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Except for a greater number of board shacks and a larger area of stump and top-littered waste immediately behind it, Fyfe's headquarters, outwardly, at least, differed little from her brother's camp. Jack led her to a long, log structure with a shingle roof, which from its more substantial appearance she judged to be his personal domicile.
She motioned me to precede her, and she followed me down the hall to my room and into it, carefully closing the door behind her. "Missis," she whispered, kneeling down beside my chair. "Scold me! Do! I've been made the real fool of by that little blister. Lord, if I wouldn't like to take her across my knee with a fat pine shingle in my good right hand. Listen!
Strange and solitary was the life he led, but he slept as soundly in his bed of seaweed on the wild precipice as he did in his bed at home. But one morning, when he awoke, a confused murmur broke upon his ear. Peering over the ledge, he saw a crowd of soldiers standing on the shingle at the mouth of the cavern. "Come down and surrender, in the name of the emperor!" cried the sergeant.
Oh, who will with me ride?" The next line or two was lost in a clatter of hoofs on shingle, and then once more the words rose clearly above the dewy pines, "To win a blooming bride!"
"What have you done then, out there, Philip Vaudin?" she cried, as his boat's nose grated on the shingle. "Pardi, ma garche, we have done nothing." "But the shooting?" "Some one shot at the shelter to see if he was inside, and the rest shot because they thought there must be something to shoot at." "And you have not got him?" asked another disappointedly. "Never even seen him." "Ah ba!"
He had heard every word of Judith's foolishness and seemed to be much pleased with it, considering he was a learned young lawyer getting ready to hang out his shingle, and supposed to be above fairy stories and nursery jingles. Jeff had noticed, as he passed Judith's home, that the little blue car was parked in front and his surmise was that the girl was going to the ball but had not yet gone.
And we sat there, staring at each other, for all the world like a couple of penguins on a sub-Arctic shingle. Allie, I remembered, was Dinky-Dunk's English cousin, Lady Alicia Elizabeth Newland, who'd made the Channel flight in a navy plane and the year before had figured in a Devonshire motor-car accident.
The packers had already gone to sleep; the dew was heavy, but Nasmyth lay down on the shingle and Carew took a place beside his wife's chair. Suddenly Millicent leaned forward with her face turned toward the lake. "Listen!" she cried sharply. "Can't you hear something?" No sound reached the others for a moment; and then Nasmyth jumped up. "Yes," he exclaimed; "canoe paddles."
She was on the other side of the gap in another moment. Wondering uneasily why she had obeyed the compelling pressure, but glad to see that the stranger's face was perfectly unmoved, and that he was evidently quite unconscious of having done anything unusual, she crossed without mishap. When they stood on the shingle he dropped her hand. "Thank you," she said. "I'm afraid you got rather wet."
There was a glint of humour also, like the shrewd half-melancholy humour of a monkey that possesses the wisdom of all the ages, and can impart none of it. Suddenly there was a movement on the shingle. The lonely figure had turned and flung itself face downwards among the tumbling stones.
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