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He was determined he would be ready for it. So he kept one hand in his coat pocket, where he carried his gun, and tried with the other hand to cast adrift the lashings that held the chest to the bunk posts. It was a two-hand job, and he made slow work of it. But he wouldn't call one of his tradesmen to help him that would have left a door unguarded, you see.
"I think we'd better leave him some grub, too. It wouldn't be right to just turn him adrift here alone." "What, after he kicked you like that?" inquired Jack. "Yes," Tom replied. "A Boy Scout never holds a grudge." "Good for you, Tom!" cried Jack, extending his hand to meet Tom's in a hearty grip. "Those sentiments make me glad that you are a member of the Beaver Patrol.
"Yes; I lied, Lawler. The day we met in Willets you remember? Well, I loved you from that moment, Lawler. You looked so big and fine and strong. I just couldn't help it. I did overhear Gary Warden telling those two men to cut the fence; and I didn't want them to set all those cattle adrift. But I didn't intend to come here.
The sail being bent, it was loosed and set, close-reefed; after which the disabled ship not only steered more easily, but also became more steady; all further danger, too, of being pooped was at an end. The spare spars were next cast adrift, and preparations made for getting new topmasts on end as soon as the weather should moderate sufficiently; and thus passed that eventful day.
A large boat arrived to take us and our baggage ashore. We were cast adrift in the open sea on account of a doubtful shoal. We had eight miles to row before we could reach Goa. Fortunately there was no storm. We rowed a mile and a half of open sea, five miles of bay, and one and a half of winding river, and at last landed on a little stone pier jutting a few yards into the water.
A storm was bad enough when they had a snug tent to shelter them, but in their present plight, adrift on the water in pitch darkness, there was no telling what disaster might happen. "I wish I was home," said Nugget. "I'm awfully afraid of thunder and lightning." No one laughed at this candid confession. The occasion was too serious for mirth. "I hardly know what would be best to do," began Ned.
"She declined to take it at all," said Cupid, with a sigh. "She demanded that I should tell her everything on penalty of losing her and I lost her. She left me a little over a thousand years ago, and my mother for the same reason sent me adrift fifteen hundred or more years ago. That is why I am eking out a living running an elevator," he added, sadly. "Still, I'm happy here.
And then, if a boy does show talent in school, do they help him up in life? Not they; when he has just learnt enough to whet his appetite for more, they turn him adrift again, to sink and drudge to do his duty, as they call it, in that state of life to which society and the devil have called him." "But there are innumerable stories of great Englishmen who have risen from the lowest ranks."
For some time the two wanderers stood contemplating the sight in silence, and when at length they spoke it was in low, sad tones. "Poor, poor fellow," said Mr Luke, "he must have been shipwrecked, like ourselves, and cast adrift in the boat. But I wonder that he is alone; one would expect that some of his comrades must have got into the boat along with him."
Every year that passed tended to emphasize the fact that modern conditions were cutting Peking more and more adrift from the real centres of power the economic centres which, with the single exception of Tientsin, lie from 800 to 1,500 miles away.
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