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"Not he!" cried the little creature, impetuously, "Oh, the old bogey-man! He's worse than the wicked giant in the book. I wish I was a Jack-the-giant-killer. I'd " Words apparently failing her to express a punishment fitting for Col. Witham, the child shook a not very formidable fist in the direction of the tavern, then added, sharply, "Where are you going?"
The London branch of the establishment at Witham was founded by Sir Walter de Manni, seigneur de Manni in Cambrai, France, who was made a knight of the Garter by Edward III., in reward for gallant services.
They stood beside their chairs, eying the proprietor of the Half Way House, curiously. He, in turn, glared at them in astonishment, fully equal to theirs, while his red face went from its normal fiery hue to deep purple, and his hands clenched. "Colonel Witham!" they exclaimed, in the same breath. "What are you two doing here?" he cried. "What new monkey-shine of yours is this?
But Hugh's chief work at Witham was in his building, his spiritual and intellectual influence upon the men he came to know, in the direction of personal and social holiness: and, above all, he was mastering the ways and works of England so sympathetically that he was able to take a place afterwards as no longer a Burgundian but a thorough son of the nation and the church.
His buildings at Witham, enumerated in the Great Life, and not even planned before his time, are the major and minor churches, the cells for monks, the cloisters, the brothers' little houses, and the guest chambers.
Up and out with Captain Witham in several places again to look for oats for Tangier, and among other places to the City granarys, where it seems every company have their granary and obliged to keep such a quantity of corne always there or at a time of scarcity to issue so much at so much a bushell: and a fine thing it is to see their stores of all sorts, for piles for the bridge, and for pipes, a thing I never saw before.
Witham too, and your kindness deserves a return on my part. I promise to take no more strong tea no tea at all till you let me and I shall go to bed tonight at one o'clock at latest. Will that do? 'Capital, said the doctor. 'Now tell us all that you noticed in the old house, and so Malcolmson then and there told in minute detail all that had happened in the last two nights.
Ah, they say listen they say the man has concealed papers that are wanted by you concealed them in his place of business." "Yes, yes, but where?" cried Colonel Witham. "In the safe, or around the machinery where-abouts?" "Listen," said the voice. "The spirits seem angry again " "Let 'em be angry!" bellowed Colonel Witham. "They'll not get another cent, confound 'em!"
They were half frozen, with the chilling of the water and with the fright. Even Colonel Witham, mindful now of the situation, was there to let them in and allow them the warmth of the fire. "You're soaking wet," he said to Henry Burns. "There's some old clothes that Jim Ellison left, hanging in that closet on the floor above. They'll swallow you, but they're dry."
Look out the window; you'll see his lantern. Better turn ours down, quick." They lost no time in following this advice; then crept to the window that looked on the road and peered out. The swinging and swaying of a lantern could be seen, indistinctly in the distance. Colonel Witham was coming. The boys sped quickly up two flights of stairs into the garret.
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