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Captain Barnett immediately set out with thirty-one men, and uniting with Captains Bratton and McLure, completely surprised and routed the enemy, killing ninety-seven, among the number Major Hook and Colonel Ferguson, of the Tory militia. This was Kerr's last service as a spy. After the war he moved to Tennessee, and died in White county, at a good old age.
Moreover, he had bought and fed a number of expensive Percheron horses, which ought to have been used for harvesting and hauling the grain to the railroad, and had engaged men at lower wages than usual, on the understanding that he kept them through the winter. Now there was nothing for both to do, although their maintenance would cost as much as before. He read Kerr's letter again.
Now all her waiting was for Kerr's returning. She did not know how she should face him, but she wanted him. A telegram came an hour before him, came to Mrs. Herrick announcing him; and then himself, driven up on the high seat of the cart, just as daylight was closing. She and Mrs.
Kerr's castle, too, is much larger and more strongly fortified.
But how, why?... 'Was it something done, something said? Strange to remember now the hurried journey to the Beach last year, that afternoon in Willie Kerr's apartment.... "Throw out those flowers in the window, Flora.... They've been faded for days." She went down the stairs in that inner state which her country had once found unendurable: she was half slave and half free.
Kerr's nervous anxiety would seem to indicate that he expected something to happen at Glendora. It hadn't occurred to Lambert before that this might be possible. It seemed a foolish oversight. His apprehension, as well as Kerr's evident expectation, seemed groundless as he stepped off the train almost directly in front of the waiting-room door, giving Kerr a hand down the steps.
Kerr's Collection of Voyages, vol. viii. p. 119. Purchas's Collection of Voyages. I believe the date was really 1537. Azara has even doubted whether the Pampas Indians ever used bows.
Herrick's hand soliciting the clasp of those gave Flora a curious sensation. She looked from one face to another, and last at Kerr's. She shut her eyes an instant. Here was a thief. He was standing in her drawing-room now. She had been talking with him. She opened her eyes. The fact acknowledged had not altered the color of daylight.
Till then you had best retire to your new estates, and spend the time in preparing your vassals to follow you in the field, and in putting one or other of your castles in the best state of defence you may. Methinks that the Kerr's hold may more easily be made to withstand a lengthened siege than Glen Cairn, seeing that the latter is commanded by the hill beside it.
"You don't need it, but it'll clear your mind of all doubt of your power," he explained. "Can we get through this fence?" "Up here six or seven miles, about opposite Kerr's place. But I'd like to go on to the house and change horses; I've rode this one over forty miles today already." The sheriff agreed.
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