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Ungrateful. that I was, the happiness of home ceased to content me. I heard afar the roar of the great world, and roved impatient by the shore. At length, one evening, my father, with some modest hums and ha's, and an unaffected blush on his fair forehead, gratified a prayer frequently urged on him, and read me some portions of the Great Work.
He will probably be shot to-morrow, for his guilt is clear." The girl's head fell forward in her hands. There was a little silence in the room. The general watched her narrowly, but said nothing further. He was waiting, in full confidence that she would speak. He could afford to be patient now. "General Beauregard," she whispered at last, "I am the traitor. He was detained by me."
Big Injun better go fight. He went away, and in about an hour my two Frenchmen came running back with more men. They untied me, and fastening a line around my neck, one led and the other drove me, hitting me with his loaded gun, punching the muzzle into my b-back.
"The frigate Gloucester, with Admiral Benbow aboard." And he caught the arm of one of the deserters, and danced him round the deck till he was dizzy. I have had many happy moments in my life, but none happier, I do think, than when Admiral Benbow clapped me on the shoulder and cried, in his big quarterdeck voice: "Why, my lad, we must have you a middy, and you shall serve the King."
Bob coloured with pleasure as soon as he was left alone; but his common sense prevailed the next moment. "That's very kind of him," he thought, "but it's all gammon; I am only a boy yet. And there hang it all! since Miss Linton spoke to me as she did, hang me if I care if I am!"
And why did you not tell me that it was you whom I hired on the night when I was so unfortunate?" "I considered the secret as belonging to the young lady, and having told her, I left it to her discretion to make you acquainted or not as she pleased." "It was thoughtful and prudent of you, at all events, although there was no occasion for it.
"I've got plenty of money of my own. Over a million, Billy says now. Uncle Elijah left it to me. I didn't want him to, but perhaps it was all for the best." She put her head back against the cushions and shut her eyes. "I'm terribly sleepy," she said, "and as for the Inn that's making money, too, you know. Last month we cleared more than two hundred dollars."
They made funny reading, but they threw a dangerous flare upon my "past" and put me at a serious disadvantage. It happened that when Artemus Ward had been in town a fortnight before he gave me a dinner and had some of his friends to meet me. Among these was a young fellow of the name of Halstead, who, I was told, was the coming man on the Commercial.
"How well you look in that pretty dress, Diana!" he would say; "I declare you are as brave a figure as any in my Lord's picture-gallery. Let me fetch you a cluster of monthly roses, though I am not fit to hold the candle to you." Or, "Come, Die, let us have a stroll and a smoke in the garden." Or, "Sit still for another game, will you? My hand is just in and my luck beginning.
and reference to the score-sheet, which is still preserved among the records of the County Club, shows that six of the seven wickets were clean bowled. The Eleven had no second innings; the match was drawn, owing to rain. Stott has told me that the Eleven had to bat on a dry wicket, but after making all allowances, the performance was certainly remarkable.
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