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All the captain's gayety was gone, and his face wore a pained, troubled look. "But she did reach home in safety at last?" he said, inquiringly. "Oh, yes; all right except for a wetting, which probably did her no harm. But now maybe I'm telling tales out of school," he added, with a laugh. "I shouldn't like to get the little girl into trouble, so I hope you'll not be too hard on her, capt'n.
Put it in a cabbage leaf, Liza." Thus, with his basket on his arm and his pipe in his mouth, Pete passed from stall to stall, chatting, laughing, bargaining, buying, shouting his salutations over the general hum and hubbub, as he ploughed his way through the crowd, but listening intently watching eagerly, casting out grapples to catch the anchor he had lost, and feeling all the time that if any eye showed sign of knowledge, if any one began with "Capt'n, I can tell you where she is," he must leap on the man like a tiger, and strangle the revelation in his throat.
"On second thoughts," suggested I, "perhaps, I had better see her first, and prepare her for meeting you! What say you?" "Jest as you like, capt'n. P'raps it mout be the better way." "Bide behind the waggon, then! Stay there till I give you a signal to come forth." Obedient to the injunction, my companion trotted back, and disappeared behind the white tilt.
"Well, I'll risk it," he said, at length; "you'll find him at 17, Beaufort Street, Bow." The younger woman sprang excitedly to her feet, but Mrs. Tipping, eyeing the young man with a pair of shrewd, small eyes, kept her seat. "And while we're going, how do we know the capt'n won't come back and go off with the ship?" she enquired. Fraser hesitated.
Then he tried to ask the question that was slipping off his tongue, but dared not, and only stammered awkwardly "Any news to-night, Mr. Quay le?" "Is it yourself, Capt'n? If you've none, I've none. It's independent young rovers like you for newses, not poor ould chaps tied to the harbour-post same as a ship's cable. I was hearing you, though. You'd a power of music in the everin' yonder.
"'Deed, man!" said Cæsar. "The doctor ordered it. You heard him yourself, grandfather." "Well, that's true, too," said Cæsar. The young man closed his long note-book and backed into a throng of women who had come up to the porch. "Of course, if you say so, Capt'n Quilliam " "I do say so," shouted Pete; and the reporter disappeared.
Something wrong, with the ould man, they're telling me. But boy, veen, what's come of your hat at all?" "My hat?" said Pete, groping about his head. "Oh, my hat? Blown off on the pier, of coorse." "'Deed, man! Not much wind either. You'll be for home and the young wife, eh, Capt'n?" "Must be," said Pete, with an empty laugh.
"An' why are you makin' me envious this way?" said Donovan crossly. "Donovan, you and me's been friends off an' on these ten years, ever since th' commodore bought th' Laura. Well, says he t' me 'Capt'n, we forgot that Mr. Donovan was in th' room at th' time o' th' discovery.
"I laid to an' dhruv like steam to the Colonel's house before the Colonel was there, an' she screamed an' I thought she was goin' off. Out comes the ayah, saying all sorts av things about the Capt'n havin' come for the kit an' gone to the station. "'Take out the luggage, you divil, sez I, 'or I'll murther you!
"But the Capt'n never said a single wurrd. He choked where he stud, an' thin he went into his thrap widout sayin' good-night, an' I wint back to barricks." "And then?" said Ortheris and I together. "That was all," said Mulvaney, "niver another word did I hear av the whole thing. All I know was that there was no e-vasion, an' that was fwhat I wanted.
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