If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

They greeted the news angrily, as though they had been cheated of purpose.

With every leaping stride of the horse beneath him he crossed one more patch of earth that had been his, that he would never see again.

He had been carrying an Enfield rifle and a holstered navy cap-and-ball pistol.

But the luck that had been running their way left him.

His shout had been taken up and repeated.

A sizable supply of powder had been touched off.

The worst part had been the waiting ; ;

The war captain had been badly wounded and was fighting to hold his seat.

And one had been too many.

That afternoon when they had pulled up in front of the broken-down ranch house, his hopes had been high.

The place had been cheap -- just the little he had left after Amelia's burial -- and it would serve its purpose.

I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.

Although I had been inside it I had not yet seen it functioning.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.

He had been one of the original Night Riders, one who had escaped the trial.

Then the vein had petered out and the whole project had been abandoned.

Born in Rome of a family from Gubbio in Umbria who had come to Rome during the pontificate of Pope Innocent IX, he graduated from the Collegio Romano and followed a conventional cursus honorum, following his uncle Girolamo Pamphilj as auditor of the Rota, and like him, attaining the dignity of Cardinal-Priest of Sant ' Eusebio, in 1629.

In spite of the company's attempts to claim that the tank had been blown up by anarchists ( because some of the alcohol produced was to be used in making munitions ), a court-appointed auditor found USIA responsible after three years of hearings.

He had served in the Union Army in Missouri during the American Civil War, and had been elected as city auditor of St. Louis, Missouri.

The party ’ s first auditor Gustaf Ekström was a Waffen-SS veteran and had been a member of the national socialist party Svensk Socialistisk Samling in the 1940s.

Each Bayan and Balangay had its own set of elected officials: Pangulo ( president ); Kalihim ( secretary ); Tagausig ( fiscal ); Tagaingat-yaman ( treasurer ); Pangalawang Pangulo ( vice president ); Pangalawang Kalihim ( vice secretary ); mga kasanguni ( councilors ); Mabalasig ( terrible brother ); Taliba ( guard ); Maniningil ( collector / auditor ); Tagapamahala ng Basahan ng Bayan ( custodian of the People ’ s Library ); Tagapangasiwa ( administrator ); Manunulat ( clerk ); Tagatulong sa Pagsulat ( assistant clerk ); Tagalaan ( warden ); and Tagalibot ( patroller ).

In Liverpool, the district auditor had charged the Militant-led 49 Liverpool city councillors £ 106, 000.

The auditor and the commission then went to court and had the contracts declared illegal ( appeals all the way up to the House of Lords failed ); the five banks involved lost millions of pounds.

Mildmay's older brother Sir Thomas ( d. 1566 ), was an auditor of the Court of Augmentation ( which had been established in 1537 for controlling the property taken by the Crown from the monasteries ), and was the grandfather of Thomas ( d. 1626 ), who was created a baronet in 1611, and of Henry ( d. 1654 ), who was knighted.

In the late period represented by Shakespeare's known collaborations with Fletcher in Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen, his style had become so involved that it is difficult for an auditor or even a reader to catch the meanings of many passages on a quick hearing or a first read, so Theobald might have found it necessary to alter the text in a way that made Shakespeare's voice unrecognizable.

California had a $ 95 million contract with Oracle Corporation that was found to be unnecessary and overpriced by the state auditor.

The Liberals said that it would have duplicated the auditor general's work, while the opposition noted that Caplan had earlier suggested that the independent review had been underway.

When Hess asked if a certain deduction he had claimed was right, his auditor reportedly replied, " It doesn't matter if it's right ; what matters is the law.

The office of Inspector General had been created as an auditor who provided annual reports to the Council of Defence.

An independent auditor specializing in non-profits reported for 2010 the church had an annual income of over $ 14. 3 million ( US ).

Ong discussed this with the accountant general and the auditor general and eventually conceded that the government only had to declare all of its properties, a list which took a few months to produce.

As Columbia had not yet admitted a woman graduate student, she was admitted only as an " auditor.

Meantime the calumnies spread by the enemies of Zumárraga and the partisans of the first auditor had shaken the confidence of the Spanish Court, and he set sail in May 1532 under orders to return to Spain.

While the E-Meter is an interesting investigation instrument and has played its part in research, it is not today used by the auditor ... As we long ago suspected, the intervention of a mechanical gadget between the auditor and the preclear had a tendency to depersonalize the session ..."

He had become an official of the Papal Court in 1784, serving in various administrative offices ( votante di segnatura ; auditor of the Rota for Rome ) for the next 14 years in Rome, where he was known as Monsignore Ubique on account of his taste for travelling and cultivating interesting people.

Hatch selected former state auditor Judi Dutcher ( who had left the Republican party in 2000 ) as his lieutenant governor candidate, and went on to win the September primary.

His plans and dreams had revolved around her so much and for so long that now he felt as if he had nothing.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

And, for the sake of Julia and Susan, it had to be tried.

Hell, they were fightin' each other so hard they had no time for anyone else.

I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.

For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

He had done time for the theft.

That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.

She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.

Never, he'd once told Joyce, had he encountered any man or situation that called for a gun.

A wildcatter had to be prepared for almost any emergency.

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

Tom had been laying for Aaron McBride for a long time, just waiting to catch him out of line.

He had a legitimate reason for wearing it.

Hank had gathered wood for a cookfire, and his wife was busy at it now.