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Two of their number, with horses too slow for a chase after nimble ponies, had, as we have seen, drifted back, and joined, unprepared though they were for the field, the rear of Webb's column. But now came another, not aiming for Webb, but heading for Frayne. It meant news from the chase that might be important.
He was tense as a coiled spring. His friend noticed that the boy was listening intently, every faculty concentrated at attention. A man leaning against the other end of the bar was speaking. He had a shock of long red hair and a squint to his eyes. "Sure you're right. A bunch of Webb's gunmen got Ranse caught him out alone and riddled him.
"Uncle John," she faltered, "I want you to to tell me what he comes to see father so often about?" Webb's face waxed a trifle more serious. "I don't know never give it much thought," he said. "I don't know but what your pa once in a while sells Gid some corn to help out his still in a pinch when the authorities are watchin' his movements too close for comfort.
Lane again. "If they like it, what's the odds?" "He-he!" snickered Miss Brooks. "Well, now," resumed Mr. Hardcastle, "it stands to reason children should learn to like what their elders have liked before them. That's the only decent and Christian way of living. Webb's prayers, and Mr.
The idea of a simple mountain girl from Webb's Gap having five whole pounds of candy at once! "The funniest thing happened to-day, and I must not forget to write Donald all about it. He is sure to remember little red-headed Jimmy, who has to spend so much of his time in the hospital.
It would be unwise to quote verses or epigrams that depend so much upon the occasion and the environment. Only a George Meredith can sustain a preface boasting of his heroine's wit throughout the book, but I will risk one example of Godfrey Webb's quickness. He took up a newspaper one morning in the dining-room at Glen and, reading that a Mr.
The best winter fishing is from December to March, and as many as one hundred and seventy pounds, or about two hundred bass, have been taken in twenty-four hours from one line of nets; at other times the luck is very bad, for the fish seem to run in streaks. The luck was exceedingly moderate on the present occasion, but enough fish were caught to satisfy Webb's needs.
Whatever the courts may do, Nature is certain to reverse our decisions and bring to naught our action unless we comply with her laws and requirements." The squire's experience coincided so truly with Webb's words that he urged no further objections against accurate agricultural knowledge, even though the information must be obtained in part at least from books and journals. "Doctor," said Mrs.
Weak and impulsive as you may consider me, I did not want him to suffer on account of a moment's madness, as he undoubtedly would if he were ever found with Agatha Webb's money in his possession, so I plunged it deeper into the soil and trusted to the confusion which crime always awakens even in the strongest mind, for him not to discover its hiding-place till the danger connected with it was over."
They wanted to send him to Congress in Webb's place, you know." "Yes, I know," said Galt. "Hello, Bassett," as Tom Bassett joined him. "Where've you been? Lost sight of you this morning." "Oh, I was out with the Committee on Credentials. A member? I should say not. I wanted to hear that Madison County case, so I got made sergeant-at-arms.
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