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"I'm in life for the loot of it, Rainey," Lund declared. "Food an' drink to tickle my tongue an' fill my belly, the woman I happen to want, an' bein' able to buy ennything I set my fancy on. The answer to that is Gold. With it you can buy most enny thing. Not all wimmen, I'll grant you that. Not the kind of woman I'd want for a steady mate.
We ran by Gibraltar wi' oot bein' able to signal. An' til we came to the Dardanelles and had to wait to get our permit to pass, we never were within hail o' aught. At first I inclined to slack off sail and beat about till the fog was lifted. But whiles, I thocht that if the Deil was minded to get us into the Black Sea quick, he was like to do it whether we would or no.
"This is the young lady I told you about, and of course she is with us. Only talk low, as the steward is in the stateroom yonder." "Yes sir," using a hoarse whisper, and fastening his gaze on me. "It's all right, sir." "They are with us! How many?" "Eight sure from my watch, sir. Harwood is in the fore-top and couldn't be seen, but I'll answer for his bein' all right.
"Arter a while I begun to feel a little queer; things got foggy in my upper works, an' I remembers, faint-like, of signin' a paper; then I remembers bein' in a small boat; an' then I remembers nothin' until I heard the mate's whistle pipin' all hands on deck.
"I couldn't see nor hear anything of the old hooker and I just drifted without knowin' where I was goin' and not carin' much nuther, bein' wet to the hide an' tired out with bailin' an' just ready to flop down an' quit.
And you will always find a loss of flesh to put it economikly, and then you must understand it, bein a housekeeper Whativer the Disease, its form or essence, Expinditure goes on, and income lessens.
"I think I can git a night job next week; one of the market-men comes in from the country ever' night to git a early start next morning an' he ast me if I'd sleep in his wagon from three to six an' keep his vegetables from bein' stole. That 'ud gimme time to git home an' git breakfast, an' be down to the fact'ry by seven."
An' don't you never let me hear you say another word about your bein' a disappointment. Jerry an' Ned, indeed! I wonder if you think a dozen Jerrys an' Neds could do what you've done! An' no matter what they done, they couldn't have done a bigger, splendider thing than you've done in triumphating over your blindness the way you've done, nor one that would make your father prouder of you!
"Oh, girlie, how you frightened me!" cried the woman, divided between tears and smiles. "I woke up, Dave, an' found her gone; an' bein' kind o' bewildered, I couldn't understand it!" She clung to his hand, while he looked tenderly down into her face. "Poor little woman!" he murmured, "you've had a bad turn ag'in, Lidey tells me. Better now, eh?"
The Duke looked at him indulgently. "I took it on myself to do it. I reckoned you might need the extra time, seein' that they was tryin' to spring a trap on you." He took the cigar that the Duke offered him in lieu of praise. "Bein' sure of that much time if you'll see to it that they're regular about the call!" Mr. Cobb cocked inquiring eye at the old man.
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