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"Well, I'm willing you should stay," said Dick, "and I'll speak to the doctor about it, if you wish." "And so will I," added Sam and Tom, and Stanley nodded. "But you ought to cut such fellows as Koswell and Larkspur," said Tom. "I will! I will!" said Flockley earnestly. The Rovers and Stanley Browne were as good as their word.
And at this same hour, on board the Marie, on the Northern Sea, which was very heavy on this particular evening, Yann and Sylvestre the two longed-for rovers sang ditties to one another, and went on gaily with their fishing in the everlasting daylight.
Brown and Day to advance, and then dismounted and met the strong grip of the farmer's hand with one equally as hearty. "I ask ten thousand pardons," he said, "for my questions, but I am obliged to keep a strict guard over my property, or I should be surprised by the forest rovers, who would amply repay the numerous checks which they have received at my hands, were they able to do so."
In the latter days of March, therefore, a sentence of virtual excommunication was pronounced against De la Marck and his rovers. A peremptory order of Elizabeth forbade any of her subjects to supply them with meat, bread, or beer. The command being strictly complied with, their farther stay was rendered impossible.
Even Jerry Haight, who belonged more distinctly to the "country-club set," and who had spent the early part of that winter shooting elk in Oregon, was among the ranks of the "rovers," who grouped themselves about the draughty doorways, and endeavored to appear unconscious each time Ridgeway gave the signal for a "break." The figures had gone round the hall once.
The Rovers were placed in two adjoining apartments, while the natives and Aleck were quartered in an addition of bamboo in the rear. "Keep your eyes and ears open, Aleck," whispered Dick, on separating from the faithful colored man. "And if you find anything wrong let us know at once." "Do you suspect anyt'ing, Massah Rober?" was Pop's anxious question. "I do and I don't.
"No, I ahem the position offered to me did not suit my views, so I declined it." "Gee-christopher!" came from Tom, and each of the Rovers could scarcely keep from laughing. "I think those Rover boys put up a job on you," said Mumps. "At least, I got an inkling that way." "Indeed. I would like to wring their necks, the imps!" burst out Josiah Crabtree. "Oh, what have I not suffered at their hands!
Thus exhilarated, we went on, as light-hearted and care-free as we could wish. And here I cannot refrain from lauding the very superior inducements which most intertropical countries afford, not only to mere rovers like ourselves, but to penniless people generally.
"Then you can be sure the two Baxters have gone to Colorado," said Tom. "And the three Rovers will go, too," said Sam. "Will you?" asked Dick. "I wanted to say so, but " "Yes, we'll go, and that settles it," cried Tom. "And the sooner we get off the better. But we must get father to explain everything a little more closely before we leave."
The Normans were then the foremost race of Christendom. Their valour and ferocity had made them conspicuous among the rovers whom Scandinavia had sent forth to ravage Western Europe. Their sails were long the terror of both coasts of the Channel. Their arms were repeatedly carried far into the heart of: the Carlovingian empire, and were victorious under the walls of Maestricht and Paris.
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