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He could presently wait no longer, either for Keno's return or for anything else. He caught up two of the blankets from the bed, and, wrapping them eagerly, swiftly about the moaning little man, left his cabin standing open and hastened down the white declivity as fast as he could go, Tintoretto, with puppy whinings of concern, closely tagging at his heels.
She divined his purpose in an instant, and her slender hand was laid pleadingly yet firmly on his arm. "Mr. Hayne, don't go. Don't think of going. Stay here until Sam comes. He's coming now," she faltered. "Is this Captain Rayner's house?" he asked, hoarse and low. "No matter whose it is! I welcome you here. You shall not go," she cried, impulsively, and both little hands were tagging at his arm.
"If she did not intend some wrong, why in the world is she tagging around after us?" persisted Tavia. "And if she did do wrong I cannot imagine why she would keep after us," objected Dorothy. "I am sure if she had anything to do with the ring she would be glad of a chance to get out of the store. Dear, I fancy every one is looking at me!" as some one turned at the sound of Dorothy's voice.
"I had to postpone making my cake," she said sharply, "for if Cathy and I are to get any shopping done and get back in time for lunch, we have to start. You'll have to look after Andy. Take him with you but keep an eye on him if you go out with the boys." "Other boys don't have to have their little brothers tagging along," complained Jerry.
"I'm goin' to ride with General Morgan, like Shelly did," Boyd repeated doggedly, with that stubbornness which seasons ago had kept him eternally tagging his impatient elders. "That's up to you." Suddenly Drew was tired, tired of trying to find words to pierce to Boyd's thinking brain if one had a thinking brain at his age. Slinging his carbine, Drew mounted Shawnee.
And he wrung Washington's hand and was about to hurry away when his companion, in a burst of grateful admiration said: "I think you are the best soul and the noblest I ever knew, Colonel Sellers! and if the people only knew you as I do, you would not be tagging around here a nameless man you would be in Congress."
She touched her hair with her finger tips here and there. "I might have known as much!" she said. "Everychild! And I suppose you think it is quite right for Everychild to come tagging home after you, making work for other people?" Tom cried out forlornly, "Oh, mother . . ." As for Everychild, he was thinking "She'll never let him go!"
I guess he walked in on velvet, and it is certain he stayed nigh two hours, for I timed him myself from the deck of the Ransom the beach being a great place to take notice, as I have said already and what was our feelings when next Sunday the captain marched into church yes, sir in crisp new panjammers and a polkadot neckerchief; and I'm blest if John Rau wasn't there, too, likewise polka-dotted; and that there Chinaman tagging along behind, rigged the same, only with earrings extra, and taking a back seat out of respeck!
I'm a big boy, so I can go; you said I might when I was bigger, and I am now," persisted Rob, with a cloud beginning to dim the brightness of his happy face. "We are going up to the great pasture, and it's ever so far; we don't want you tagging on," cried Jack, who did not admire the little boys. "I won't tag, I'll run and keep up. O Mamma! let me go!
Mrs. Hall had soon yielded, but Mr. Hall had held out stubbornly until almost the last moment. "I guess," he had said more than once, "you see enough of that Edwards boy without going off to the same boarding school with him! If you want to go to some other school I'll consider it, Tom, but I'm blessed if I'll have you tagging after Steve Edwards the way you propose!"
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