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Updated: May 14, 2025
I ran into the house. Old Margot was beside herself with fear she had seen also. I ran through the hall and saw old Louis upstairs with the burning cross. I followed. He went into Monsieur's room. When I got to the door" she paused, trembling, for she saw Charley's reproving eyes upon her "I saw him with the cross with the cross raised over Monsieur."
The Mexicans laughed, and shrugged their shoulders; and one of them, in a very impudent fashion, made a derisive answer in Spanish. Charley's father colored, and took an angry step forward; but a miner stopped him. "Go easy, stranger," he said. "This is a free land." He thrust his hand into his pocket, and actually extended to Mr. Adams two dollars. "Carry your trunk yourself," he said.
And so they went off to their respective chambers. All further conversation in the drawing-room was forbidden for that night. Mrs. Woodward would have willingly postponed the reading of Charley's story so as to enable Katie to go to bed after the accident, had she been able to do so.
Across her pilot house was a gilt sign reading "Georgia" and on her paddle box, as she swung around, appeared another "Georgia," in large black letters. Charley gazed in dismay, for every inch of her seemed occupied by passengers. The upper deck and middle deck and lower deck appeared full of figures, with heads craning to gaze. "That's the boat," quoth a voice at Charley's elbow.
Dutch or German neighbors had called him Millerd by some confusion with other names having a similar termination, and as he was tolerably illiterate, and rarely wrote his name, the change came to be accepted. A new schoolmaster who spelled it Millerd in the copy-book of Charley's grandfather fixed the orthography and pronunciation in the new form.
The village was small and dirty, squatting here amidst bananas and palms and sugar-cane, its people the same kind as at Chagres. There seemed to be enough gold seekers here, now, to fill every hut to overflowing. Adams. "It looks as though Maria had found something for us," said Charley's father, as they followed Maria.
She died a short time before the date set for their marriage, and Charles never recovered from the blow. "I married Dorothy's sister, Virginia. Virginia did not in the least resemble her sister, but our eldest daughter was strikingly like her dead aunt. We called her Dorothy, and Charles was devoted to her. Dolly, as we called her, was always 'Uncle Charley's girl.
When they understood Charley's position at home, and his need of earning money to help his father, and especially when they realized what the present opportunity meant to Charley in the way of personal happiness, they were more than willing to release him from further school duties. So it came about that on the following day Charley and Lew took the train back to Oakdale.
Two uninhabited islands had been visited; a third was sighted. Charley's heart beat high in anticipation of finding him whom he sought. Yet, why he expected to find Jack there more than at any other place he could not tell.
"'Tis a cousin of Miss Vye's, come to take Charley's place from curiosity. He was obliged to go and look for the heath-croppers that have got into the meads, and I agreed to take his place, as he knew he couldn't come back here again tonight. I know the part as well as he."
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