THREE:"And do you care for him, too?" he asked, looking her straight in the eyes. It was a very calm question, put��he realized it with exasperation��as a father might have put it.

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THREE:That all fitted in, Dick asserted.

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THREE:But he pleaded entire ignorance, and the others were at considerable pains to enlighten him.

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THREE:The campaign in Flanders opened in April. The British faithfully furnished their stipulated number of men (twenty-eight thousand), but both Austria and Holland had most disgracefully failed. Holland was to send fifty thousand into the field, and keep the other ten thousand in her garrisons; but she had sent less than half that number, and Austria only eight squadrons. The French had a fine army of seventy-five thousand men under the able general, Marshal Saxe; and the King of France and the Dauphin had come to witness the conflict, which gave a wonderful degree of spirit to their troops. On the part of the Allies, the Duke of Cumberland was chief in command, but, from his youth, he was not able to set himself free from the assumptions of the Austrian general, old Marshal K?nigsegg, and the Dutch general, the Prince of Waldeck. As it was, to march against the French before Tournay was to rush into a certain contest with the whole French army of nearly eighty thousand men, whilst the Allies could have only about fifty thousand. Saxe made the ablest arrangements for the coming fight. He left fifteen thousand infantry to blockade Tournay, drew up his army in a very strong position a few miles in advance, and strengthened it by various works.��There��s the amphibian,�� Dick muttered. ��Stranded��cracked up, maybe. But��if we could get down and land, we could use her, two of us could, to go to the swamp and see what��s there��before anybody else gets to the life preserver the jewels must have been tied to.��

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