Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 24
ir insuch a miserly way. He began to take considerable interest in thework on the fortification, after all. As the brown-stone wall rose, he watched the young collegianswheeling barrows filled with material, and helpingso generously, and he found much pleasure in thesight. Sometimes he would sigh… … A BIRD S-EYE VIEW OF GOVERNOR S ISLAND. all. He did nt desire to be shot. He was onlytwenty-five. He preferred to live to a green oldage and then die quietly in his bed. But he hadbeen arrested as a spy, and things had looked sus-picious when a drawing of the place was found uponhim and he could nt…
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