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"Both, sir." "You will greatly oblige me, then, Mr. Goodfellow always with Captain Branscome's leave by returning to the boat and fetching your auger; if possible, without attracting the ladies' observation. With this instead of returning direct to us, you will make your way to the left, towards the head of the beach, keeping well under the rocks, which will serve you from landward.
He picked up a pair of compasses, spread them out on the paper of figures before him, and looked up again with a sly, silly smile. "You won't guess what I'm doing?" he challenged. "No." "I'm studyin' navigation. Cap'n Branscome's larnin' it to me.
Then suddenly at, maybe, two hundred yards' distance I saw him take another pace backwards and slip away among the trees. "He has pretended not to see me." At any rate he had given me a pretty good hint to make myself scarce unless I wished to incur Captain Branscome's wrath.
He said this with a smile which disarmed all suspicion. In fact, it was impossible to take offence with the man." But at this point Plinny, frightened perhaps at the warnings of apoplexy in Captain Branscome's face, laid a hand gently on Miss Belcher's arm. "Are we treating our good friend quite fairly?" she asked. Miss Belcher glanced at her and broke into a ringing laugh. "You dear creature!
Some people has luck an' some has heads; an' with a head on my shoulders same as I had at your age, I'd be Prime Minister an' Lord Mayor of Lunnon rolled into one, by crum!" He reached across for Captain Branscome's sextant, and held it between his shaking hands.
But the pride above all prides was Captain Branscome's. After many years he trod a deck again, commander of his own ship; and the bearing of the man was that of a prince restored after long exile to his kingdom.
I brought you here because I cannot be in two places at once, and it was necessary to keep both parties under my eye. Having brought you, I am bound to protect you; but my main business here, and yours or at any rate Captain Branscome's is to punish." "To punish? But why to punish?" Dr. Beauregard hesitated, with a glance at Plinny and at me, who stood beside her.
"Jack," said Miss Belcher, with a jerk of her thumb towards the Captain, "I'll lay you two to one in guineas, that our news is more important than yours!" "I take you," said Mr. Rogers. "It will save time if we tell it while you're eating, and will save you the trouble of talking with your mouth full." Once or twice, while she abridged Captain Branscome's narrative, Mr.
"If he means to kill them, I ought to carry them warning." "He will not kill them till to-night," she answered, shaking her head. "It is always at night-time, when they are at supper. There is no hurry, little boy; but he will sar-tain-ly kill them, all the same." I turned my head, preparing to run, for I heard Captain Branscome's voice in the verandah, calling my name.
Now, this, no doubt, was extremely childish, even wickedly foolish, and the more foolish, perhaps, because a few minutes ago I would have given all I possessed, including my prospective share in the treasure, for Captain Branscome's protection. But somehow, since sighting the island, I had lost hold of myself, and my temper seemed to be running all askew.
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