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Updated: June 4, 2025
"But why do you want to gather mushrooms?" "I don't want to gather mushrooms. I really want to see you where I think you belong." "In the fields?" Helen suggested humorously. "No," said Festing. "I don't mean in the fields. I've seen you in the afternoon when the sun's on the ripening corn and the leaves are dark and thick, but they stand for fulfilment, and that's not your proper setting.
On the 2d of November, however, Colonel Festing again marched out from Dunquah with a hundred men of the 2d West India regiment, nine hundred native allies, and some Houssas with rockets, under Lieutenant Wilmot, towards the Ashanti camp. This time Ammon Quatia was not taken by surprise.
They landed at Cape Coast Castle on the 9th of June, when Colonel Festing assumed command of the troops on the coast, and Captain Fremantle became senior naval officer on the station.
When you see things that demand to be done, you want to begin right there and get at the job. If you wait to see if it's yours or somebody else's, you're apt not to start at all." "Your plan has drawbacks now and then," Kerr remarked. "But what are you going to do about the other matter?" Festing was silent for a few moments.
"Come near the stove and smoke if you like. It is very cold." "No sign of the frost's breaking, I suppose?" said Festing, who lay propped up with pillows. "Did you get the particulars I asked for, Bob?" Charnock gave him a paper with some calculations, and after a time he nodded. "On the whole, this is satisfactory; things are going better than I thought.
"I'm going back to finish the job; these particular snares won't be used again. If you like, I'll come over every evening and pull the blamed things up." "I don't think that will be necessary," Helen answered with a strained laugh. She felt disturbed and excited when Festing turned away.
If I'd let the thing go, the boys would have thought his statements true, and the tale is bad enough to deal with." Helen gave him a steady look, but her color was high and her face was hard. "But you know it isn't true!" "Of course," said Festing, with quiet scorn. "All that the brute insinuated is absolutely false.
A large body of Ashantees, two or three thousand strong, now approached Elmina, when they were gallantly attacked by Colonel Festing with the marines, and a party of bluejackets under Captain Fremantle, some men of the 2nd West India Regiment, and a body of Houssas.
"I expect you thought waiting for me to wake was easier than rolling logs," Charnock suggested. "Oh, well!" said the other; "you won't find we've fooled away much time." Charnock went to Festing's shack and the doctor nodded and indicated his comrade's bunk. As Charnock stopped beside it Festing turned his head. "Things going all right, Bob?"
Then there was a heavy snorting and the locomotive came round a curve, rocking and belching out black smoke. The cars banged and rattled, slowing with jarred couplings and rolling on when the driving wheels gripped. Festing waited anxiously, because the wheels of a locomotive when driven hard strikes what is called a hammer blow.
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