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Shag said nothing; he was angry at the selfish heartlessness of the other Outcast. It seemed hardly a fair recognition of the service he had rendered the Dog-Wolf when he prodded the Bear from his throat. "Come, let us be moving," he said; "we must find another crossing." "Oh! but I feel years younger," cried A'tim joyfully, as they headed again for Battle River. "Euh-euh-euh-euh!
What's that at the jewelry store you say? Well, will this never end? Yes, I'll go there at once!" "What is it?" asked Jack, as the colonel hung up the receiver. "Why, Kettridge telephoned to my room, and Shag took the message and repeated it to me. Darcy has just been killed by an electric shock in the jewelry store!"
The prisoner went back to his little cell with a happier look on his face than when he had left it. As for Colonel Ashley, after he had revived Amy from her faint at the stream, he had told Shag to take apart the fishing rod. "For, Shag, I guess I won't be needing it for a week or so," said the old detective, and there was a mingling of two emotions in his voice.
If he entered it, even to-day, he would have seen no more than a hundred and fifty to two hundred people; mostly mulattoes "bronze ornaments" and peasants in shag trousers, jackets of coarse blue cloth, and no waistcoats, with one or two magistrates, a dozen gentlemen or so, and probably twice that number of ladies. It was not an island given over to piety, or to religious habits.
Perhaps they will even say: 'It is only old Shag, the Outcast; let us feed in peace. Their eyes are the eyes of Calves, and their noses tell them nothing, for the hunt Man is down Wind, is he not, A'tim?" "Surely, Brother; even a moneas, a green hunter of a Paleface, would know better than to send the flavor of his presence on the Wind's back." "Yes, even so," continued Shag.
"No, I came here for a quiet bit of fishing, and I just stumbled on this case against my will. I'm not even working on it, and I'm not going to. Nobody knows I'm in town except my man Shag and you. I know I can depend on Shag, and as for you " "I'm with you till the cows come to roost, Colonel. I'm strong fer you! I kin forget I ever saw you." "That's good. I thought you'd be that way.
"But I thought, Colonel, sah, dat de mo' of a puzzle it were, de bettah yo' laiked it!" ventured Shag. Colonel Ashley tried to repress a smile. "Get to bed, you black rascal!" he said with an affectionate pat on Shag's back. "Get to bed! What are you staying up so late for, anyhow?" "To gib yo' a message, Colonel, sah," answered Shag.
You must despise me too much to forgive me, despise me for my cowardice in not going with you to help Hal when he was drowning, despise me for my mean prejudices, despise me for oh, pshaw! I ain't fit to even ask you to forgive me. I ain't fit to even offer you my hand." "Hold on! hold on!" smiled Shag. "There is nothing to despise in a chap who is big enough to offer an apology.
The Shag is the most numerous of the sea birds which frequent the Islands, the Herring Gull not even excepted, every nook and corner of the high cliffs in all the Islands being occupied by scores of Shags during the breeding-season. They take care, however, to place their nests in tolerably inaccessible places that cannot well be reached without a rope.
She faltered, looking from Shag to the colonel and then to the sympathetic colored man again, for on his face was a look of pity. "How did you know I was here?" asked Colonel Ashley. "I went to your hotel. The clerk told me you had come to this stream. It's the only good one for trout around here besides the one on my father's farm."
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