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Brewster thought it was the tale of the trip and the trials throughout the blizzard, and they cared little for what had passed as long as all were safe and happy again. But Polly blurted out the truth to make them listen. "I found Montresor's gold mine, Paw!" It hit the mark! In the shock the news made upon the Brewsters, no one noticed Polly's slip on the old pet title.
The three girls were spell-bound at her vivid descriptions and Anne sighed with desire to put it all down on paper for future publication. "Montresor's Mine is in this mountain that I want to show you to-day. He was a dear old man who lived a solitary life in a cabin near Buffalo Park. Patsy, his dog, was his only companion.
The letter reached me at breakfast. In Mrs. Montresor's name and his own, he asked me to stay with them till my plans developed. He he was kind enough to say he felt himself partly responsible for last night." "And you replied?" The Duke eyed her keenly. Julie sighed and looked down. "I begged him not to think any more of me in the matter, but to write at once to Lady Henry.
Suddenly, Lord Lackington pulled up, his instinct for declamation qualified by an equally instinctive dread of boring or being bored. "What did you think of Montresor's statement?" he said, abruptly, referring to a batch of army reforms that Montresor the week before had endeavored to recommend to a sceptical House of Commons. "All very well, as far as it goes," said Warkworth, with a shrug.
The two younger girls then told of the pit and the river and all agreed that it might be the stream found by the prospector before the landslide covered his claim. MONTRESOR'S CLAIM is JUSTIFIED Polly turned to place the nuggets in the pannier and almost collided with Noddy. "Hello, darling! What do you want eh?" said she, patting the burro's head.
That is why we never had a reply to our ads," replied Mr. Simms. Eleanor was elated at the romance of this experience, and turned to Polly, exclaiming: "Oh, Poll! S'posing we meet Montresor's son some day, and you fall in love with him without knowing who he is! Then it will all come out when he visits your parents to ask for you, and he will get his share of the mine, anyway!"
But for Montresor's remonstrances it is likely that I should have set out forthwith to wait upon her. I permitted myself, however, to be persuaded that the lateness of the hour would render my visit unwelcome, and so I determined in the end albeit grudgingly to put off my departure for Blois until the morrow.
I know something about land-slides after living in Pebbly Pit for fourteen years, and even a little slide at the lava cliffs causes an awful destruction, so I can picture what this gigantic slide would do if it ever got started down!" "You said it happened when Montresor's Mine was buried?" reminded Eleanor.
Penn's plan; and so to Cohocsink Creek dragoons and foot. North of them were Colonel Montresor's nine blockhouses, connected by a heavy stockade and abatis, and in front of this chevaux-de-frise and the tangled mass of dead trees which had so beaten me when I escaped.
Tom finished and John eagerly asked: "What do you-all think of our great idea? Of course, Montresor's heirs ought to hold an interest, but should they be Kenneth and his mother, it will simplify matters for all." That started such a babel of voices that Sam Brewster got up and left the room.
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