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Where they met is not known by anyone, but they started about four o'clock and drove through Prospect Park to the Coney Island boulevard. The day was fine and many fashionable turnouts and flashy rigs were on the road. Mrs.
"At the rate the rigs are rolling in, it'll take us all to put up the teams." The door slammed behind him as it had done behind the others as they hurried away. "Here!" Chip untied Weary's hands and feet and took him by the shoulder. "Wake up, Willie, if you want to be Queen o' the May." Weary sat up and rubbed his eyes. "Confound them two Jacks! What time is it ?" "A little after eight.
He had no acquaintance with boys, and felt extremely ill at ease, but Mhor, after studying him for a minute, was seized with a violent fancy for this new friend. "You're going to stay to tea, aren't you? Would you mind coming with me just now to look at the puddock-stools? It might be too dark after tea. Here is your hat." "But I'm not staying to tea," cried the unhappy owner of The Rigs.
The North Foreland had been rounded; the countless craft, of all sizes and rigs, generally to be found off the mouth of the Thames, had been cleared, and the Good Intent, with studding-sails alow and aloft, was standing across the German Ocean. Jim and I soon found our sea-legs, and were as well able to go aloft to reef topsails as the older hands.
"He rigs hisself up in a uniform jes' like as not he stole it, too, an' goes roun' foolin' people, meckin' out he's such a soldier. If he fools with me, I'm gwine to finish him!" Here Tim gripped his gun fiercely. The boys promised not to be fooled by the wily Johnson. All they asked was to have him pointed out to them.
After running on for half a mile, and making frequent turns, we found ourselves in a wide lagoon, several other craft of different sizes and rigs being at anchor in it. On shore, there was a collection of large wooden sheds looking like stores, and some huts, and a few buildings of more pretensions, apparently dwelling-houses.
There are six little houses, each exactly like Hillview, and I would like to be able to nod to the owners as I pass. It would be more friendly." Pamela and Jean, with Mhor and Peter, were walking along the road that contained Hillview and The Rigs. "Every house in this road is a twin," said Mhor, "except The Rigs. It's different from every other house."
In the orange colored dawn which always comes through the mists of that bay, the fishing fleet would crawl in under triangular lateen sails; for the fishermen of San Francisco Bay are all Neapolitans who have brought their customs and sail with lateen rigs stained an orange brown and shaped, when the wind fills them, like the ear of a horse. Along the waterfront the people of these craft met.
A wonderfully pretty place, Priorsford, he told himself: a home-like place if one had anyone to come home to. He turned slowly away. He would go and look at The Rigs. His mother had come to it as a bride. He had been born there. Though occupied by strangers, it was the nearest he had to a home.
Primroses come in the spring. Thirty years but The Rigs was not changed, at least not outwardly. Old Mrs. Reid had loved the garden, and Great-aunt Alison, and Jean after her, had carried on her work. The little house looked just as Peter Reid remembered it. He would go in and ask to see it, he told himself. He would tell these Jardines that the house was his and he meant to live in it himself.
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