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I may be poor and ignorant and no shakes of a scholar, but I ain't goin' to put up with 'em." So we six faced the other twelve with as good grace as we could muster, Roger, the cook, Blodgett, Neddie Benson, Davie, and I, and there was a long silence. But Roger had got out his pistol now, and the lull in the storm was ominous.
Once old Blodgett, prowling like a cat in the night, was telling how he was going to "take his money and buy a little place over Ipswich way. There's nice little places over Ipswich way where a man can settle snug as you please and buy him a wife and end his days in comfort. We'll go home by way of India, too, I'll warrant you, and take each of us our handful of round red rubies.
"It is quite true, sir; they seem to be a party of raiders of some sort," said Seymour, coolly. "I fear that Blodgett has been killed, as I heard nothing of him. I saw them from the brow of the hill. Perhaps you may escape by the back way, though there is little time for that. Do you take Miss Wilton and try it, sir; leave me to hold these men in play."
Then there was Huldy allers opposite to him, with her blue eyes and her cheeks like two fresh peaches. She was kind o' pleasant to look at; and the more the doctor looked at her the better he liked her; and so things seemed to be goin' on quite quiet and comfortable ef it hadn't been that Mis' Pipperidge and Mis' Deakin Blodgett and Mis' Sawin got their heads together a talkin' about things.
The Honourable Hilary gave a grunt, as he always did when he was surprised and displeased, as though some one had prodded him with a stick in a sensitive spot. "Your son? Why, Vane, you never told me that," said Mr. Flint. "I didn't know that you knew him, Victoria." "I don't," answered Victoria, "but I'd like to. What did he do to Mr. Blodgett?" she demanded of Hilary. "Mr.
The next evening as Peter was letting himself in at his own door he had moved to the second floor front by this time Mrs. Blodgett stopped him. "Miss Havens left her regards for you," she explained. "She went to-day." "Oh," said Peter, "wasn't it sudden?" "Sort of. She'd been considerin' of it for some time, and last night she made up her mind. But I did think," said Mrs.
"But what's this treasure you're talking about," some one asked. "Sure," said Blodgett in a husky whisper, "it's a treasure such as never was heard of before. There's barrels and barrels of gold and diamonds and emeralds and rubies and no end of such gear. There's idols with crowns of precious stones, and eyes in their carved heads that would pay a king's ransom.
Blodgett knew Mr. and his mother, who has recently been remarried to a young husband, and is now somewhere in Italy. They seemed to have boarded at Mrs. Blodgett's house on their way to the Continent, and within a week or two, an acquaintance and pastor of Mr. , the Rev. Dr. , has sailed for America.
Then Blodgett, Davie Paine, the cook, and the man from Boston lifted the plank and inclined it over the bulwark, and so passed all that was mortal of poor Bill Hayden. Suddenly, in the absolute silence that ensued when Roger closed the prayer-book, I became aware that he was signaling me to come nearer, and I stepped over beside him. At the same instant the reason for it burst upon me.
Now we can't one of us ever see it," she mourned. "Better not judge Ben till you hear the reason, Polly," advised Mother Pepper, gravely. "I'll warrant he had some good one." "So I have," cried Ben, with a dreadful feeling at his heart that his comrade Polly blamed him. "Mr. Blodgett told me I mustn't run home and tell you, though I begged him as hard as I could to let me."
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