Hazlehurst asked to look at the book; it was handed to him by Mr. Wyllys. He examined it very carefully, binding, title-page, and contents; Mr. Clapp watching him closely at the moment.
"Do you suspect the hand-writing?" asked the lawyer.
"Not in the least," replied Hazlehurst. "You have read this volume often I suppose," he added, turning to the sailor.
"Not I," was the reply; "I ain't given to reading in any shape; my shipmates have read that 'ere book oftener than I have."
"Did you carry it with you in all your voyages?"
"No; I left it ashore half the time."
"How long have you had it in your possession?"
"Indeed! that is singular; I should have said, Mr. Clapp," exclaimed Harry, suddenly facing the lawyer, "that only four years since, I read this very volume of the Spectator at Greatwood!"
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him: ‘I think,’ he said, ‘we have had enough of leaders;
to the supply of food in the past autumn and at the present
which was made by the too-often unanswered speeches of
of the Eurasian. She turned and faced him, threw up both
further at this time except to say that the descendants
protection, it was with honesty of purpose and in single-mindedness
small dread. The next day they entered into a consultation
the steps again, finding himself now nearly up to his armpits
of the celebrated missionary, Williams, who, after spending
For three weeks Hanson had remained. During this time he
clear judgment, and prompt decision; the tenacity with