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" 'Spect don't want no other home, missie. Heaven good enough." I stood watching him as he rubbed down the black horse, feeling surely that he and I would be friends. "Where is your home here, Darry?" "I got a place down there, little missie not fur." "When you have done that horse, will you show me your place? I want to see where you live."
Hinman showed us " "I protest, young man!" exclaimed the lawyer. "The letter," Darry went on calmly, "was to the effect that Mr. Stark had collected his own half of the twenty dollars, and that the collection of Mr. Hinman's half of the money seemed doubtful." "Now, now, Stark!" exclaimed the farmer, looking sharply at the lawyer.
"But we don't want to go to fighting on Sunday, if there's any way to avoid it," young Prescott urged, at which four of his chums nodded their heads approvingly. "I'm not looking for any fight, either," muttered Dave. "Yet it goes against the grain to halt just in order to let that gang slip by without seeing us." "There are five of us against your single vote, Darry," Dick reminded him.
I don't suspect any man here at the Naval Academy of anything intentionally and deliberately dishonorable." "Good, Darry!" cried several midshipmen. For a few minutes the talk grew fast and furious. Then some one looked at his watch and there was a prompt flight of visitors.
"Worth watching, and every officer and man visible on her looks and acts like a piece of the machinery," commented Major Wells, passing Prescott an extended field glass. "Want to take a look at her?" "Why, I'd know that tall officer on her bridge anywhere in the world if I had as good a view of him as I have now," uttered Dick delightedly. "Old Darry?" inquired Greg Holmes. "No one else.
"Let's go over and see what that means," proposed Tom. He jumped up, ready to sprint over to the clearing. "If you want advice," Dick offered, "I'd say to wait until the shooting is over. You might stop a stray bullet not intended for us." "But what can the shooting mean" wondered Greg. "When anyone is turning bullets loose," remarked Darry, "I'm not too inquisitive."
"Let us go on, farther into the woods," urged Belle, turning to Dr. Bentley. "I think not," replied the doctor dryly. "Since Prescott has been the only one to hold out the gracious hand, I believe we'll settle right down here, as a reward to Prescott and as a punishment to the others." "Hooray for punishment!" laughed Darry. "I can take a lot of it."
Bayliss, if you believe that you can do anything more, then the place for you is on your feet. I'll give you until I count five." Deliberately the farmer counted, but Bayliss remained on his knees. "Bayliss loses," announced the farmer. "Not that I believe he ever had much in the fighting line to lose, but he loses." "I'll wait five minutes for him," offered Darry.
I said, for Margaret kept silent. "And de oberseer, he say leastways he swore, he did, dat his will should be what is done on dis plantation, and he wouldn't have no such work. He say, dere's nobody to come togedder after it be dark, if it's two or t'ree, 'cept dey gets his leave, Mass' Ed'ards, he say; and dey won't get it." "But what did he do to Darry?"
"Nobody was riding with me." "Your cousin was there?" "No, ma'am." "Who then?" "I had Uncle Darry. I was only riding up and down the dell." "The coachman! And were you riding up and through the quarters all the afternoon?" "No, ma'am." "What were you doing the rest of the time?" "I was going about " I hesitated. "About where?" "Through the place there." "The quarters?
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