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They kept cautiously out of the zone of light cast by the mutineers' campfire, which now, however, was dying out. Finally the craft grated on the sand. Under Drew's whispered directions, the men shouldered the stores, and the party commenced the toilsome march inland to the little fort. It was fully midnight when they were challenged by the sentinels at the edge of the wood.
Incipient runs on some had put all of them in an attitude of caution, and there was a natural reluctance to expose their own interests to jeopardy by coming to the relief of the Bank of Manhattan Island. Monty Brewster had something like $200,000 in Colonel Drew's bank.
In the paddock.... Drew's head raised an inch or so, and he pressed forward until his hat was pushed back by the rail. The two-year-old being schooled in the paddock was enough to excite any horseman. Red Springs' stock right enough, of the Gray Eagle-Ariel breed, which was Alexander Mattock's pride.
"If crime's been done, you've committed it." Ditty slid back a step and met the younger man's charge with a coolness that showed his taunt had been premeditated and that this result was expected. As the enraged Drew closed in, the mate met him with a frightful swing to the side of his bandaged head. Drew's head rocked on his shoulders, and for a moment he was dazed.
We also talked of America, and I soon surmised that Mr. Drew's ideas of "The States" were largely derived from a visit to the Wild West Show. So I put the question to him direct: "Did you see Buffalo Bill?" "Oh, yes." "And did Mr. Gladstone go?" "Not only once, but three times, and he cheered as loudly as any boy."
"List, 'tis the bugle!" What star, what sun is bursting on the bay?" "Well, how was Drew's play?" said one wag. "All blood and thunder, eh?" "No; all thud and blunder," was the rejoinder. The associative movement had now touched thousands of hearts in this country.
That inevitable tendency to failure engraved on the Drews followed him to the glass shop, and the latter became, in due course, the sole property of Drew's partner. If these men had gone upon a farm or sheep-run for two or three years' apprenticeship, investing their money safely meanwhile, they might have become in a few more years, prosperous colonists.
Momentary as Drew's scrutiny was, he saw that the one-eyed man was intoxicated. Not desiring to engage in a controversy with a stranger in that condition, he would have passed on quickly, but the fellow would not step aside. "Just let me pass, will you?" Drew said, eyeing the other warily.
I am rather interested in Millicent Drew's case myself. I never had a beau, much less two, and I do not mind now, for being an old maid does not hurt when you get used to it. Millicent's hair always looks to me as if she had swept it up with a broom. But the men do not seem to mind that." "They see only her pretty, piquant, mocking, little face, Susan." "That may very well be, Mrs. Dr. dear.
The committee reported that, according to Drew's testimony, $500,000 had been drawn out of the Erie railroad's treasury, ostensibly for purposes of litigation, and that it was clear "that large sums of money did come from the treasury of the Erie Railroad Company, which were expended for some purpose in Albany, for which no vouchers seem to have been filed in the offices of the company."
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