Wayne was the best fitted for the work.
They knew, though the besieged did not, that, the very evening before, the th had marched away westward, and were far from their comrades. All they had to do was to prevent any one's escaping to give warning of the condition of things in Wayne's command. All, therefore, were on the alert, and of this there was constant indication. The man or men who made the attempt would have to run the gauntlet.
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