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"That's just what I should like to know, sir," said Leigh, sharply; "we've got rid of them, but they ran the little Kestrel ashore."
"Those sound to me like signals of recall," said Hilary to his companion, as gun after gun was fired, the last sending a shot skipping before the bows of the Kestrel. "Yes, they must be; but not for us," said Lieutenant Anderson coolly. "Why, there's a signal flying too," said Hilary, as he took his glass. "Yes, that's a signal of recall too," said the other coolly.
Then he began to think of the Kestrel having been ashore, the state of her deck about the fore-hatchway, and the late encounter, all of which he would have to minutely describe to the admiral if he ran into harbour to report Hilary Leigh's evasion. Then, as he grew more comfortable, he began to think that perhaps, after all, the young man had not run off.
And Hugh it was that got the rough edge of her tongue, until "I will go and fetch him back," said he. "You!" says she, "you! As well might the hoodie-craw bring back the kestrel," and at that the mother bridled. "What kind of talk is this in my house?" said she, "and to your brother. Mend your manners, mistress.
Brand made no reply. His wife brought in the tea, and he and Will helped themselves greedily. Presently Will said abruptly: "A've made that owd gun work all right." "Aye?" Brand's tone was interrogative, but listless. "I shot a kestrel an' a stoat wi' un this morning." "Yo'did, eh?"
Having often spent hours in trees for the purpose of a better watch upon animals and birds, I can vouch for it that ascending currents are not frequent rare, in fact, except in a gale. In a light air or calm there is no ascending current, or it is imperceptible and of no use to the kestrel.
As he gazed out to sea, where all was exceedingly dark, his heart gave a great leap, for not a couple of miles away, as he judged, a vessel was lying, and there was something in the position of the lights that made him feel certain it was the Kestrel.
Don Quixote, then, went on to say: "With regard to the mode in which thou shouldst govern thy person and thy house, Sancho, the first charge I have to give thee is to be clean, and to cut thy nails, not letting them grow as some do, whose ignorance makes them fancy that long nails are an ornament to their hands, as if those excrescences they neglect to cut were nails, and not the talons of a lizard-catching kestrel a filthy and unnatural abuse.
Keith turned on him so quickly that he pushed his chair back as if he were afraid he might spring across the table on him. "Yes. Resign!" Keith was leaning forward across the table now, resting his weight on one hand. "Anything to terminate our association. I am no longer in your employ, Mr. Kestrel." His eyes had suddenly blazed, and held Mr. Kestrel's eyes unflinchingly.
Keith's eyes turned on him quietly. " what I was misled into putting into your sink-hole down there. You may remember that you told me, when I went in, that you would guarantee me all I put in." His voice rose into a sneer. "Oh, no. None of that, none of that!" interrupted Norman, quickly. "You may remember, Mr. Kestrel, ?" But Keith interrupted him with a wave of his hand. "I do remember.
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