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Julia begged, with another flashing look. "No no!" the man exclaimed, discarding mere beauty with violence. "Pretty! Lord! what does prettiness matter? Of course you're pretty, but do you know what I said to myself the minute I saw you? I said, 'I'll bet that little girl has BRAINS! You smile," said Mr. Hazzard, with passionate earnestness, "but I'll swear to God I did!"
That he can trust him implicitly," protested Harry. "Just the same I can't get it out of my mind that there is something wrong about the fellow. I wish he hadn't seen that map and the proposed route of our expedition." "Oh bosh, you are thinking of what Captain Hazzard said about the Jap secret service. Our friend Oyama is much too thick to be a secret service man."
"Why, Elsie Hazzard, I have never liked you and George half so much as I like you now. You two and the Smiths stand out like Gibraltars in my esteem. I adore all of you. I sha'n't be happy again until I know that you four and no more are coming back to Schloss Rothhoefen for an indefinite stay. Good Lord, how happy we shall be!" I said it with a great deal of feeling.
On moved the ships and at last, early one day, Captain Barrington called the boys on deck and, with a wave of the hand, indicated a huge white cliff, or palisade, which rose abruptly from the green water and seemed to stretch to infinity in either direction. "The Great Barrier," he said, simply. "Which will be our home for almost a year," added Captain Hazzard.
"Splendid fellow," said he, with discouraging fervour. "One of the finest chaps I know, eh, George?" "For an Englishman," admitted Hazzard. "He's a gentleman, and that's more than you can say for the rag-tag of nobility that paid court to Aline Tarnowsy. He was in love with her, but he was a gentleman about it. A thoroughbred, I say." "Good looking?" I enquired. "Well, rather!
"Whatever is the matter?" demanded Captain Hazzard, gazing sternly at the trembling negro. "Oh, Massa Hazzard, ah done see a ghos' light in dar sky," he yelled. "Silence, sir, and stop that abominable noise. Frank, what do you know about this?" "Only that I really believe he saw such a thing, sir." "What, a light in the sky!" echoed Captain Barrington. "Did you see it, too?" "Not to-night, sir."
I really believe they meant to make soup out of me. They were worse than the electric ray, a great deal. Oh, dear, I wish I had obeyed Captain Hazzard, but I wanted to get a specimen of a Patagonian dog-flea. They are very rare."
But this in truth I acknowledge, and confess it before the Supreme Trinity, speaking it to the hazzard of that most Noble Ecclesiastical Jewel, that all what I have wrote, and yet shall write in this point, is all true, and shall be found to be no otherwise in truth: But that every ignorant, or vulgar person, which are haters and persecutors of this Mystery, do not well, fully, and clearly understand my Writings at first; alas! that cannot I help; pray unto God for his Grace, and ye Persecutors for pardon, labour without repining, read with understanding, then will no Mystery be withheld from you, but will be very easie for you to find out.
Carter Hazzard was not in evidence to-day, to Julia's relief. The rehearsal dragged on and on, everybody thrown out because Miss Dorothy Chase, the girl who was to play Wilhelmina, failed to appear. Julia took the part, when it was finally decided to go on without Dorothy, but by that time it was late, and the weary manager assured them that there must be another rehearsal that evening.
He had stepped into the deep doorway, and catching her by the shoulders he said now, inconsequently: "Do you know you're the prettiest girl that ever WAS?" "Am I?" said Julia, in a whisper. "You know you are you you little flirt!" Hazzard said, his eyes three inches from hers. For a tense second neither stirred, then the man straightened up suddenly: "Well!" he said loudly.
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