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Dos, though near sixty, was so small and wiry, that at a little distance he might have been mistaken for a boy. As Hendricks intended to start at daylight, he ordered all hands to lie down at an early hour, and obtain as much rest as they could, with the hard ground for their beds, and the starry heavens overhead.
And when Barclay was a great and powerful man in the world, these men, being interviewed by reporters about the personality of Barclay, took pride in telling this story of his blundering. But when Bob Hendricks reached Sycamore Ridge Thursday noon, confidence in the safety of the bank was founded upon a rock.
Moreover, the bright eyes that used to flash into Bob Hendricks' steady blue eyes had grown tired, and women who did not know, wondered why such a pretty girl had broken so.
Hendricks leaned forward unconsciously, and the colonel dropped both hands to his knees and leaned toward Hendricks. "Robert Hendricks," asked the colonel, as he bored his deep black eyes into the younger man, "did you know about that option in the wheat land mortgage? Answer me, sir!" "Not at the time, Colonel," returned Hendricks, and began, "but I "
"How very curious!" said Percy. "When I get home to my father and mother, I must tell them all about it. They will be much interested, and I hope, Lionel, that you will come and see them." "I should like to do so very much, if Hendricks will let me," said Lionel.
"We must send these brutes away, or they'll give us no time for sleep," said Hendricks, and he summoned Umgolo and another experienced hunter to his side. Ordering the other men to keep back the dogs, he slowly advanced with his two companions towards the foot of the mound.
Hendricks disagreed with the Senator from Delaware that the people of the South, at once and without consideration, must turn their backs upon the proposition now made them in order to maintain their honor. He hoped they would bring to the consideration of the subject the coolest judgment and the highest patriotism. He was still opposed to the bill; he approved of the President's veto.
"Well," Barclay snapped, "you have your choice, so if you think more of the bank and your old hayseeds than you do of Molly, don't come blubbering around me about selling her." "John," sighed Hendricks, after a long wrestle a final contest with his demon, "I've gone all over that.
When church was out, I heard Sam invitin' Brother Hendricks to go home and take dinner with him Brother Hendricks'd preached for us that day and they all drove off together before I'd had time to speak to Milly.
As he hurried through the underbrush, Ward ran into Bob Hendricks hiding in the thicket. Ward took the child's hand and he began to sob: "I saw Elmer go up that hill, Captain; I saw him go up with the horses and he ain't come back." But Ward did not understand him, and hurried the little fellow along with John to the surgeon.
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