ACKLAND, VALENTINE.

Whether a dove or seagull, by Sylvia Townsend Warner & Valentine Ackland.

© 27Oct33; A66819. Sylvia Townsend Warner & Valentine Ackland (A); 26May61; R276444.

ACKLAND, VALENTINE.

Whether a dove or seagull, by Sylvia Townsend Warner & Valentine Ackland.

© 27Oct33; A66819. Sylvia Townsend Warner & Valentine Ackland (A); 26May61; R276444.

His party were about to sit down to breakfast, and he asked me to join them: so we passed into the dining-room at the forward end of the car, where I was introduced to "My son," "Lord Ralles," and "Captain Ackland."

Lord Ralles was a little, well-built chap, not half so English as Albert Cullen, quick in manner and thought, being in this the opposite of his brother Captain Ackland, who was heavy enough to rock-ballast a roadbed.

" I don't think Miss Cullen liked Lord Ralles's comments on American courage any better than I did, for she saidyou take Lord Ralles and Captain Ackland into the service of the K. & A., Mr. Gordon, as a special guard?" "The K. & A. has never had a robbery yet, Miss Cullen," I replied, "and I don't think that it ever will have.

In either case he had lied, and Lord Ralles and Captain Ackland had backed him up in it.

Sure enough there were Mr. Cullen, Albert, and Captain Ackland.

All that day we lay at Flagstaff, and after a good sleep, as there was no use keeping the party cooped up in their car, I drummed up some ponies and took the Cullens and Ackland over to the Indian cliff-dwellings.

Not having time, I was on the point of saying "No," when the door of 218, which lay about two hundred yards away, flew open, and out came Mr. Cullen, Fred, Albert, Lord Ralles, and Captain Ackland, all with rifles.

" "But I didn't walk with Lord Ralles," she cried, "The only person I walked with was Captain Ackland.

Captain Ackland is going to marry a niece of Massy Dawson.