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Haley was too overborne by the heat and rush of the busy week to adventure the heat and dust of the road, and to sustain the somewhat strenuous discourse of the Reverend Harper Freeman, to whose flock the Haleys belonged. This, however, was not Mrs. Haley's invariable custom.
"Well, boys," said Haley, "look alive now; we must lose no time." "Not a bit of him, Mas'r!" said Sam, putting Haley's rein in his hand, and holding his stirrup, while Andy was untying the other two horses. The instant Haley touched the saddle, the mettlesome creature bounded from the earth with a sudden spring, that threw his master sprawling, some feet off, on the soft, dry turf.
Parker sent her among the gaily-dressed little girls in Miss Haley's class; but Mr. Holbrook detained Tip. "Edward, you intend to come to Sabbath school regularly, don't you?" "Yes, sir." "Then I think we must leave your place in the mission seat to be filled by some other boy, and you may come forward to my class."
Appledore, Haley's, Cedar, Star, and Londoner's form almost a semi-circle, or horse-shoe, nearly a mile in width with the tips turned toward the west. Duck Island lies a mile-and-a-half to the north of this group, and White Island with it's light-house about the same distance to the south-east. They are mostly bare rocks, like mountain tops rising above the water.
But Haley's shack was too near Pine Flat, and now with a reward probably offered, he feared the Garcias greasers, father and son, not to be trusted. The wisest course was to lie low and keep to himself, anyway till he knew more. So he tracked across the country from landmark to landmark, a cave, an abandoned tunnel, the shell of a ruined cabin.
Bruce Gordon reached the outskirts of the miserable business section, noticing that a couple of the shops were still open. It had probably been years since any had dared risk it after the sun went down. And the slow, doubtful respect on the faces of the citizens as they nodded to him was even more proof that Haley's system was working. Gordon nodded to a couple, and they grinned faintly at him.
But who is Cameron?" he continued to the Methodist minister at his side. "He is Haley's hired man, I believe, and that first girl is Haley's daughter." "Poor thing!" echoed Mrs. Freeman, a kindly smile on her motherly face. "But she has a good heart has poor Mandy." "But why 'poor'?" enquired the M.P.P. "Oh, well," answered Mrs.
Morgan, that you have been greatly deceived in him." "I suspect that I have been deceived," said Mr. Morgan, gravely. "It is only fair, however, Captain Haley, to hear both sides, and I will therefore summon the boy himself to answer your charge. Robert!" At the summons, to Captain Haley's equal surprise and dismay, Robert stepped from the closet in which he had been concealed.
He strode crashingly down the hillside in his high boots, corduroys, and canvas jacket, his face flushed with exercise and, of course, broadly smiling. Janice liked the civil engineer immensely. He lacked Nelson Haley's solid character and thoughtfulness; but he always had a fund of enthusiasm on tap.
In some way the ne'er-do-well was connected in her mind with another train of thought that, until now, had had "the right of way" in her inner consciousness. What had Jack Besmith to do with Nelson Haley's troubles? Janice Day was puzzled. Janice Day had no intention of avoiding what seemed, finally, to be a duty laid upon her.
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