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Their house was
the last of a row of villas almost in the country, and before and behind
them stretched green fields.
Let me describe Lena Graham to you, as she stands, sniffing up the | 1 | Adventure stories |
And I hope Lena will
remember that though you have allowed her to see yours, letters are
sacred, and she must never look at any without leave that are not
addressed to her."
"No, Papa, indeed | 1 | Adventure stories |
It was
a habit that she had got into during the years when she was quite alone
and before she had taken charge of Lena: gradually she had not only read
out the letters before | 1 | Adventure stories |
Graham, when she heard of this
resolution "I am very sorry for it, my child, but I cannot help
myself It would not be fair to deny any of the others their pleasure
because you | 1 | Adventure stories |
Then kneeling beside her
child’s little bed she thanked Him, in a few heartfelt words, for having
watched over and guarded her little one, during those six long years of
separation.
*CHAPTER III.*
*THE PETITION.*
The | 1 | Adventure stories |
She watched the cab come "creeping along," as she called
it.
Then as it drew very near, a new fit came over her—a fit of shyness.
Clasping Auntie’s hand very tight, she crept very close | 1 | Adventure stories |
Clifford were
waiting for them—Milly all smiles and beaming with pleasure at sight of
the dear home faces Though so glad to see them, she had evidently been
very happy with Mrs Clifford, to judge | 1 | Adventure stories |
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LENA GRAHAM ***
Produced by Al Haines.
[Illustration: Cover art]
[Illustration: THE SLIPPERY ROCKS See p 53.]
LENA GRAHAM
BY
CECILIA SELBY LOWNDES
AUTHOR OF
"LINFORD GREEN," "NEW | 1 | Adventure stories |
Not so a little dog she had with
her At sight of the Graham girls, he stood still and set up a series
of shrill barks Lena and Milly hesitated whether to attempt to | 1 | Adventure stories |
I
love you ever so much more now since you have been to Sidcombe;" and the
child looked round at them all, as much as to say, "There now, I have
spoken out what I | 1 | Adventure stories |
"I did not mean to put you out by asking you to
hurry, Lena."
Lena vouchsafed no answer to this; so Milly went on, "I know I can’t
manage half so well as you do—come | 1 | Adventure stories |
Graham had arrived in England.
The child was naturally all eagerness to see them; not even the
knowledge that in a few days she would be separated from her Aunt could
cast a shadow over | 1 | Adventure stories |
Of course Millicent and Lucy would love her as much as she was
prepared to love them, and they would all be so happy together, she
knew The only shadow was the thought that | 1 | Adventure stories |
I always coax and coax Aunt Mary till she says ’Yes.’"
"Does she always say yes when you coax?" was the surprised remark
elicited from Milly.
"Not always," Lena had to confess, "but sometimes."
There was | 1 | Adventure stories |
Like many other things in this world that we dread and
think of as misfortunes, it turned out, as is so often the case, to be a
real blessing when it came Bessie was | 1 | Adventure stories |
Although her eyes were shut, her thoughts were very busy.
Gertrude’s words came back to her over and over again, "To die doing
wrong." Her head ached dreadfully, which was not to be wondered | 1 | Adventure stories |
They so seldom met any one in these
quiet lanes, that both the girls stopped their work to see who was
coming In a few moments their curiosity was gratified by seeing their
old friend | 1 | Adventure stories |
Clifford in particular.
"No, Milly, I don’t want the hat: they were both sent to you; of course
she likes you best—every one does." And with these words, and without a
kind look or word | 1 | Adventure stories |
I thought you both had decided on
making your room pretty and keeping it so."
"So we did Let us go and do it now, Lena, while Lucy has her sleep."
For little Lucy always | 1 | Adventure stories |
You will be like
Papa and Mama, who only seem to love me more, if that is possible;
only," she added with a smile, "Mama says the love was always there, but
I wouldn’t see | 1 | Adventure stories |
He thought, however, that whispered prayers
had succeeded the former ones Still, as this silence was prolonged, he
went a little higher, and was staggered at only seeing Tcharanguii and
his four warriors, lying on | 1 | Adventure stories |
Inez did not
understand what relations could exist between this captain and the
future, and cross-questioned Maria; but the latter either did not
answer the question or evaded it.
"In truth, sister," Inez said to her, | 1 | Adventure stories |
Go, and may Heaven aid you to find Inez."
Leon bent his knee before the old man.
"Sir," he said to him, with profound emotion, "my life and heart belong
to you; take one and | 1 | Adventure stories |
"I fancied that I must return to Valparaíso; but
what my friend has just said is perfectly correct, so you can dispose
of us as you please."
"In that case, gentlemen," said the general, who | 1 | Adventure stories |
Inez and Maria were
two maidens whose beauty promised to equal that of their mother, Doña
Isabel de Costafuentes Maria, the younger, according to the custom
prevalent in Chilian families, was forced into a convent | 1 | Adventure stories |
Ere
long an impenetrable mist spread between the eyes of the young man and
his friend, who entirely disappeared.
Then Leon began cursing the fatal love which had come to torture his
heart, and the hours | 1 | Adventure stories |
It was at this moment that the President of the
Republic, followed by a few devoted soldiers, formed a hollow square on
the Plaza de la Merced, in the centre of which he placed | 1 | Adventure stories |
Others merely impelled by the irresistible
attractions which extraordinary enterprises offer to, vagabond
imaginations, have also started, during the last fifty years, in search
of the Indian cities, but, up to the present day, success | 1 | Adventure stories |
On seeing this,
soldiers and generals knelt down.
"Christians!" said the bishop, a venerable, white-haired old man, whom
two vicars held under the arms, "go whither duty summons you Save your
country, or die for it | 1 | Adventure stories |
The shock was terrible Don Pedro and Don Juan recognised
their common enemy, and cutting their way through the dead and wounded,
both attacked him at once.
"Ah!" Diego shouted, "we meet at last, then."
"Yes," | 1 | Adventure stories |
The image of Doña Maria floated before his eyes; he saw her
pale and trembling after he had saved her from his horse's rush, and
then, carrying himself mentally within the walls of the | 1 | Adventure stories |
At one
moment he crawls like a reptile on the detritus of leaves, dead wood,
and birds' deposits, piled up for centuries; at another, he leaps from
branch to branch at the top of the | 1 | Adventure stories |
All this formed a
din rendered more horrible still by the sight of the fire which was
beginning to tinge the sky with a red and ill-omened glare.
Tahi-Mari, naked to the waist, his hair | 1 | Adventure stories |
Have my horse saddled for I shall accompany
you."
"We will start within a quarter of an hour; but in order that I may
take my precautions, tell me what I have to do when | 1 | Adventure stories |
Nothing could be conceived so
filthy, repulsive, and frightful as the appearance of this camp,
forming a girdle round the city It was hopeless to look for parallels
or covered ways; not even a sentry | 1 | Adventure stories |
The last
one took the additional precaution of effacing as well as he could the
traces left by his predecessors Harrison, after looking after them for
some time, sat down again by the fireside.
"No matter," | 1 | Adventure stories |
Hence it follows very naturally, that it is
impossible for him to obtain the fine clothes which he covets, and
whose price is so heavy, that he despairs of ever possessing them.
In order to | 1 | Adventure stories |
The Northern
tribes never really existed as a political power; each of them exercise
a separate government; the Indians composing them rarely intermarry
with their neighbours, and constantly lead a nomadic life Hence
they have never | 1 | Adventure stories |
I thank you from the
bottom of my heart for your devotion to our family Alas!" she said, as
if speaking to herself, "perhaps it would have been better for you and
for us had | 1 | Adventure stories |
Crevel had told the truth, the key
was in it, and a light could be seen gleaming through the cracks.
The greatest silence, however, prevailed inside After a moment's
hesitation, the young man turned the | 1 | Adventure stories |
Look! Look!"
"No! No!" she cried.
"The shrine is there Seek it! Seek it!"
He forced the words through his teeth in his concentrated effort to
drive them into the girl's brain in the form of | 1 | Adventure stories |
He would have undergone double what he had
been through for the reward of this note--for this assurance of her
faith in him It cemented their friendship as nothing else could For
him it went | 1 | Adventure stories |
Well in the front
squatted "Bum" Jocelin, known to the water-front police for fifteen
years,--six feet of threatening insolence; "Black" Morrison with two
penitentiary sentences back of him; and "Splinter" Mallory, thin,
leering, shifty And yet | 1 | Adventure stories |
He
closed his eyes and concentrated his thought upon her He had heard
that so people had communicated with one another and he himself had
had proof enough, if it were true that she was | 1 | Adventure stories |
Pound after pound
seemed to be lifting from his weary legs and cloud after cloud from
his dulled brain He would soon be able to go back now He felt a new
need for the | 1 | Adventure stories |
When he saw that it was
piled high with wood and coal ready to be lighted, he would have
braved an army to reach it Crossing the room, he thrust his candle
into the kindling | 1 | Adventure stories |
His arms, too, began to pain him as he had been unable
to relieve them at all from their awkward position The last fifty
feet were accomplished in an agony that left him almost | 1 | Adventure stories |
They moved down ever towards the blue
lake which blinked back at the sun like a blue-eyed babe Their rifles
pressed upon their shoulders like bars of lead; their heavy feet were
numb; their eyes | 1 | Adventure stories |
It looked like a toy As Stubbs stooped to adjust it,
Wilson saw one of the men dart from the line and disappear into the
open doorway of a house to the right Stubbs | 1 | Adventure stories |
He had told a deliberate lie
and was perpetrating a downright fraud, but he felt no conscientious
scruples over it It was only after he had exhausted every legitimate
method that he had resorted to | 1 | Adventure stories |
I am sure this time."
"Only a shadow There is a light breeze."
"I couldn't see anything but--it didn't _feel_ like a shadow, David."
"You felt it? Has the image----" he asked a bit anxiously.
"No--oh, | 1 | Adventure stories |
To others the sky
was blue, the sun warm, and the salt-laden winds came in from over the
sea with pungent keenness To others the waters were sprinkled with
joyous colors--the white sails of yachts, | 1 | Adventure stories |
The Priest spoke good English.
"Leave the image," he said quietly.
Sorez, his hand upon a thirty-two caliber revolver, laughed (even as
Quesada had laughed) and disappeared in the dark The next time he met
the | 1 | Adventure stories |
He shook off Sorez and, picking up the girl, started into
the small anteroom; but before he was out of sight the first of the
soldiers had sprung up the steps With an oath | 1 | Adventure stories |
It had lost something of its
harshness--something, too, of its decisiveness The girl interrupted,
"This is no time for explanations Come into the hut We must rest
first."
She led the way, keeping a tight grip | 1 | Adventure stories |
He had always
spoken of a man worth a million with a certain amount of awe and
doubt; and here lay ten, perhaps fifty, times that amount At the end
of forty years of sailing | 1 | Adventure stories |
Two of them supported Sorez The house opposite was empty, the
occupants having deserted it at the approach of the enemy It was a
rambling, story-and-a-half structure, somewhat elaborately furnished.
Wilson placed a guard at | 1 | Adventure stories |
After their imprisonment in Bogova and
while in hiding from Wilson he had supplied the girl with the best of
nurses and physicians Furthermore, in order to make what recompense
he could to her in | 1 | Adventure stories |
Wilson and Stubbs
followed after Otaballo, who appeared somewhat worried They entered
the palace, and at her request a guard led them into the privacy of a
small room--as it happened, the room which Wilson | 1 | Adventure stories |
It couldn't be that he had suspected Wilson and Jo of
theft, because, in the first place, he must have seen at a glance that
the safe was undisturbed; and in the second, that | 1 | Adventure stories |
Darner’s prohibition might
be founded upon wise precautions and a knowledge of the perils of the
place; for, as a matter of fact, though this fact was unknown to Pat,
the Falls are sufficiently dangerous | 1 | Adventure stories |
When he gets
any, it makes him simply insane He stays about here most of the time,
and in this place he can’t get a single drop Consequently he is a very
sensible, dignified, and | 1 | Adventure stories |
The shadow of the
forest beneath caught a peculiar leaden tinge from the smoke that now
surrounded everything, and in some places was so dark that it seemed as
though the fire might be smouldering | 1 | Adventure stories |
“Black Betsy”
was the name by which she was known A silvery voice, a truly humble and
grateful mind, a meek and quiet spirit, a winning demeanor, a smile that
always charmed every one | 1 | Adventure stories |
This
plan was nothing else than to follow the course of the brook It would
of course enlarge as it ran on It might lead into a larger stream, and
that stream would be sure | 1 | Adventure stories |
There rose the hill-slope
where his father’s house and out-houses had once stood; but now the
house and out-houses had all vanished, and over the surface of the
hill were spread the black traces of | 1 | Adventure stories |
That
path seemed to promise escape, and seemed to lead him forth from the
wilderness track to life and liberty.
He stood and looked at it long and carefully It ran across the brook,
and on | 1 | Adventure stories |
“Specs I mus hab gone clean mad an rabin
stracted Didn’t tink dar was so much clar fight in me Ain’t such a
rheumatic old nig, arter all Fight any drunken Ingin on de | 1 | Adventure stories |
But Bruce and the others, who had never seen the Indian before,
stood simply amazed, not knowing what to make of such a singular scene.
They had heard of the adventure in the woods | 1 | Adventure stories |
The channel
grew broader, and the waters grew more abundant, sometimes spreading
themselves out wide over a pebbly bottom, at other times collecting
into deep pools, which Phil preferred avoiding In spite of the
irregularities and | 1 | Adventure stories |
Had Solomon not
been speaking to the boys he could have resisted even this last throe of
despair; but as it was, his attention was for the moment distracted, and
he was taken by surprise | 1 | Adventure stories |
You can find him yerself
bether’n me, so ye can, if ye want to How can I find him! Sorra one of
me knows the way anywheres out of this; and I’m fairly broken-hearted,
so | 1 | Adventure stories |
Arrival of
Pat with startling Tidings.--A useless Search._
FOR a few moments the whole party stood, confounded by this new and
sudden turn which events had taken.
“He’s gone, anyhow,” said Pat, who was the first | 1 | Adventure stories |
But that was
not to be thought of except as a last resort At all hazards they
wished to keep the boat If they fled to the woods their boat would
be captured, and their | 1 | Adventure stories |
But this was impossible The land before his eyes was a land of
fire; its trees blackened by the fire, or still glowing red as they
quivered under its attack; and there was no | 1 | Adventure stories |
He was apprehensive that he might
come to a cataract, or to rapids This danger certainly did not seem
very imminent, or very probable, for the country was generally of too
level a character to | 1 | Adventure stories |
An now I undherstan it
all Out there is the say,” said Pat, turning and facing where he
supposed the sea to be “Up there on the lift is Partridge Island, where
ye hear the | 1 | Adventure stories |
How should he go back? Not
through the woods, for he could make but small advance through the dense
forest that now surrounded him; not up the stream, for how could his
strength bear him | 1 | Adventure stories |
Den I heerd she gone off
Boston way, an I come back yer, an den went to de Cadmy Well, I got a
mar’d darter out Loch Lomon way, an I come yer dis | 1 | Adventure stories |
O, you get out! Go way, now! Sakes
alive! Ye-e-e-e-p! Hi--ya-a-a-a-h! Hi-i-i-i-i-i--ya-a-a-a-a-a-a-a
a-a-a-a-a-a-a-h!”
And Solomon here burst forth in a breakdown so tremendous and so absurd,
that the boys first started back, and then all burst | 1 | Adventure stories |
"You're giving him credit for more cunning
than he deserves Take it from me, he just saw how careful I was of
those papers and made up his mind, on the spur of the | 1 | Adventure stories |
The "mister" which Glennie had imposed
upon them still rankled in their bosoms.
Up to that moment off Port-of-Spain there had been no "misters" on the
_Grampus_ The formality demanded by Glennie had been a | 1 | Adventure stories |
If Matt could drag him down and secure him he felt that, at
a later moment, the treacherous Celestial might be dealt with as his
evil deeds justified.
But the work the king of the | 1 | Adventure stories |
The next best thing is to
shift all the weight forward and throw the propeller out of water We
can do that if our forward anchor can find holding ground on the bottom
of the | 1 | Adventure stories |
Put 'er there!"
Matt, flushing under the compliment given him by the consul, allowed
his hand to be wrung cordially.
"Now," said Brigham, "look out of the windows at the beautiful palms
while I go through | 1 | Adventure stories |
The Gulf of Paria was
a great watery plain, over which the waters of the Orinoco spread
themselves before mingling with the sea.
The ensign, feeling that he was disliked, drew back into his shell | 1 | Adventure stories |
Dick, however, did
no more than grumble If Motor Matt thought it necessary to pull out
for the Amazon in such short order, then there was nothing more to be
said Matt knew what he | 1 | Adventure stories |
This six-shooter carried the day."
"And saved my life," added Matt "I'll not forget that, Mr Glennie."
A flush of pleasure ran through Glennie's face.
"Bosh!" he exclaimed "You'd have done the same for me, | 1 | Adventure stories |
King," said Glennie "What happened after that?"
Matt, attending to his steering and keeping an eye on the periscope,
told how he had lost consciousness for a few moments, had revived,
lashed the wheel, and | 1 | Adventure stories |
Move everything possible from aft If the anchor has taken hold,
a little pulling on the chain may help If this don't fill the bill,
then we'll pile rocks on the bow and force | 1 | Adventure stories |
With his life he might get the game into his own hands--with
death was the end of the game.
"All right," he said "You've got the bulge on me this time Just free
my hands, | 1 | Adventure stories |
By
Harrie Irving Hancock.
333--A Bid for Fortune; or, True as Steel By Fred Thorpe.
334--A Battle with Fate; or, The Baseball Mascot By Weldon J Cobb.
335--Three Brave Boys; or, Adventures | 1 | Adventure stories |
The Jap's eyes
continued to rest on the hat until he saw that Matt was watching him,
then the eyes turned away absently and lost their telltale gleam.
"Vat's der madder mit der feller?" muttered | 1 | Adventure stories |
Swerving aside he rushed at
the ladder, mounted swiftly, and disappeared through the hatch.
With a fierce effort Matt concentrated his wandering wits upon the
bomb Someway, somehow, he must reach the infernal machine and
extinguish | 1 | Adventure stories |
I don't
suppose that the Sons of the Rising Sun were at all pleased with this
information They are enthusiasts, and probably don't care a rap for
their own lives, or for the lives of | 1 | Adventure stories |
Read that."
The consul tucked a cablegram into Glennie's fingers It had come from
Belize, and was signed by the captain of the _Seminole_ Glennie read
it aloud:
"Motor Matt and Ensign John Henry Glennie, | 1 | Adventure stories |
Tolo
didn't have time to see the others of the Young Samurai between the
time he left La Guayra and the time he presented himself to me, in the
rôle of Ah Sin, on board | 1 | Adventure stories |
Half a dozen big canoes
filled with men shot out from the banks There were one or two firearms
among them, but these were discharged at too great a range for savage
marksmen, and they | 1 | Adventure stories |
"Ah'm thinking he's no' a'together a nigger The
scoondrel's a bit tae yellow."
They found the dago, lying on the main deck, panting and furious,
clothed only in a loin cloth, with half a dozen | 1 | Adventure stories |
Dey hat bombs,
und safages don't haf dose."
"The bombs weren't in sight."
A few minutes later Speake came up with the supper After the meal was
out of the way, Speake took Dick's place at | 1 | Adventure stories |
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