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The detachment, two hundred in number, in three small vessels, set sail accordingly from Brill for Flushing; and a wild crew they were, of reckless adventurers under command of the bold Treslong. The expedition seemed a fierce but whimsical masquerade.
The hits for Brill had evidently come to an end, and the side retired with seven runs to its credit. "Now, Tom, hold them down if you possibly can," said Bob, as his team took the field. "I'll do my level best, Bob," was the reply. With the score five to seven against them, Roxley put in a pinch,hitter by the name of Bixby.
He had taken no time to aim, and his bullets went wild. Brill laughed in mockery, covered him deliberately with his rifle, and just as deliberately raised the barrel and fired into the air. The distance was scarce a hundred yards. Phil could not doubt that his former friend had purposely spared his life. The boy's rifle dropped from his shoulder. "Brill wouldn't shoot at me!
Then as the servant at last came up, and sniffed at a brill with that dissatisfied pout which buyers assume in the hope of getting what they want at a lower price, La Normande continued: "Just feel the weight of that, now," and so saying she laid the brill, wrapped in a sheet of thick yellow paper, on the woman's open palm.
"Where did you get that?" demanded the youth. "Never mind where I got it. Isn't it yours?" "Yes." "Ha! Do you hear that, Doctor Wallington?" cried Abner Sharp in triumph. "He admits the outfit is his!" "So I see," said the president of Brill, and if anything his face grew a trifle more stern. "Then you admit your guilt, Rover?" he questioned. "What! That I defaced the photograph?" "Yes."
Carson did his best, but with two strikes called on the batter, there came a neat little one-base hit, and, amid a wild cheering and a grand tooting of horns and sounding of rattles, Frank slid in to the home plate. "Hurrah! hurrah! that makes the score eight to seven!" "Keep it up, boys! You've got 'em going." But that was the end of the run making for Brill.
"I didn't get my brill after all, Tom," said Aleck, as the sail filled out and the boat sped along over the little dancing waves. "Never mind the flat fish, Master Aleck; we'll pick up a few bass as we go along through the race, and they'll be fresher than his brill." "No, Tom," said Aleck, frowning; "no fishing to-day. I want to get back and have a proper wash and change my shirt and collar."
Since he had returned to Brill, she had asked that he either call on her or write to her at least once a week. Tom preferred a visit to letter-writing, and as Sam was usually ready to go to Hope to see Grace whenever the opportunity afforded, the brothers usually took the trip together, as in the present instance.
Tiny waves fringing the sea with foam, broke on the beach with a faint noise, and some Normandy boats, hauled up on the shingle, lay on their sides with the sun shining on their tarred planks; a few fishermen were getting them ready to go out with the evening tide. A sailor came up with some fish to sell, and Jeanne bought a brill that she insisted on carrying home herself.
Davison had been meantime doing his best to prepare the way in the Netherlands for the reception of the English administration. What man could do, without money and without authority, he had done. The governors for Flushing and the Brill, Sir Philip Sidney and Sir Thomas Cecil, eldest son of Lord Burghley, had been appointed, but had not arrived.
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