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It was Dan the stable boy; and, as Rodman asked him, almost angrily, how he dared follow him without orders, and what he was spying out his movements for, he replied humbly: "I ain't a-spying on you, Mister Rod, and I only followed you to tell you supper was ready, 'cause I thought maybe you didn't know it." "Well, I didn't and it makes no difference whether I did or not," said Rod.
"Now, I know well that the Commissioners have had you before them; they are tiresome busybodies. Walsingham started all that and set them a-spying and a-defending of my person and the rest of it; but they are loyal folk, and I suppose they asked you where you had been and with whom you had stayed, and so on?" "They did, your Grace." "And you would not tell them, I suppose?"
"'I allow it would be better for you to move on. "'And I allow, says I, 'it would be better for you to attend to your own affairs. "'Look here, says he, 'I hear as you have been a-spying about them waggons. "'Then, says I, 'whosoever told you that, is an all-fired liar, and you tell him so from me. "I had got my hand on the butt of my Colt, and the fellow weakened.
On reaching home, his merry, vivacious, affectionate wife flew towards him, and dried the traces of the bitter tears with her loving kisses. "Ah, ha! so you were at Madaras, eh?" said Flora, roguishly; "a little bird whispered me that you would go a-spying. Well, what have you discovered?" "That you are right," said Rudolf, tenderly "women are not weak." "Then there is peace between us.
If you ladies could climb up one o' them big pines, you'd see the line of forts and trenches in a half-moon from the Chain Bridge at Georgetown to Alexandria, and you'd see the seminary in its pretty park, and, belike, Gineral McClellan in the chapel cupola, a-spying through his spy-glass what deviltry them rebel batteries is hatching on the hill over yonder." "Are the rebels there?" "Yes'm.
"As you did not say," he growled; after which a silence came and sat between us, I holding the open letter in my hand and he staring gloomily at the back of it. When the silence grew portentous I told him of my design to go a-spying. He looked me in the eye and his smile was not pleasant to see. "You are lying most clumsily, Jack; or at best you are telling me but half the truth.
"How can any one earn a respectable honest living by being a nark?" asked Mr. Kemp contemptuously. "And more than that, it's one of the best men that ever breathed that you are a-spying on. I'll have you know that he's a friend of mine. That is to say he's done things for me that I ain't likely to forget. There's nothing I won't do for him, if the chance comes my way.
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