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He used to worry himself ill over that. I'll tell you what he said to me only " But fortunately at this juncture Miss Trevor was captured again, and Miss Thorn put her hand over her mouth. Heaven only knows what she would have said! The two boats did not arrive until nearly four o'clock, owing to some trouble to the tug's propeller.
"No, señor," said the man. "The tug " He broke off, and there was silence for some moments, after which a different voice took up the conversation in English. "Sorry it may be a day or two before we can send more of your coal. The tug's engines " "Has she got back?" Dick demanded sharply. "Speak louder; I cannot hear." Dick did so, but the other did not seem to understand. "In two or three days.
This added to his confusion, and seeing at the bat the Charleston catcher who had in the second inning knocked out a perfect base-hit and made two bases on it, Reddy left the wily fox at second base to his own devices, and paid no heed to Tug's efforts to beat the man back to second.
The rope was fastened to a massive iron hook and ran across a curved wooden horse at the tug's stern. Sometimes it slipped along the horse and tightened with a bang, for the clumsy hulk sheered about. When her stern went up one saw an indistinct figure holding the wheel. When they passed the Bar Lightship, Lister climbed to the bridge and for a few minutes looked about.
Once I heard a tug's whistle and knew that we were near the river, and we passed the railway station, apparently at the same time as on the previous occasion, for I heard a passenger train start and assumed that it was the same train.
At last, though, he reached the campus, and dragged heavily along the path to his dormitory. He stopped at Tug's to see if Tug had any remains left of the latest box of good things from home; but no answer came to his knock, and he went sadly up to the next Lakerim room. But that was empty too, and all of the others of the Dozen were away.
"How much is it worth, skipper?" asked the tug's engineer. "Not less than £1 an ounce " "No, sah," cried Manuel, with an ex cathedra air, "twenty-two shillings, sah. Dat's what the captain of de Fanny Long Hobart Town whaleship got fo' a piece eleven poun' weight in Sydney last June.
Now and then he caught a glimmer of the tug's light, and its erratic motions told how the staunch little vessel fared. There was a faint radiance around the shut door of the mess hall, and Madden walked toward it rather unsteadily, with the spumy brine dashing into his face.
But always, after an interval, another bright idea would strike another native or natives. He or they would disappear beneath the canvas awning over the tug's deck, to emerge shortly, carrying almost anything, from a parasol to a heavy chest. On close inspection they proved to be a very small people.
Instantly History felt a bitter, stinging pain at the back of his neck, a pain that ran like fire down along his spine, and he gave a great shriek of terror and almost swooned away. Tug's eyes were not blindfolded, and he had seen that, though the Crows had waved a red-hot poker before History's nose, they had quickly substituted a very cold rod to thrust down his back.
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