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...royal palace of Jeremy at King-town was an old hut open on all sides and with a roof of palm leaves supported on sticks about 16 feet apart. His court with pirates and shipwrecked negroes, the Mosquito nation emerged a composite people to be reckoned with by European fury and a half of racial intermixture or gorgets of gold to relieve their paint-streaked. But after a con-consisted of two elderly wives, a son, and three daughters. Yet the astonishing fact remained that this barbarian wielded great power on the Caribbean...
...from his own heart or from the rayless ceiling overhead makes little difference in the long run. He went out into the frost; presently he was joined by a wealthy citizen named Bernard of Quintaville and a canon from a neighboring church named Peter. These three built themselves a hut adjoining the leper hospital. Lepers he had loathed unspeakably. But perfect love had cast out loathing: it was on the road from Apulia. He jumped from his horse and embraced a leper. "He receives," said a Cardinal, "those whom God himself will not receive. ..." So he lived in hunger among...
Cyrus Hall McCormick used to go with his father, Robert, into a log hut on their Virginia farm and the two would work secretly for hours. The father was a Scotch-Irishman, quick with his hands. He had invented a hemp-brake, a cloyer-sheller, a bellows and a threshing machine that won him fame before he left the old country. He often stood pensively over a rusted wreck beside his Virginia barn, the wreck of a baffled dream. Cyrus too studied it. It was a reaper that would not reap. One day in 1831 (after his father...
BITTERN POINT?Virginia Macfadyen-A. & C. Boni ($2). We have but two fitful glimpses of the piratical, tongueless Turk of these pages. Both occur in a swamper's hut in the 18th Century Carolinas. We infer that he is shy a finger on his strangling hand, that his dagger has a permanent wave and that his ministrations upon the persons of five young women derive from Jack the Ripper. We infer, that is all. Yet that is ample to earn this Turk several graduate and honorary degrees in murdery. From the barest hints he becomes a lurking presence whose actuality...
First aid was administered to him at a nearby hut. His left arm and shoulder were strapped and bound to prevent straining the fracture. Solicitous hands bundled him into a heavy overcoat, buttoned it tightly across his chest, turned up the fur collar about his ears. His chauffeur drove him carefully to Market Harborough station. There he picked up the public telephone instrument with his free hand and called his secretary at York House, London: "I'll be back to dinner, and you'll see that there's very little the matter with...