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The writings of your Dews, and Baxters, and Plummers, and Postells, and Andersons, and the proceedings of your ecclesiastical bodies, abundantly show this.
"I hope not, but I'm not certain, Sam. The Baxters are a bad lot, as all of us know, and as Dan grows older he'll be just as wicked as his father, and maybe worse." "What a pity a fellow like Dan can't turn over a new leaf," came from Tom Rover. "He's bright enough in his way, and would make a first-rate chap." "It's not in the blood," went on Dick. "We'll have to keep our eyes open, that's all.
For the present the captain was not in sight, having retired to the stern to consult Arnold Baxter upon several points. They remained on deck until noon, when the cook called them to dinner in the cabin. They found they were to dine with Captain Langless. "I asked the Baxters to join us, but they declined," he observed, as they sat down. "Now I am not so high-toned."
A lank, flat-chested woman came up the path from the opposite direction ... dressed drab in one long, undistinguished gown like a Hicksite or Quaker, without the hood ... her head was bare ... her fine, brown hair plaited flat. "Good morning!" "Good morning," she replied, a query in her voice. "I am John Gregory, the poet," I explained. "I arrived yesterday on a visit to the Baxters."
"Say, why didn't you wake me up?" asked Sam in astonishment. "You didn't stay up all night, did you?" "Not much!" answered Tom, and spoke of the Canadian, whose name was Peglace. "Well, what's to do?" "I must confess I don't know. I suppose the Baxters and Captain Langless are on the search for us." "More than likely." "Then we had better lay low until some vessel comes to rescue us."
"We'll have to shorten sail before long," said Martin Harris. "If we don't, a sudden gust might make us lose our stick." "I'd like to see the Flyaway lose her mast!" cried Tom. "It would just serve the Baxters right if they went to the bottom." "No, we don't want to see that yacht harmed," put in Dick quickly. "Remember, Dora is on board and that stolen fortune, too."
As the old saying goes: 'Nothing ventured, nothing gained." "But wouldn't you rather venture on the right side?" "You want me to come to terms; is that it?" "We do. We can make it worth your while, if you will help us and help bring the Baxters to justice. Do you know that Arnold Baxter is an escaped convict, who got out of a New York prison on a forged pardon?"
Venison and wine were on the board, and whiter bread than the town baxters afforded. It all comes back on me now that lofty hall, the skins of seal and otter and of stag upon the floor, the flaring candles and the glint of glass and silver, the banners swinging upon the walls over devices of pike, gun, and claymore the same to be used so soon!
So long as Crabtree was in front poor Tom did not anticipate any treachery, consequently he was taken completely by surprise when the Baxters fell upon him from behind and bore him to the ground. "Don't!" he cried, and tried to rise. But Dan Baxter struck him a heavy blow with a club, and then pointed the pistol at his head, and he had to submit.
"Nor I but we'll hear of them, nevertheless, mark my words. The Baxters won't leave us rest. They are a hard crowd, and Buddy Girk is just as bad," finished Tom. It was the opening of the spring term at Putnam Hall Military Academy, and the three Rover boys had just come up from Cedarville in the carryall, driven by Peleg Snuggers, the general-utility man of the place.
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