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When he returned, Lulu and Cassie were kneeling beside the unconscious youth. "You have murdered him!" said Lulu, bitterly; and for a moment he felt something of the remorseful agony which had driven the criminal at his feet into a short oblivion. But very soon there was a slight reaction, and the father was the first to see it. "He has only fainted; bring some wine here!"
The mock concern in his face and voice would have been evident to Spurling without the lurking grin that accompanied his reply. An angry answer was on the tip of Jim's tongue. He choked it down. Soon the two craft were some distance apart. On the Cassie J. a man's head rose stealthily above the slide of the companionway. He fastened a steady gaze on the sloop.
"I am quite well," answered Ruth; "but I don't think I'll be able to come back with you to-day, Cassie." "Oh, what a pity, dear! Is your grandmother ill?" "No; she's quite well." "And your grandfather?" "They are both quite well. It is no, it's not nothing, for it is something; but I can't tell you. Please don't ask me." "You look very sad." "I feel miserable."
"But I wasn't told anything," cried Frank. "I never got any orders." "The little lady said you wasn't to be disturbed," said the captain, "and she took it on herself to order your staff to go ahead. I guess you'll find a pretty good head of steam already!" Frank ran to the side and called back his boat, giving the man five shillings to take a note at once to Cassie.
They could see the conqueror coming home in triumph. Then when he cried, "A-who, I say, a-who is in Gideon's ahmy to-day?" and the wailing chorus took up the note, "A-who!" it was too much even for frail Cassie, and, deserted by the solicitous sisters, in the words of Mam' Henry, "she broke a-loose, and faihly tuk de place."
Express proper compunction, or you can't sit next me at supper!" "Forgive me," begged Somers. "I'm sorry! I'll never do it again until after I sit next you at supper!" "More brains than I thought," I said to Cassie, who nodded, and then Vicky Van rose from her chair. "Take my place for a moment, Mr. Somers," she said, standing before him.
As they took the last of their gear aboard, a schooner with auxiliary power, apparently a fisherman, approached from the eastward. "The Cassie J.," read Spurling, deciphering the letters on the bow. "Somehow she looks natural, but I don't remember ever hearing that name before. Probably from Gloucester. Wonder what she wants of us."
He had no time for more than a few lines, but he could not go to sea without at least one word of farewell. They were cutting the anchor and were already under steerage way when Cassie came off herself in a launch and passed up a letter directed to the chief engineer.
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