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The Oliver Exhibit at the great Fair was a kind of meeting-place for a group of such choice spirits as Philip D. Armour, Sam Allerton, Clark E. Carr and Joseph Medill; and then David Swing, Robert Collyer, Doctor Frank Gunsaulus and 'Gene Field were added to the coterie. 'Gene Field's column of "Sharps and Flats" used to get the benefit of the persiflage.
"My old Dutch pal, then, turned up here ten days ago. He was bubbling over with excitement. 'Mr. Allerton' he says, 'I haf a writing, a most mysterious writing a I think, from Francis Okewood. "I sat tight. If there were any revelations coming they were going to be Dutch, not British. On that I was resolved.
Saints defend her! She is here, disguised, in London!" "Margaret! our hero-queen! the manlike woman!" exclaimed Allerton, clasping his hands. "Then be sure that " He stopped, and abruptly taking Adam's arm, drew him aside, while Henry continued to read "Master Warner, we may trust thee, thou art one of us; thou art sent here, I know; by Robin of Redesdale, we may trust thee?"
What a cursed fool I had been not to wire from Groningen! I had fully intended to, but the extraordinary conversation I had had with Dicky Allerton had put everything else out of my head. At every hotel I had tried it had been the same story Cooman's, the Maas, the Grand, all were full even to the bathrooms. If I had only wired.... As I passed out into the porch I bethought myself of the porter.
The third house, headed by Isaac Allerton and his daughters, was the home of Bradford, Winslow, Mistress Susannah White, with her children, Resolved and Peregrine, and her brother, Doctor Fuller, with their little nephew, Samuel Fuller, whose father and mother both lay on Cole's Hill.
He sat in an armchair, and begged them to draw it near the window. The sky was cloudless, and the moon shone brightly. Fred Allerton could see the great old elms that surrounded Hamlyn's Purlieu; and his eyes were fixed steadily upon them.
"But dost not see, John, that thou 'rt hindering me from quenching my thirst? Go thou and bring thy steel cap full of water for Master Allerton, and when I see him revived I'll go right gladly to lap water out of my hand among my three hundred." "You are ever right, master," replied Alden briefly, and ran to do as he was bid.
Cut him loose, and follow me. They're on the Fort Allerton trail or my name's not Fyles." Peter led the race for the Fort Allerton trail. The dark night clouds were breaking when they reached the spot where the inspector had originally stationed himself. They passed on, and a glimmer of moonlight peeped out at them as they reached the trail side.
Not waiting to question farther, Standish seized his snaphance which in these days seldom was out of reach, and briefly shouting, "Follow me!" rushed out, looked about him, and seeing nothing seized young John Billington by the arm and demanded, "Where are these Indians, thou yelping cur! Didst rouse that hubbub for naught?" "Nay, Bart Allerton and Johnny Cooke and I all saw them"
He wanted to have his friends gathered around him, and he needed relaxation after the boredom of spending a morning in his lawyer's office. 'Come on, he said. 'I can't wait another minute. He opened the door, and Lucy walked out. It seemed to Dick that Allerton was avoiding any chance of conversation with him.
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