Arthur Somers Roche

Name: The Millionth Chance — Chapter 12
Author: Arthur Somers Roche

The Millionth Chance — Chapter 12 (1916)

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“The Millionth Chance — Chapter 12”, published in 1916, is a work by Arthur Somers Roche. It explores elements such as Minot, Gilman and thanks.

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Arthur Somers Roche, The Millionth Chance — Chapter 12 (1916)

“ If you were English, and a man, the Victoria Cross would be yours, Miss Gilman. From what you have told me, I can guess the rest. You have risked a great deal to keep your uncle’s pledge. You have come in the night. I’m not much of a speech-maker, Miss Gilman. I can only tell you, once again, that England thanks you—and your uncle, too. I have no doubt that he could have sold this envelope to our enemies for a fortune. He gets nothing from England save England’s thanks. ”

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Arthur Somers Roche, The Millionth Chance — Chapter 12 (1916)

“ Disarmed, cowed, beaten, Minot and Ravenell stood in a corner of the cabin, while Carey gave it a last glance.
“Haven’t forgotten anything,” he said as coolly as if our subduing of the Greenham men had been an every-day affair. “Come on, Miss Gilman, and you, Wrenham.”
“What about them?” I asked, pointing at Minot and his burly partner.
Carey laughed.
“According to what you tell me, these gentlemen may have been implicated in Major Penrose’s death. In that case, they won’t get far, eh? In fact, they’ll hardly dare run away. ”

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Arthur Somers Roche, The Millionth Chance — Chapter 12 (1916)

“ England owes you her thanks, too.”
He held out his hand and I took it, I liked this tall, grave man.
“You haven’t time for thanks—for any thing,” cried Miss Gilman. “They know now—they must be certain. If they don’t dare follow, they’ll arouse the hotel—there’s the sheriff there—if they charged you with my uncle’s murder.”
“Awkward, eh?” His lips tightened. “But there’s no danger, Miss Gilman.”
“No danger? But they know! They must know now. The countryside will be on the lookout for a stranger, any stranger, and if you’re arrested what good will the plans be to you—and England? ”

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Arthur Somers Roche, The Millionth Chance — Chapter 12 (1916)

“ I laughed. “What man—and a woman—have done, they can do again. But I rather think they’ve had enough. Even though they can trace us, I hardly think they’ll want to. Got your wind?”
“I’m all right,” she replied. “But you—I’ve not even asked if you were hurt.”
“I’m not,” I told her.
My head still rang from the deflected blow of Minot’s revolver, but I saw no reason why I should excite her alarm over a trifle, sweet though such alarm would be to me.
“Where now?” I asked her.
For answer she turned off the ice and up the bank of the lake, not very steep here. ”

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Arthur Somers Roche, The Millionth Chance — Chapter 12 (1916)

“ Having risked so much, having dared so much at a time when most girls of her age would be stricken with shock, she did not want anything to delay his departure. Even his thanks, the thanks of England, were unwelcome until what she had set out to do was done. ”

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Arthur Somers Roche, The Millionth Chance — Chapter 12 (1916)

“ And England needs every man she can get. So I won’t do what I’d like to do.”
Very calmly he said it all, and yet, had I been Ravenell or Minot I would have felt that I had been very near to death that moment. But Carey shrugged his shoulders. He gently urged Miss Gilman from the cabin and followed me out. He pointed to a pile of cordwood near the door.
“If we pile that against it they’ll not remove it soon. The only tools inside are ordinary kitchen knives. Will you help me?” ”

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Arthur Somers Roche, The Millionth Chance — Chapter 12 (1916)

“ Were it not for the fact that I am on neutral soil—even that wouldn’t stop me, I think, were it not that even in times of war there might be some way of stopping me after I reach Canada. And I can’t be stopped. It wouldn’t be enough to give the plans you’ve tried so hard to get to some one else in the service. ”

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Arthur Somers Roche, The Millionth Chance — Chapter 12 (1916)

“ In ten minutes we had effectually blocked the door, which opened outward, from the assaults of the two Greenham men. Then we started for the lake. We reached the boat-house where his Bleriot was hidden. He unlocked the door and I helped him place planks from the door to the ice. Then we wheeled the air-craft out upon the ice. He tinkered with the engine a moment, then donned a helmet and life-belt which he had taken from a box behind his seat. He turned to us.
“Can’t say much, you know. Not a speech-maker, as you know.” ”

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Arthur Somers Roche, The Millionth Chance — Chapter 12 (1916)

“ I assured her. “Why, England isn’t at war with us and never will be. But aside from that—why, it’s ab surd! I—well, it’s just too nonsensical an idea to have occurred to me. You—you aren’t the type of woman, Miss Gilman, that betrays her country.”
“You know a great deal about women, being an author, don’t you, Mr. ”

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