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Well Al I didn't wait to look twice but I called Corp. Evans and told him. So he says who did I think it was and I said it must be Simon. So he says "Well Keefe its up to 1 of us to go get him." So I said "Well Corp. I guess its my job." So he says "All right Keefe if you feel that way about it." So I says all right and I'll say Al that he give up his claims without a struggle.
Now you boys scatter and get your crawling suits and hoods and masks, and we'll be ready for business. "I can see that there'll be no monotony in our young lives to-night," observed Frank to Bart, as they obeyed instructions. "Not that you can notice," agreed Bart. "The corp has quite a little program marked out for us." "So it seems."
As he leapt ashore from the bark, the Dancing Shovel, he was received right loyally by Corp and other faithful adherents, of whom only two, and these of a sex to which his House was ever partial, were visible, owing to the gathering gloom. Corp of that Ilk sank on his knees at the water's edge, and kissing his royal master's hand said, fervently, "Welcome, my prince, once more to bonny Scotland!"
But in the middle o' my dream it comes ower me that I had better waken up to see what Gavinia's doing, and I open my een, and there she is, sitting up, hearkening avidly to my every word, and putting sly questions to me about the glove." "What glove?" Tommy asked coldly. "The glove in silk paper." "I never heard of it," said Tommy. Corp sighed.
Oh, agreeable change since last we were in this house! oh, happy picture of domestic bliss! oh but no, these are not the words; what we meant to say was, "Gavinia, you limmer, so you have got the better of that man of yours at last." How had she contrived it? We have seen her escorting the old lady to the Dovecot, Corp skulking behind.
Corp Shiach was a bare-footed colt of a boy, of ungainly build, with a nose so thick and turned up that it was a certificate of character, and his hands were covered with warts, which he had a trick of biting till they bled. The orange of the masons' trousers, the blue of the hearthstones, these are the most beautiful colors to be seen in Thrums, though of course Corp was unaware of it.
"Oh, if they are no use to you," Tommy said sweetly, "me and Corp is willing to buy them off you for threepence." Then Gav became a scorner of duplicity, but he had to consent to the bargain, and again Corp said to Tommy, "Oh, you crittur!" But he was sorry to lose a fellow-conspirator. "There's just the twa o' us now," he sighed. "Just twa!" cried Tommy. "What are you havering about, man?
"Oh," replied Thomas, "that's nothing. But I should like to shake Corp by the hand again." "And Aaron," said Elspeth. She was knitting stockings for Aaron at that moment. "And Gavinia," Tommy said, "and the Dominie." "And Ailie." And then came an awkward pause, for they were both thinking of that independent girl called Grizel. She was seldom discussed.
The helpless door, like the staring eyes of a dead person, seemed to be calling to them to shut it, and Tommy was about to steal forward for this purpose when Corp gripped him and whispered that the light had gone out. It was true, though Tommy disbelieved until they had returned to the east window to make sure. "There maun be folk in the hoose, Tommy!" "You saw it was toom.
Had they been able to speak they would have said "Tell Grizel" themselves. "And Mrs. Shiach's compliments," Corp remembered, "and she would be windy if you would carry the bairn at the christening." "I should love it, Corp! Have you decided on the name?" "Lang syne. Gin it were a lassie we were to call her Grizel " "Oh, how sweet of you!"
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