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Beneath the tan the face was too lean and hard to be in sympathy with the high polish of flat-top desks. His body also was lean and hard. Even the proper cut of a carefully tailored business suit could not conceal a certain bunchiness about the shoulders which had nothing at all in common with office efficiency.
A frame building, small, with a flat shedlike roof, stood near the corral fence between the tracks and the big gates and Lawler entered the open door, to find a portly, bald-headed man sitting at a rough, flat-top desk. The man was busy with a pencil and a pad of papers when Lawler entered, and he continued to labor with them, not seeming to notice his visitor.
The straight ridge of East-River Mountain forms a barrier on the southern side of the basin, more than thirty miles away from the summit of Flat-top where Scammon's camp was placed on the road from Raleigh C. H. to Princeton, the county-seat of Mercer.
Rosecrans's plan of campaign Approved by McClellan with modification Wagons or pack-mules Final form of plan Changes in commands McClellan limited to Army of the Potomac Halleck's Department of the Mississippi Fremont's Mountain Department Rosecrans superseded Preparations in the Kanawha District Batteaux to supplement steamboats Light wagons for mountain work Fremont's plan East Tennessee as an objective The supply question Banks in the Shenandoah valley Milroy's advance Combat at McDowell Banks defeated Fremont's plans deranged Operations in the Kanawha valley Organization of brigades Brigade commanders Advance to Narrows of New River The field telegraph Concentration of the enemy Affair at Princeton Position at Flat-top Mountain.
Tisco had been so well trained in many fields of science that it was a wonder that Don Luis should feel the need of employing the two young American engineers. "You have seen my new engineers, Carlos?" queried Don Luis, almost in a whisper, as the two men, bending forward, faced each other over a flat-top desk.
Roger Payne had come to a decision. He waited until the office door had closed behind the departing stenographer, then swung his long legs recklessly upon his flat-top desk and shouted across the room at his partner: "Jim Tibbetts!" Tibbetts frowned. He was footing a column of cost figures and the blast from his young partner nearly made him lose count. Payne grinned. He liked his partner.
Colonel Scammon's brigade was to advance from Fayette C. H. to Flat-top Mountain as soon as the weather would permit, and thus secure the barrier covering our further movement southward. The brigade consisted of the Twelfth, Twenty-third, arid Thirtieth Ohio, with McMullin's battery, and one half the Second Virginia Cavalry.
He turned into a side street and stopped when his companion put a hand upon his arm. "This is our dump," said the young man, pointing to a long low frame building facing the side street. "Come in and let us have your story. It should be a good one." Inside the newspaper office another young man sat with his head lying on a flat-top desk.
This organization was approved by Fremont, and the preliminary steps were quietly taken. By the 20th of April Scammon's brigade was at Raleigh, only awaiting the settling of the roads to advance to Flat-top. A week later he held the passes of the mountain, with a detachment on the New River at the mouth of the Blue-stone, where he communicated with the right of Crook's brigade.
"But, if I'm forced to be a fool, I might as well have a well-finished job of it." Applerod, his poise nearly recovered, bounded into the office where Johnson sat stolidly working away, his sense of personal contentedness enhanced by the presence of Biff Bates, who sat idly upon the flat-top desk, dangling his legs and waiting for Bobby. Mr. Applerod paid no attention whatever to Mr.
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