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"Her dad ain't home. He went over Riverhead way more than an hour ago." "But, Jud " "Dry up that butting, Hank, or we'll lead you out in the alley behind your store and feed you tin cans." Hank climbed back to his wagon-seat, and Jud, noticing the determined expression in the storekeeper's eyes, deputized two men to keep watch of him while he went inside and did some telephoning.

It was announced several months prior to its commencement that the holy prophet Elisha was deputized to visit the Zion of God on earth, and to bestow upon each individual those graces which each needed, and to baptize with the Holy Ghost all the young who would prepare their souls for such a baptism. "The time at length arrived. No one knew the manner in which the prophet would make himself known.

The persons deputized by the archdeacon have been nearly as incapable as himself. It was almost a matter for thankfulness that this state of things had not been permitted to continue, and a letter from a friend confirms this view. My poor friend! Upon what a scene of confusion will you be entering!

Douglas, senior, were carefully packed up, together with Maggie's dress; and then, shawled and bonneted, she waited impatiently for her carriage, which she preferred to the cars. It came at last, but in place of John, the usual coachman, Mike, a rather wild youth of twenty, was mounted upon the box. His father, he said, had been taken suddenly ill, and had deputized him to drive.

"Ah! My son Cuthbert? Handsome young dog, and like his father, finds beauty the most powerful magnet. Where did you meet him?" "Once only, when he was introduced by our minister, who deputized him to deliver to me some custom-house regulations. "Did you meet Mrs. Laurance?" "Your wife, sir?" Annoyance instantaneously clouded his countenance, and Dr. Plymley gnawed his lower lip to hide a smile.

Kittle, of Ebensburg, has been deputized to take charge of the valuables taken from the bodies and keep a registry of them, and also to note any marks of identification that may be found. A number of the bodies have been stripped of rings or bracelets and other valuables.

I was billed to appear at a dug-out about a quarter of a mile to the left that evening to have rather a special thing in trench dinners not quite so much bully and Maconochie about as usual. A bottle of red wine and a medley of tinned things from home deputized in their absence. The day had been entirely free from shelling, and somehow we all felt that the Boches, too, wanted to be quiet.

If you once get away bring the Bar Cross boys and they'll take Foy out of here in broad day." "Very pretty but there's four men in Las Uvas that know me and three of them are police. Maybe they'll stay in the city though being police?" "No, they won't," said the Major gloomily. "They'll be along deputized, of course. Maybe they won't be in the first batch though.

In the tonneau were two seats, each roomy enough for three. As the car started on, all chatting eagerly, Avella supplemented Andra's remark with: "Papa had to attend some kind of a war meeting at Versailles. He deputized us to welcome you., Mr. Erwin insisted oncoming, too." "Why, this is great, great!" enthused Blaine, his awkwardness all gone under the cordiality of this greeting.

The message was from Mike Sutton, stating that a fourth member of the ring had arrived during the forenoon, accompanied by a United States marshal from the federal court at Omaha; that the officer was armed with an order of injunctive relief; that he had deputized thirty men whom Tolleston had gathered, and proposed taking possession of the two herds in question that afternoon.