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Thus ends the story of the last of the conquistadores, who had found only villages of barbarians and tribes of half-naked savages, and returned empty-handed from his long chase after the Will-o’ the-wisp of Quivira and its fleeting treasures.
I am firmly convinced that you're honest, but as firmly convinced that you're chasing a will-o'- the-wisp so I hold out very little hope for you in the matter of that loan." "But my water-right is good for ten times the amount" pleaded Bob desperately, and produced T. Morgan Carey's letter to bolster up his argument. "All I need is money to develop it." "And in the meantime it's worth ten cents.
Until it does let us make the most of it while it lasts." He said the words bitterly. Constance was confirmed in her original suspicion of him now. Halsey was getting deeper and deeper into the moral quagmire. She had seen his interest in Mrs. Noble. Had Bella LeMar hoped that she, too, would play will-o '-the-wisp in leading him on? Over the still half-eaten supper she watched Halsey keenly.
John Reid, principal lightkeeper, who also acted as master of the floating light during the working months at the rock, described the appearance of numerous lights situated so low in the water, when seen at the distance of two or three miles, as putting him in mind of Milton's description of the fiends in the lower regions, adding, 'for it seems greatly to surpass Will-o'- the-Wisp, or any of those earthly spectres of which we have so often heard.
And when he came to himself again, he knew not what had befallen him, till, at length, he found that it was his fate to hover, without rest or change, over the surface of the bog as a Will-o'- the-wisp. "With me it fell out quite otherwise," said the first: "instead of giving light without warmth, as I now do, I burned without shining.
"I thought of that," said Bill, "but I didn't suppose you girls could walk it, with those foolish step-ladder heels you're wearing. And white satin slippers aren't real good style for mud- wading. I could carry you, Miss Fairfield, you're only a will-o'- the-wisp; but Daisy here is a heavyweight." "Oh, no matter about me," said Daisy, spitefully; "just see that Miss Fairfield is looked after!"
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