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By the time his strength returned, Mark had given up, altogether, the hope of ever seeing Betts again. It was just possible that the poor fellow might fall in with a ship, or find his way to some of the islands; but, if he did so, it would be the result of chance and not of calculations.
As it appeared, the voyage from the group to Rancocus Island, a distance of fully a hundred leagues, was effected without any accident, and the while of that formidable force was safely landed at the very spot where Betts had encamped on his arrival out with the colonists.
"Same here," remarked Tom Betts, eagerly. Jack laughed as if pleased. "I declare, I really expected to hear you knock my idea all to flinders," he remarked. "But what under the sun could they be carrying in that big box?" asked Tom Betts.
On the other hand, Betts was a prime seaman a perfect long-cue, in fact whereas the most that could be said of Bigelow, in this respect, was that he was a stout, willing fellow, and was much better than a raw hand. The governor named Betts as his first, and Bigelow as his second officer. Brown remained behind, having charge of the navy in the governor's absence.
"I'm not the man I wor," he confided to Peter Betts, as they were eating their dinner under a hedge in the damp October sunshine. "When I wor a young man, I wouldn't ha' minded them things, not if it was iver so. But now they do give me the shivers in my inside." "What do?" said Peter Betts, with a mouthful of cold bacon.
Halsey said dryly, fixing the young man with her small beady eyes, "And you don't mind telling on your own grandfather?" "Why shouldn't I?" laughed Dempsey, "when it's sixty years ago. They've lost their chance of hanging him anyhow." Mrs. Halsey shook her head in inarticulate protest. Betts said reflectively, "I wouldn't advise you to be tellin' that tale to Miss Henderson."
What the deuce Say Betts, eh?" Betty had given him a sharp little kick. The borderman looked embarrassed. He hesitated and flushed. Evidently he would have liked to avoid his brother's question; but the inquiry came direct. Dissimulation with him was impossible. "Helen wanted this, an' I reckon that's where I'm goin' with it," he said finally, and walked away.
His sister, who had come to stay with them, says that John Betts had seemed rather brighter in the evening, and his wife rather less in terror. She spoke very warmly to her sister-in-law of your having come to see her, and said she had promised you to wait a little before she took any step.
"Gee, Moth', I never heard you coming down!" said Jim delightedly, as the last notes died away and the gap, his seniors had all been dreading, was bridged. "I heard you," Betts said, radiant and clinging to her mother. Mrs. Carroll was very white, and they could see her tremble. "Surely, you're going to open your presents to-night, Nance?" "Not if you'd rather we shouldn't, Mother!"
The result of their watchfulness was made apparent when Tom Betts suddenly declared that he had seen something that looked like a blacksmith's forge just beyond a screen of bushes ahead of them. Cautiously advancing, the seven scouts presently found themselves looking upon the exact object Tom had mentioned, which proved that his powers of observation were good.
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