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"Is that necessary? Surely by this time everyone in the Islands has heard the news; and, as for describing him " "It is the proper course to pursue," insisted Mr. Pope, who was something of a formalist; "in such er crises one should proceed regularly. Doubtless the Council, when called, will proclaim a reward." "For what?" asked Doctor Bonaday. Mr.
Pope coughed again awkwardly, and was about to make matters worse by further apology, but a rat-tat on the door prevented this, and Archelaus, hurrying out, admitted Dr. Bonaday, the physician of Garland Town, followed by John Ward, the constable, and old Abe. Of these three old men you would have found it difficult at first sight to decide which was the eldest: and you have not made Dr.
If Dr. Bonaday was an authority on lichens and mosses, Constable Ward was an authority on nothing at all, even in his own house, where his youngest grand-daughter attended to his wants. Amid a population which seldom broke the law and never resisted it, he had sunk of late years into a peaceful decay of all his faculties.
Bonaday, addressing the coxswain abruptly, as though awakened of a sudden from a brown study, "the accident must have happened just upon high-water; in which case Mr. Rogers will do best to start searching to westward along the north shore of Brefar, following the set of the ebb." "I reckon he'll take that line, sir, if he finds nothing at Piper's Hole," the coxswain answered.
Bonaday did not reply in words; but the Commandant who happened to be gazing just then towards North Island, where the great sea-light seemed to search the outer tides with its monstrous eye heard, or fancied that he heard, a sound as of a quiet chuckle. Suddenly he remembered Mr. Pope's scornful criticism of old Constable Ward: remembered it, and glanced at the Doctor.
Hugh's that once, running from his surgery with a hot poultice, he had clapped it on the harbour-master, who was politely intercepting him to point out that another two strides would take him over the quay's edge into deep water. In person, Dr. Bonaday was remarkable for a completely bald head, a hooked nose, and a pair of vague, impercipient eyes, as of an owl astray and blinking in the sunlight.
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