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Once as he peered out, a disreputable looking cur snapped at his legs. First, the lad coaxed the animal, then tried to drive him away, finally administering a kick that sent the dog away howling. "I've got revenge on one of the gang anyway," he laughed. "But it's not much of a revenge, at that. I wonder if they are going to bring me anything to eat.
"I reckon," said the other, sententiously, "for it's Johnson's knowledge of the country and the hoss-stealers that are in with Bob's gang of road agents that made it easy for him to buy up and win over Bob's friends here, so that they'd help to trap him." "It's pretty rough on Bob to be sold out in that way," said the second speaker, sympathizingly.
And by that time the gang were joining in and sheeting flat the topsails with a great swing. I don't suppose that Gloucester Harbor will ever again look as beautiful to me as it did that morning when we sailed out. Forty sail of seiners leaving within two hours, and to see them going to see them one after another loose sails and up with them, break out anchors, pay off, and away!
"Must have been built from the wreckage of a house," said Lucile. "Yes, or a boat." "A boat? Yes, look; there it is out there, quite a large one. It's stranded on the sandbar and half broken up." The girls paused in consternation. It seemed they were hedged in on all sides by perils. To go back was impossible. To go forward was to throw themselves upon the mercies of a gang of rough seamen.
When a big barge heaped high with coal came alongside and was made fast, we began to doubt the assurances given us, that the coal would be put in by outside labor. A tug hove in sight shortly afterward that caused our gloomy faces to light up with gladness, for it carried a gang of negroes. The tug made fast to the barge, and its living cargo was soon hard at work filling the ship's bunkers.
"Shall we give up the trail and take him over to Elkhead?" "An' break the heart of the ol' man?" "Buck is one of the gang, that's certain." "Get Silent an' there won't be no gang left." "But we caught this chap in red blood " "He ain't very old, Tex. Maybe he could change. I think he ain't been playin' Silent's game any too long." "We can't let him go. It isn't in reason to do that."
How mad and how miserable that poor girl was made by her own family, I did not know till months afterward, and then I had the terrible story from her own lips. It seems that when her father and his gang returned from pursuing me, as they did a little way up the road towards Belvidere, they found her almost frantic.
Steadily the time of high water approached. "Saw the sole pieces!" finally rang out the order. That was a thing that must be done by two gangs, one on each side, and evenly, too. If one gang got ahead of the other, they must stop and let the second catch up. "Zip zip zip," came the shrill singing tone of the saws. Was everything all right?
Wharton tipped back in his chair and once more let his eye wander over the boy's face; then he wheeled abruptly around to his desk, opened a drawer, and took out a yellow card across which he scrawled a line with his fountain pen. "You may begin work to-morrow morning," he remarked curtly. "If it is pleasant, Stevens will be cutting the further meadow with a gang of men.
"It seems to me I could spend a month or two in this province very satisfactorily, and we'll go down to Victoria together, as soon as you have carried out this timber-cutting contract." They talked of other matters, while now and then men from the railroad gang dropped in and made themselves pleasant to the stranger.
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