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And Bart's plan being adopted, our two humble, friendless, and nearly penniless adventurers left the wood, and entering the northern road, set forth on their destination, Woodburn first mounting the pony and keeping some hundred yards in advance, and Bart forming the rear-guard, under the agreement that the latter, on hearing any bounds of pursuit, should utter the cry of the raccoon, when both were to plunge into the woods, and remain till the danger had passed by.
For the Saturday before the trial gallop had brought Mat Woodburn a letter from Miller, the station-clerk at Arunvale, which was the station for Dewhurst. The station-clerk had a feud of many years' standing with Jaggers, and had moreover substantial reasons of his own for not wishing Mocassin to win at Aintree.
"Were you speaking of me, Colonel Woodburn?" Alma asked. "Surely not, my dear young lady." "But he's been saying that awtusts are just as greedy aboat money as anybody," said his daughter. "The law of commercialism is on everything in a commercial society," the Colonel explained, softening the tone in which his convictions were presented.
"Going to have that in every number, Miss Woodburn!" he cried. "Oh, mah goodness!" she said, with mock humility. Alma sat looking at her piquant head, black, unconsciously outlined against the lamp, as she sat working by the table. "Just keep still a moment!"
"I seem to have put my foot in it, somehow," he suggested, and Miss Woodburn gave a cry of laughter. "Poo' Mr. Fulkerson! Poo' Mr. Fulkerson! Papa thoat you wanted him to go." "Wanted him to go?" repeated Fulkerson. "We always mention Mr. Beaton when we want to get rid of papa." "Well, it seems to me that I have noticed that he didn't take much interest in Beaton, as a general topic.
Do you want her to ride?" "No!" he cried, almost with indignation. "Of course I don't. I've seen too many Nationals." "Have you asked her not to?" He grinned a little sheepishly. "The truth is I've annoyed her," he said. "And she's all spikes when I touch her." Mrs. Woodburn appealed to her husband, but got nothing out of him. "It's no good comin' to me, Mar.
While the General remained at Meerpoor, he sent forward the camel battery of Captain Whitley, supported by the 25th Sepoy Infantry, under Major Woodburn. There was but little water, and a risk of the Indus rising, so that it would have been dangerous to have gone with the whole army. He promised the Lion terms if he would surrender at once. News was brought him that the Indus was rising.
"I am sorry to say that it was Peter Lamb who first mentioned Josiah to George Grey as a runaway. When he spoke of his lost fingers, George was led to suspect who Josiah really was. Then he saw him, and as soon as he was sure, he wrote to a Mr. Woodburn, who was Josiah's old owner." "I suppose he recognized Josiah readily?" "Yes, he had been a servant of George's friend, Mr.
"But Ah most say," Miss Woodburn went on, "Ah don't envy you you' next interview with Mr. Dryfoos. Ah suppose you'll have to see him at once aboat it." The conjecture recalled Fulkerson to the object of his confidences. "Ah, there's where your help comes in. I've exhausted all the influence I have with Dryfoos " "Good gracious, you don't expect Ah could have any!"
But there was no fear of that. Those fellows can always be depended upon to cut one another's throats in the long run." "But sometimes," said Colonel Woodburn, who had been watching throughout for a chance to mount his hobby again, "they make a good deal of trouble first. How was it in the great railroad strike of '77?"
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