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"Whoever came to the window tonight, came there to find out what we were doing in this cabin! That's all there is to that!" "Whoever came to the window tonight," Will repeated, "came there for the purpose of hypnotizing one of us boys into telling where the Little Brass God is hidden!" "Then he must be about fourteen miles off his trolley," laughed Sandy.
We now proceeded on our intended expedition against Guayaquil, sending the Beginning ahead to Punta arena, or Sandy Point, on the island of Puna, to see if there was any force to oppose us; but she only found a Spanish bark, quite empty, riding close under the point. She had been sent to load salt, but her men had abandoned her on seeing us approach.
Sandy and the storekeeper were watching his harsh face in wonder, while Toby's head was turned in the direction of the departing man. It was Sunny Oak from his post at the window who finally broke the silence. "Guess you gone plumb 'bug, Bill," he said, with an amiable grin.
It was natural that she, who had never seen other flower-beds than these, should, aided by the home-recollections of her mother, imagine far prettier, that she should dare suggest to Sandy, until his patience and his skill were exhausted, that the final good result should have come about in a moment when no one looked for it, he giving up his task with vexation, she accepting it with humility, and both working together thereafter, the most helpful of friends.
The new herds that came from Kansas City are not counted into our old rating. Did you think of that? Having more sheep this year we must pay in more money. You didn't happen to remember, did you, to get permits for those extra flocks?" "No, Sandy, I didn't; but of course Thornton has attended to it. See, here he comes. We will ask him.
The crest of the great wave lifted them up, and bore them swiftly inland, the two increasing the speed with their oars. They went far up on a sandy beach, where the boat struck. They sprang out, Obed taking with him the unloaded musket, and ran. The retreating water caught them about the ankles and pulled hard, but could not drag them back.
With thoughts of this sort, I took the roots from Sandy, and put them in my right hand pocket. This was, of course, Sunday morning. Sandy now urged me to go home, with all speed, and to walk up bravely to the house, as though nothing had happened.
The country on either side is of a red and white sandy soil, timbered with bloodwood, mahogany, melaleuca and black and white tea-tree, coarsely grassed, with heath and scrub running down to the banks in many places.
Sandy and Nan were waiting together in the hall, and both looked up anxiously as she bore down upon them. To the ordinary eye she may have appeared merely a very plain old woman, arrayed in a hideous dressing-gown of uncompromising red flannel.
"I am more and more impressed;" he wrote a friend a few weeks later, "I am more and more impressed with the importance of 'working whilst the day lasts. If 'we all do fade as a leaf, if we are 'as the sparks that fly upward, if the billows of time are swiftly removing the sandy foundation of our life, what we intend to do for the captive, and for our country, and for the subjugation of a hostile world, must be done quickly.
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