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Steam is up, and I could do it as easy as not;" and Frank put his hand on the throttle-valve, as if daring Gus to give the word. "Fire up and make her hum!" laughed Gus, quoting Bill's frequent order to his mate, but with no idea of being obeyed. "All right; I'll just roll her up to the switch and back again.
The next day everyone was talking of Bill's bluffing the church people, and there was much quiet chuckling over the discomfiture of Robbie Muir and his party. The Pilot was equally distressed and bewildered, for Bill's conduct, so very unusual, had only one explanation the usual one for any folly in that country. "I wish he had waited till after the meeting to go to Latour's.
"Very well, dear, I'll wait." "No, you needn't, I'll tell you now," and Patty suddenly drew away from Bill's arm and faced him bravely. "I'm a coward, that's what I am! And I cried because, because I can't say what you want me to, and and I HATE to hurt your feelings, because I LIKE you so much." "Patty! do you KNOW what you're talking about?" "Yes, I do!
And I was rebuked because I was going to offer Mrs. I must cut dainty slices of thin bread-and-butter, use Sister's own china ware, and serve the whole spread on a tray with a cloth. All of which was typical of Sister, who from that day treated Bill's wife with true tenderness; and Bill's wife became one of Sister's most enthusiastic adorers.
"I never saw a face so like my old pard's," the stranger was saying to Ben. "And you know, Ben, I often wonder if some day I won't hear something from Bill's family. There was a wee boy, but what others, if any, I don't know. The day of the wreck I saw a lad that did a brave deed, and ever since I've been wondering if he might be Bill's boy he looked so like him."
"Come, that's good," said the cooper, cheerfully. "We ain't so bad off as we might be, you see, Rachel." "Very likely the bill's bad," she said, with the air of one who rather hoped it was. "Now, Rachel, what's the use of anticipating evil?" said Mrs. Harding. "You see you're wrong, for here's Jack with the flour." The family sat down to supper. "You haven't told us," said Mrs.
"He's mad right enough," agreed another seaman comfortably, while from Bill's bunk came the usual snarl of "bloomin' fool." Dan turned over on his side and put his pipe away. "He don't do any harm, anyhow," he said, pulling up his blanket. "There's worse than him." "Plenty, poor devil," agreed the first speaker, as he too prepared for the afternoon's sleep.
The trails which the other three were to hunt led off, one from the other Dick's, Bill's and then the Big Hill trail, with tilts at the juncture points and along them in a similar manner to the arrangement of Ed's, and each trail covering about the same number of miles as his.
Sometimes Sunshine Bill's father was laid up with illness, and sometimes his mother was so; and occasionally he and his brothers and sisters were sick also.
He remembered Bill's scoffing words. Could it be true of Laura? Was she false to him? The possibility of such a thing had never entered his head before, but now he was tortured with the agonies and doubts of insensate, unreasoning jealousy. Maybe she had found it harder than she anticipated.
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