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Updated: June 12, 2025
"You understand, Bob; I h'ist that signal, as it might be to-morrow, and I keep her flyin' night and day. And so long as you see her flyin', you says, 'Cap'n's all right so far! you says.
Wilks was aboard ship with 'im for a very long time. O' course, he oughtn't to ha' done it, but the cap'n's a masterful man, an' I can quite understand Mr. Wilks givin' way; I dessay I should myself if I'd been in 'is place he's all 'art, is Mr. Wilks no 'ead." "It's a good job for you you're an old man, Sam," said Mr. Nugent. "I can hardly believe it of you, Sam," said Miss Nugent.
Neither me nor the Cap'n's goin' to hurt you a mite. We like little girls, both of us do. Now you come and tell me about it." Mary-'Gusta's sobs ceased. She looked at the speaker doubtfully. "Come, don't be scared," begged Zoeth. "We're goin' to be good friends to you. We knew your father and he thought everything of us. You ain't goin' to be afraid of folks that was your Pa's chums.
"Run you down to the cap'n's lodgings," said he, handing me the key, "an' tell him to go straight an' unlock the cupboard in the cornder the one wi' the toolips painted over the door. You know it? Well, say that on the second shelf he'll find a small bagful o' money he needn't stay to count it an' 'pon the same shelf, right back in the cornder, a roll o' papers.
I said one would be quite sufficient for the present, and we three chatted until Mrs. Dean came over and monopolized the chat. "Don't go, Roscoe," protested the matron. "The Cap'n's here and he'll want to talk to you. He's dreadful interested in you just now. Don't talk about nobody else, scurcely. You set still and I'll go fetch him." But I refused to "set."
"I understood he told the minister that none o' the heathen was wuth it that ever he see," replied Miranda in a pinless voice at last. "Mr. Calvinn only laughed; he knows the Cap'n's ways. But I shouldn't thought Asaph Ball would have let his hired help set out and ask company to tea just four weeks from the day his only sister was laid away. 'T wa'n't feelin'."
"That night they was there to tea, Mis' Calvinn was praising up a handsome flowered china bowl that was on the table, with some new kind of a fancy jelly in it, and the Cap'n told her to take it along when she went home, if she wanted to, speakin' right out thoughtless, as men do; and that Mis' French chirped up, 'Yes, I'm glad; you ought to have somethin' to remember the cap'n's sister by, says she.
I ejaculated. "Good! Now, do you happen to know where those despatches are to be found?" "No, sir; that I don't," answered Hoard. "I've never been abaft the mainmast until to-day, if you'll believe me; and I don't even know the cap'n's name. But I expect his despatches will be in his cabin, along with any other papers of value that he may have had in his possession."
But a stranger might happen by an' see somethin' temptin' 'mongst the cap'n's belongings. An' so good-night to you, little Take-a-Stitch, an' pleasant dreams."
"Here's where I take a schooner an' a free lunch sometimes," he remarked confidentially. The tall young lady's brown eyes danced as she glanced down at the small person of the Major. "And how old are you, Major?" she inquired. "Ha'f pas' seven, the Cap'n an' Old G. A. R., they say." "The Captain? Old G. A. R.?" "Uh, huh! The Cap'n's a good 'un, he is.
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