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Even thus attired did Miss Belcher, a goddess of the dawn, come striding over the footbridge and across the turf to us; and the effect of the apparition upon Captain Branscome's nerves, after a night of travel alongside Russell's van, I can only surmise. I did not observe it, having for the moment no eyes for him.
"I dare say he would, ma'am," I answered, guiltily recalling Captain Branscome's own words to me on this subject. "Then why did he take the man's money, eh? Well, go on with your story." I breathed more easily for a while, but by-and-by, when I came to tell of the discussion by the old windmill, I felt her eyes upon me again. "Wait a moment.
From the edge a slope of loose stones ran down to the bottom of the cleft, where a thin stream of water trickled. The stones slid with me, but not dangerously; and as we scurried down I in my thick boots, she in her diminutive dancing-shoes I heard Plinny's voice join with Captain Branscome's in calling my name.
We won't go in a crowd this time, neither; not a dozen, nor yet four of us, but only you an' me, Brooks. It's the safer way the only safe way an' there'll be the fatter sharin's. Now you know hey? why Branscome's givin' me lessons in navigation."
Yet it needed no examination to tell me that the eyeglasses were Captain Branscome's. I recognized the delicate cable pattern of their gold rims, glinting in the sunlight. I recognized the ring and the frayed scrap of black ribbon attached to it. I remembered the guinea with which Captain Branscome had paid my fare on the coach. I remembered Miss Plinlimmon's account of the stolen cashbox.
I have hidden it!" Here she fell back on her old litany. "He would kill me if he knew . . . I hid it oh, years ago! But come, and I will show you; and you shall take a great deal yes, as much as you can carry if only you will go away, and never be rash again." A second time I heard Captain Branscome's voice calling to me, demanding to know where I had disappeared.
"But they have proved their innocence; Harry gives me his word for them; and I do not think," said Plinny, "that you, ma'am, can have heard Captain Branscome's story without honouring him."
Whereat I, too, laughed. "Do you think it wrong of me, boy?" he asked abruptly. "Wrong, sir?" "He insists upon coming; and he pays me. He will never learn anything. By the way, Brooks, I have been inhospitable. An apple, for instance?" I declared untruthfully that I never ate apples; and perhaps the lie was pardonable, since by it I escaped eating Captain Branscome's Sunday dinner.
Marston, a complacent widower of some five-and-thirty years, and Branscome's fellow servant at the Admiralty. Hilton's attention was attracted to this man by the air of embarrassment with which Mrs. Branscome received his approaches.
It was not Captain Branscome's habit to speak sharply. I turned my attention to the card, conscious of a pair of red ears. The sky brightened, and within an hour, as we ran down upon it at something like eight knots, the Island began to take shape.
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