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It's big enough to take your pretty little fists as far as yer knuckleses, and then they'll jam and jam more, and the more they jams the tighter they'll hold the rope till some 'un comes. Take the skin off? Well, let it. Sarve it right for not being stuck tighter on to the hones. Have to grow again, that's all. I arn't going to let Master Aleck's boat sink to the bottom if I die for it.
From his marriage-day forth, Aleck's grip had been upon the purse, and Sally had seldom known what it was to be privileged to squander a dime on non-necessities. "Thir-ty thousand dollars!" the song went on and on. A vast sum, an unthinkable sum! All day long Aleck was absorbed in planning how to invest it, Sally in planning how to spend it. There was no romance-reading that night.
Welcome home, old boy! Well, well, well! if you ain't a sight to cure the headache! Yes, yes; it's all right. This is Marion. We've got to stop at Aleck's first. Remember Aleck? Remember Janet and her sugar? Well, well, well!" Ninian approached, amazed and incredulous, inquiring: "Think that creature knows what you're saying?" "Forty-niner" turned upon the questioner indignantly.
But Aleck was on the alert and avoided several, till a more vigorous one was attempted by the biggest lad present, a great, hulking, stupid, hobbledehoy of a fellow, who drove a companion against Aleck's shoulder, making him stagger for a moment, while the aggressor burst out into a hoarse laugh which was chorussed by the little crowd, and then stopped.
"In with you then," said Aleck. "Nay, nay," whispered Tom. "She arn't afloat, Eben Megg. Here, lay yer weight on to her if yer can't shove." "Hi! hallo there!" cried a voice from the direction where the struggle had taken place. In response there was the sound of the boat's keel grating on the water-covered shingle, and the smuggler pressed close up to Aleck's side.
Aleck's nonchalance had already disappeared, in the series of surprises; but at Agatha's words a flush of pleasure and relief overspread his face. He strode quickly over toward Agatha's couch. "Oh, I say old Jim I thought, I was afraid " Agatha was touched by the evidences of his emotion, and her voice became very gentle. "I fancy it is the same James Hambleton of Lynn?"
Trunks, however, should not show so many superfluous low branches. Work of a beaver in felling a tree with which to build a dam for his home. In the middle of the night the telephone bell rang. Instantly Wilbur heard the doctor's voice responding. "Yes, where is it?" he queried. "Where? Oh, just beyond Basco Aleck's place. All right, I'll start right away."
"My, but this beats anything that I ever saw before!" cried Sam, as the wind began to rush by them with ever-increasing velocity. "Him blow big by-me-by," said Cujo with a sober face. "Him big storm, dis." "The air was full of a moanin' sound," to use Aleck's way of expressing it. It came from a great distance and caused the monkeys and birds to set up more of a noise than ever.
Aleck felt nettled, drew himself up, and returned the stare before making a similar inspection of the young naval officer. "Whose boat's that, boy?" said the latter, haughtily. "Mine," was Aleck's prompt reply. "What ship's that, middy I don't mean the cutter, of course?" "Well, of all the insolence " began the lad. "Do you know, sir, that you mustn't address one of the King's officers like that?"
Aleck's eyes turned dim, and the rock face in front spun round before him as he felt himself pressed backward a few feet beneath what seemed to be a rugged stone eave, which protected him and his companion from being seen by anyone who should peer over the edge, while the next moment the smuggler's lips were close to his ear and the breath came hot as the man whispered: "I never knowed a lad before who dared to jump like that.
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