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"The Den's no mous the night," said Corp at last, in a low voice, and his unspoken fears spread to the womankind, so that Miss Ailie shuddered and Elspeth gripped Tommy with both hands and Gavinia whispered, "Let's away hame, we can come back in the daylight."
"Last night, as ever was," continued the old man, "'e went down to th' 'aunted cottage 't weren't no manner o' use tryin' to turn 'im, no, not if I'd gone down to 'im on my marrer-bones 'e were that set on it; so off he goes, 'bout sundown, to sleep in th' 'aunted cottage I knows, Jarge, 'cause I follered un, an' seen for myself; so now I'm a-goin' down to find 'is corp' "
So when Corp, rising out of the darkness, deftly cut her throat, she was not so angry as she should have been. "I'm so glad we are to play again, after all, Corp," she said; but he replied grandly, "Thou little kennest wha you're speaking to, my gentle jade." He gave a curious hitch to his breeches, but it only puzzled her.
Suddenly, at the open door, appeared a man whose shirt-sleeves showed very white against his other clothing which, like that of the rest, was of decent black. He addressed the assembly thus: "Gin ony o' ye want to see the corp, noo's yer time."
"And what sort of work do you do for them?" "They're the people who run the hydroponic farm. They're normal men, like you I mean, like you would be if you weren't swollen up and pale like the bodies that are thrown in the vats. "Old Beard knows; he's very wise. He calls the Masters 'Marscorp. I don't know why, but it seems that before I lost my memory I knew a language where corp meant body.
"I've noticed it this while back, though I didna ken I had noticed it, Gavinia. I wonder what can be the reason?" "It's because nobody cares," Gavinia replied sadly. Trust one woman to know another! "We a' care," said Corp, stoutly. "We're a' as nothing, Corp, when he doesna care. She's fond o' him, man." "Of course she is, in a wy. Whaur's the woman that could help it?"
My heart's wae, wae for that woman; I saw her face was like a corp when we went in first, though she put a fair front on to us. A woman in a hundred; a brave woman, few like her, let me tell you, M. Montaiglon, and heartbroken by that rat she's married on. I could greet to think on all her trials. You saw she was raised somewhat; you saw I have some influence in that quarter?"
Elspeth had to mind the pot, which Aaron Latta never missed, and Corp was supposed to light the fire by striking sparks from his knife, a trick which Tommy considered so easy that he refused to show how it was done.
Corp was shouting, gesticulating, impotent. "How can you stand so still?" he roared. For Tommy was standing quite still, like one not yet thoroughly awake. The boy's head was visible now and again as he was carried round in the seething water; when he came to the outer ring down that channel he must infallibly go, and every second or two he was in a wider circle.
His power was gone, his crew would not listen to another word against Mr. McLean. "Tommy thought Mr. McLean hated you!" said Elspeth to Miss Ailie. "It was queer you made sic a mistake!" said Corp to Tommy. "Oh, the tattie-doolie!" cried Gavinia. So they knew that Mr. McLean had only been speaking sarcastically; of a sudden they saw through and despised their captain.
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