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I did not intend to tell a falsehood by saying I did not have it, nor did I intend to give it up if it could possibly be avoided. "Did you hear what I said?" continued Stumpy, after a pause. "I thought you said the paper wasn't valuable," I returned, more to gain time than anything else. "Neither it ain't, but, just the same, I want it. Come, hand it over."
"So am I; but it cannot be helped. Can I use this room for a while?" By the look upon Mrs. Decker's face it was plain to see she wanted to say, "No, you can't," but she hardly dared to speak the words, so she gave an icy assent and withdrew. The merchant followed her to the door and saw that it was closed tightly behind her. Then he strode across the room and faced John Stumpy.
In returning to the boat, they passed quite near Coffin Rock, and of course Leopold could not help thinking of the hidden treasure in the sand. Stumpy, with the bucket of clams in his hand, led the way to the spot, not exactly with the approbation of his companion, who was afraid that the waters had not yet smoothed over the beach so as to conceal his recent operations.
"I think I'll wait till it clears off," I returned. "I'm not on business, and " "Say, Decker, how long is it going to take you to hitch up?" interrupted a voice from the doorway, and the next instant Mr. Woodward strode into the barn, followed by John Stumpy. I did not have time to conceal myself. I tried to step behind a partition, but before I could do so the merchant's eye was on me.
But I am anxious about her, Stumpy. There is some trouble in the background of which she has never spoken of which she can never bear to speak. Have you any idea what it is?" He moved with an unwonted touch of restlessness. "I think she worries about the future," he said. "That isn't all," Isabel said with conviction. "There is more than that. It hangs over her like a cloud. It weighs her down."
In that tale we shall learn the particulars of an interesting voyage on the Great Lakes, and the particulars of a revelation which came to Stumpy when he least expected it. "Frank, I suppose you are happy now you have your father with you," said Bart one day. "Happy?" repeated Frank, with a little lump in his throat. "I am more than happy.
Nursery games in stumpy green boats were not consonant with his dignity. He did not want to hurt Priscilla's feelings, but he was anxious that she should understand his position. She seemed unimpressed. "That's all right," she said. "I'll row you. You can sit in the stern and let your legs dangle over in the water. I've often done that when Peter Walsh has been rowing.
Then Fred laughed, and the other boys, and the minister laughed, and the cane could do nothing but stamp its foot in amusement. "Well, Fred," said the minister, "what is it? Speak out." But Fred couldn't speak now for laughing, and Sammy had to do the talking himself. He was a stumpy boy, who had stopped off short; and you couldn't guess his age, because his face was so much older than his body.
I almost lost my senses among the ribbons, and flew up and down among the flounces, and went mad amongst the basques. I move round as gay as when I was young; and modern scissors, with their stumpy ends, and loose pivots, and weak blades, and glaring bows, and course shanks, are stupid beside an old family piece like me.
Festing indicated two men moving about the waterside. They looked curiously stumpy with their legs buried in the snow. "I sent them to make a chain fast to the rocks. We'll shackle up the first logs we run down and make a lumber pond. A few may shoot across the top, but we'll see what must be done as we get on."
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