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"Stop, stop, my good woman," said I; "at least let me give you a receipt." "Please, capting, I doesn't want one. Surely I can trust ye, an' I've had my heart nigh broke with bits o' paper this good day." "Well, but I am required by the rules of the Society to give a receipt for all sums received."
Heglantine, and will bring me five thousand pounds to her fortune." "Well, Tiny, this IS good luck indeed. I say, you'll be able to do a bill or two for ME then, hay? You won't forget an old friend?" "That I won't. I shall have a place at my board for you, Capting; and many's the time I shall 'ope to see you under that ma'ogany." "What will the French milliner say?
Just look at this letter found with it," and Tom pulled out of an inside pocket of his blouse a letter written in a most miserable scrawl, assuring some "Dear Capting" of "Here's my heart and here's my hand, For the man who fit for Dixy land." Monday passed in much the same manner.
Yer Society, capting, has saved me an' Tottie fro' starvation, an' so I've come for to give ye back the money ye sent me by Mr Stuart, for there's many a poor widder as'll need it more nor I do." So saying, she placed the money on the table, and I thanked her heartily, adding that I was glad to be able to congratulate her on her recent good fortune.
"Dat debbel Bill Moody, an' all him gang in port watch, say dey is goin' murder capting and go way in long-boat, and leab us drown on board!" "But won't the other men prevent them?" asked Kate anxiously. "Dey can't, missy! Dey is down in main-hold; an' Moody shut um under hatchway so dat dey can't get up."
So he did, and hid away the note in his despatch-box, and said 'The family all quite well, I hope? whereat Larcom shook his head. 'My mistress' he always called her so, and Lake the capting 'has been takin' on hoffle, last night, whatever come betwixt 'em.
"Hallo! nurse," he exclaimed, getting in and sitting down opposite to her; "why, surely it wasn't you, was it, that had such a narrow escape?" "Indeed it was, Capting Lee," replied Mrs Durby in a half whimper, for albeit a woman of strong character, she was not proof against such rough treatment as she had experienced that day. "Not hurt, I trust?" asked the Captain sympathetically.
An', durn me, that's the hoof-mark o' the mule as carried my Concheter. Capting Haynes! Kumrades! No use botherin' 'bout hyar any longer. Them we want to kum up wi' are goed north 'long this trail as leads by the river bank." Not another word is needed. The Rangers, keen of apprehension and quick to arrive at conclusions, at once perceive the justness of those come to by their old comrade.
Costigan tried to hold Bolton for a moment in genteel conversation, but the other surlily would not. "Don't bother me," said he; "go to your hown bed Capting, and don't keep honest men out of theirs." So the Captain tacked across the square and reached his own staircase, up which he stumbled with the worthy Huxter at his heels.
John stopped, looked over his shoulder, hesitated, and finally came back, with a rolling air of nautical indifference, and his hands thrust into his breeches pockets. "You know best, capting," said he; "but I think it a pity to let sich a dirty varmint go clear off, to dodge about in the bushes, and mayhap treat us to a poisoned arrow, or a spear thrust on the sly.
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