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Wicks came across to the "Sans Souci," as the saloon was called, his face nigh black, his eyes almost closed and all bloodshot, and yet bright as lighted matches. "Come out here, boys," he said; and when they were some way off among the palms, "I hold twenty-four," he added in a voice scarcely recognisable, and doubtless referring to the venerable game of cribbage.
It was Wicks not so bald not so aggressive of aspect, but Wicks beyond the shadow of a doubt. On the back was written "Hiram Cleave." Wicks turned upon him as he entered. "I can't wait here all day while you conduct your business in the hall," he said. "Who was the man outside?" Garrison had grown singularly calm. "That," he said, "was Foster Durgin."
"Yes, we have the treasure and had the fun of the contest, but what did Kie Wicks get out of it?" demanded Bet. "Nothing at all!" chirruped Joy. "He's just out of luck. And he deserves it for kidnapping our professor." "Atta boy, Joy! Dad says to be generous to your enemies, but I'm afraid I haven't one little generous thought for Kie Wicks.
"She lies lovely," he remarked, and ordered out a boat with the starboard anchor. "Here! steady!" cried Tommy. "You ain't going to turn us to, to warp her off?" "I am though," replied Wicks. "I won't set a hand to such tomfoolery for one," replied Tommy. "I'm dead beat." He went and sat down doggedly on the main hatch. "You got us on; get us off again," he added.
I'll sit a while. It's been a long time since I've seen Mrs. Wicks." This did not seem to please Maude Wicks, but were was nothing further to say. Mrs. Patten settled back in the easy chair and smiled.
She eyed Grace searchingly, then said, with conviction, "I don't believe you did miss them. They were too plain to be missed." Grace hesitated, then said frankly: "To tell you the truth, Elfreda, I did fancy for a moment that Miss Wicks favored me with a very peculiar look. Then I decided it to be a case of imagination on my part. Those girls haven't troubled us this year.
In the mean time, your friends outside have been dropping off, one after another, until you find yourself almost alone, nursing your mortal complaint as if it were your baby, hugging it and kept alive by it, if to exist is to live. They are like lamps with half their wicks picked down, and will continue to burn when other lamps have used up all their oil.
"Come in!" called Garrison, keeping his eyes on Wicks, whose face had turned from the red of rage to the white of sudden fear. "Come in don't wait!" It was Pike and young Will Barnes. "That's the man!" said the youth on entering, his eyes transfixed by Wicks. "Look at him laugh!" "I'd kill you all if I had a gun!" cried Wicks in an outburst of malignity. "I killed Hardy, yes!
Two candles are lighted, the one on the right hand and the other on the left of the corridor; and after the litter has passed, the candle on the left is passed over to the right, and, the two wicks being brought together, the candles are extinguished. These last three ceremonies are only performed at the weddings of persons of high rank; they are not observed at the weddings of ordinary persons.
This unless discolored with the brass of candlesticks in that case their last end was soap grease. Rush lights were dips this I state on information and belief, since I never saw one. Also on information and belief, it is here set forth, that folk in the back countries where wicking was not easily had, used instead of wicks, splinters of fat pine, known as light wood.
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