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Bruff gave his tail a wag, and butted the first-mate's leg, submitting afterwards to being patted in the most friendly manner. "Good dog that, young Strong." The mate did not wait to hear what was said in reply, but dived down into the hold, while Mark joined his father.
Bruff had received unusual consideration and unlimited tea, but even the most systematic question failed to elicit from her anything satisfactory.
It is, he thinks, clearly necessary that a gentleman possessed of the average allowance of common sense, should accompany Miss Verinder to the scene of, what we will venture to call, the proposed exhibition. For want of a better escort, Mr. Bruff himself will be that gentleman. So here is poor Miss Verinder provided with two "chaperones."
Come along, and keep well in among the trees. Bruff, to heel, sir! You, Jimpny, lead the monkey." "Yes, Mr Mark, sir; but hadn't I better get a gun?" "Yes, of course," cried Mark eagerly, and together they ran into the officers' quarters, to come forth again, armed to the teeth, to where the ladies were waiting on the sand. "Where is Mrs O'Halloran?" cried Mark, for she had disappeared.
Mr Morgan was kneeling down by a pool doing something to the dog, while the major and Gregory looked on. "I was right," said Small; "they have shot your dog, Mr Mark." At that moment Bruff caught sight of his master, and uttering a loud bark, he started off from where he stood and came limping on three legs towards Mark, holding his right fore-paw in the air and whimpering piteously.
"That will do," said the captain coldly. "Obey orders, and prove that you are worthy of what I have done, and what I am going to do. I don't like professions." The captain walked away, and the stowaway stood looking after him, while Bruff walked up and smelled him suspiciously. "Nobody don't seem to believe in me," said the man in a discontented tone of voice.
"Did you see the savages, sir?" said Mark in self-defence. "Well, no, but I saw the smoke of their fire; and here, Bruff, fetch him out, boy," he continued, breaking off his speech, and with cocked gun he parted the twigs and fronds cautiously as he stepped down into the hollow from which Mark had fled.
"Here! you've got to come home," cried Billy, making a dash at the monkey's legs, but he started back as quickly as he went forward, for Bruff sprang up, and, twitching his ears, burst into a furious fit of barking, while Jack got behind him and chattered his defiance.
Billy Widgeon, after rubbing his legs and bathing his feet first in the sea and then in the warm sand, volunteered to climb a cocoa-nut tree and get down some fruit; the ladies went to a pool in the rocks to try and perform something in the way of a morning toilet; and the major turned chef and cooked the shell-fish, and opened some tins of preserved meat and biscuit; Mark being the successful discoverer of a spring as he went in search of Bruff, to find him drinking thereof.
I was shown into the library to wait too. Mr. Bruff looked surprised to see me. He is the family solicitor, and we had met more than once, on previous occasions, under Lady Verinder's roof. A man, I grieve to say, grown old and grizzled in the service of the world.
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