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Smiley," answered Chillis, standing on the bit of portico, with its dripping honeysuckle vines swinging in the wind; "but I'm better than nobody, I reckon, an' Smiley will hardly be home to-night. The bay's awful rough, an' ef I hadn't started over early, I shouldn't have ventured, neither. No, you needn't look for your husband to-night, ma'am." "Will you not come in by the fire, Mr.
Once at home, you can rest and nurse yourself." "So be it; an' God help us!" "Amen!" Chillis opened the door and looked out, placing a light first in the window. Then coming back for a basin, he waded out, bailed his boat, and, unfastening the chain, hauled it alongside the doorway. Mrs.
Chillis pleasure," returned Mrs. Smiley, looking straight ahead. "I teach Willie to have a great respect and love for him. It is the least we can do." Rumway noticed the inclusive we, and winced. "He is a strange man," he said, by way of answer. "A hero!" cried Mrs. Smiley firmly. "And never more so then when in whisky," added Rumway, ungenerously.
Still persevering, I wrote the names of several books on a slip of paper, and gave it to Chillis, the commissary, who wanted us hung when we first came, but who was, nevertheless, the kindest official of the prison; he likewise returned it, saying that none of the books named were to be found.
I displeased her with my vagabond ways, very likely her White husband, to whom she looked for better things. I couldn't work; I didn't take no interest in work, like other men." "O, Mr. Chillis! was not that a great mistake? Would not some kind of ambition have helped to fill up the blank in your life?"
But I knew, ef sech a thing should happen, an' you here alone, you would be very much frightened, an' perhaps lose your life a-tryin' to save it." "And you came up from the landing in all this storm to take care of me?" Mrs. Smiley exclaimed, with flushing cheeks. "I came all the way from Astoria to do it," answered Chillis, looking at the new-blown roses of her face.
Thus it was, that when Chillis brought Willie home from his long visit to the woods and streams, he saw the workmen busy on the Captain's house. He heard, too, about the excursion to the cape, and the inevitable comments upon Rumway's proceedings. But he said nothing about it to Mrs.
He set his teeth harder than ever, but it was all in vain, and directly the catastrophe came. His strength wavered, the boat veered round, a sudden gust and roll of water took it broadside, and over she went, keel up, more than a mile from land. But this was not the last of Joe Chillis not by any manner of means.
And the women of the place had all taken to making much of Joe Chillis, in consideration of his conduct during that memorable time, and of his sufferings in consequence; for he was laid up a long while afterward with that hurt in his shoulder, and the consequences of his exposure. Mrs.
Presently, Chillis sat up and looked about him. "Have you got me the oars?" he said to the mail-carrier. "You won't row any more to-night, Joe, I guess," the carrier answered, smiling grimly. "Look at your shoulder, man." "Shoulder be d d!" retorted Chillis. "Beg pardon, ladies; I didn't see you.
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