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I am saying that to fetch this treasure will be difficult, even if we find it " "You don't doubt its existence?" "I do not, ma'am. I doubt it so little, ma'am, that I would ten times sooner engage to find than to fetch it. But I don't even despair of fetching it, if the lady goes on being as clever as she has begun." "What?" exclaimed Plinny. "I? Clever?"
"He is confident that he saw a man, somewhat more than an hour since, standing at the head of the creek." "Now, that is very curious," said Plinny; "for the gentleman told me he had borrowed Harry's boat without being observed." "I I beg your pardon, ma'am!" Captain Branscome stared about him. "A gentleman, did you say?" "Yes, and such distinguished manners!
"And there's one thing," said Plinny, "we may thank God for, if it is possible to be thankful for anything in this dreadful business. The murderer, whoever he was, got little profit from his crime, for I know pretty well the state of your poor father's finances, Harry; and if, as Captain Branscome tells us, he had taken ten guineas from the box, there must have been very few left in it."
Madam" he turned to Miss Plinlimmon "is this the man who called at the cottage two days ago." "Yes," answered Plinny; "and once before, as I remember." "And on each occasion did you observe something strange in his manner?" "Very strange indeed.
While Plinny cultivated the Muse and with the more zest as, to her pride and delight, she found herself immune from sea-sickness I kept up, through the long mornings, the pretence of studying mathematics with Captain Branscome, and regularly at noon received a lesson in taking the ship's bearings.
"I suck 'em, for my part; but some prefer 'em beaten up in a dish of tea." She suited the action to the word, and beat up one in the Captain's teacup while Plinny carved him a slice of ham. "Ladies," he protested, "I am ashamed. I do not deserve this hospitality. If you would allow me first to tell my story!" "You're all right," said Miss Belcher. "Couldn't hurt a fly, if you wanted to. There!
We won't call it a gift; we will call it an acknowledgement for the extra pains you have put into teaching my son. Tut, man! said he, as I protested. 'Harry has told us all about that. I assure you the youngster came near to wearying us, last holiday, with praise of you." "And so he did," Plinny here interrupted. "That is to say, sir I I mean we were only too glad to listen to him."
Before I could answer there came wafted to our ears from eastward a sound of distant shouting, and almost simultaneously, from the high-road near at hand, the trit-trot of hoofs approaching at great speed from westward, and the "Who-oop!" of a man's voice, lusty on the morning air. "That will be Mr. Jack Rogers," said Plinny. "He brings us news, for certain! Yes; he is reining up."
"And small blame to you, my dear!" agreed Miss Belcher; "only, you see, when folks go about killing one another, the hallucination begins to look disastrously as if there were something in it." "Yet I still fail to see," urged Plinny, "why our dear Major should have fallen a victim." "It's plain as a pikestaff, if you'll excuse me," Mr. Rogers answered her.
And of a lady for whom for whom " "Disrespect?" I whistled. "Is it worse to speak disrespect or to act it? I have known Plinny for years you for a month or two; and one of these days, if this expedition gets into a mess as it likely will with such handling that sensitive lady will make you see stars."