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Night fell, the colors were furled and the saplings dropped, and we pressed into serried ranks and marched straight over hill and dale for the lights that were beginning to twinkle ahead of us. We halted once more, a quarter of a mile away. Clark himself had picked fourteen men to go under Lieutenant Bayley through the town and take the fort from the other side. Here was audacity with a vengeance.
It is a pretty scene to feast upon, yet my soul cannot drink it in. I am on the way to friends, a feeling of desolation takes hold of me; but I must control myself, and by God's help I will, for his goodness is forever sure. Rev. John McDougall, Dr. Hooper, Captain Dillon, Capt. Nash and Messrs. Fox and Bayley, of Toronto, and Mrs.
What rendered his disappointment even more bitter was the thought that, indirectly, it was Frank who had dealt him the blow, for Captain Bayley had mentioned in his letter that it was through the boy whom his cousin had recommended as an assistant to the footman that the discovery had been made. The visit that he paid at Eaton Square was a short one.
"Of course, Captain Bayley, having met your nephew at your house several times, I cannot for a moment believe him guilty of taking the note; still, I must admit that the evidence is strongly circumstantial, and were it a stranger who was accused, I should say at once the thing looked nasty." "Pooh! nonsense, Griffith," the old officer said angrily; "there's nothing in it, sir nothing whatever.
It was George Bayley, a young man of good education, excellent training, and once of great promise, but of most unfortunate recent experience. About a year previous he had embezzled a small amount of the funds of a corporation in Newville, of which he was paymaster, for the purpose of raising money for a pressing emergency.
Captain Bayley walked up and down the room with quick steps, uttering exclamations testifying his anger and annoyance. "Has he got any money?" he said suddenly, halting before Fred. "Did he get any money from you?" Fred hesitated again, and then said. "Well, uncle, since you insist upon knowing, I did let him have twenty pounds which I got for the sale of my books."
"Thank God for that, at least," Captain Bayley said fervently. "Do not be long, Alice; you know what I shall be feeling." He went back into his room again, and closed the door, and Mr. Adams continued
But you really must not see her for a time." "I am all right now," Captain Bayley said, rising to his elbow, "and it will agitate me less to see her than to wait. She brought me very strange news, news which I never thought to hear. It is not bad news, my dear," he said, to Alice, "it is the best news I ever heard.
He'll be scuppered. The Guard will be scuppered!" Here Blue Breeches, overcome by the reproof of his fellows, began to weep. "I didn't tell," he roared. "My big bruvver he knew when he saw them go up the road..." "Never mind! Never mind, old man," said Bayley soothingly. "I'm not fighting to-day. It's all right."
Clerke had been all three voyages with Cook, and was only thirty-eight years of age. Gore now took command of the Resolution, Burney, Rickman, and Lanyon being his lieutenants, whilst King was the new Captain of the Discovery, and Williamson and Hervey his lieutenants; Bayley going with Gore in charge of the astronomical observations.
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