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Roy looked at the other as if he thought he had gone suddenly mad, as well he might. "I don't understand you," he gasped. "What is all this a joke? It's a very poor one if it is." "I'll give you a chance to explain," said the officer grimly, tightening his hold on Roy's collar, "as things stand at present, I believe you to be as black a young traitor as ever wore shoe leather."
Near the Palace, he deserted Bijli, Son of Lightning; tethered him securely and spoke a few words in his ear, while the devoted creature nuzzled against him, as who should say, 'What need of speech between me and thee'? Then following Roy's directions he made his way cautiously up the hillside, where the arch showed clear in the moon.
"May it please your Grace, I am obliged to give your Grace the trouble of this, by Robert Roy's commands, being so unfortunate at present as to be his prisoner.
"That is what I call a King," remarked the Afghan sentry, whom Roy, going with his little master to see the preparations, found keeping guard at the gate. "None of your skinflints like Kumran. Aye!" he continued, seeing Roy's look of surprise and distaste, "I have done what I said I would fought for Kumran till there was no more fighting to be done.
This was the first time Nelly had suggested united prayer to her brother; she did it timidly, and the rebuff caused her to shrink within herself. Roy's quick eye observed the shrinking; he repented instantly, and, drawing Nelly to him, laid her head on his breast.
The boys listened to these and similar conjectures with frightened eyes; then Dudley whispered, "I believe he is in his cave, Roy; we'll go and look for him. Only don't tell these women about it, because he hasn't told anybody but us where it is." They left the shop and started for the hills, but Roy's lameness made progress very slow.
Far and near, through vale and hill, Are faces that attest the same, And kindle like a fire new stirr'd, At sound of Rob Roy's name. There were several advantages which Rob Roy enjoyed for sustaining to advantage the character which he assumed.
'Keep hold of the bayonet till I tell you to move, came Roy's quiet voice. 'Afraid we'll have to leave it where it is. We can't shift it again. That's right. 'Now get your fingers into that crack to the right. I'm going to move your feet for you. What Roy was doing Ken could not tell, and he dared not look. But a moment later he felt the big fellow's hands shifting his feet.
I do not now doubt that he will be as happy as, perhaps happier than, if he had never left his own country. Every one must sincerely hope that Captain Fitz Roy's noble hope may be fulfilled, of being rewarded for the many generous sacrifices which he made for these Fuegians, by some shipwrecked sailor being protected by the descendants of Jemmy Button and his tribe!
He had seen no Indian women, he explained, except in bazaars or in service; so he couldn't quite understand, until his own mother made things clearer to him and recommended him to go and see for himself. Now he had seen and succumbed: and Roy's very private triumph was unalloyed.
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