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Chipperton that it would be impossible for the vessel to upset, as the great weight of ballast, freight, machinery, etc., in the lower part of her would always bring her deck up again, even if she rolled entirely over on her side, which, sometimes, she seemed as if she was going to do, but she always changed her mind just as we thought the thing was going to happen.
Rectus was right. The stingy hankerer after what Corny called four inches of dirt was his father. Mr. Chipperton came up to us and talked about the matter, and it was all as plain as daylight. When he found that Mr. Colbert was the father of Rectus, Mr.
And what could they have said to that, I would like to know?" he asked, looking around from one to another of us. "Give us a small dive, boss?" suggested Rectus. "That's so," said Mr. Chipperton, his face beaming into a broad smile; "I believe they would have said that very thing. You have hit it exactly. Let's go in to supper." The next day, Rectus and I, with Corny and Mrs.
Chipperton, "I had a bite just at that minute; and, besides, I really did not look for you on such a little boat. I had an idea you would come on something more respectable than that." "As if we should ever think of respectability at such a time!" said Mrs. Chipperton, with tears in her eyes. "As for you boys," said Mr.
Her soul still ached for her fallen queen. "I tell you what it is," said Mr. Chipperton, who had kept unaccountably quiet, so far. "It's a great pity that I did not know about this. I should have liked nothing better than to be down there when that usurper girl was standing on that throne, or rocking-chair, or whatever it was " "Oh, my dear!" said Mrs. Chipperton.
I whispered to Rectus that the house might have swelled, but he didn't get a chance to put in the suggestion. Rectus had to agree to all Mr. Chipperton said or, at least, he couldn't differ with him, for he didn't know anything on earth about the matter, and I guess he was glad enough when he got through. I'm sure I was.
"I think," said Mr. Chipperton, "he was the only man on that mean little vessel who had two suits of clothes. I don't know whether these were his weekday or his Sunday clothes. As for my own, they were so wet that I took them off the moment I got on board the schooner, and I never saw them again. I don't know what became of them, and, to tell the truth, I haven't thought of 'em.
"What's the matter?" "Oh, my dear!" exclaimed his wife. "How dreadful to leave you here! Shut up alone in this awful place! But to think we have found you!" "No trouble about that, I should say," remarked Mr. Chipperton, going over to the other side of the den after his hat. "You haven't been gone ten minutes, and it's a pretty straight road back here." "But how did it happen?" "Why did you stay?"
Rectus and I could hardly go in to supper, and we got through the meal in short order. We staid out on deck until after eleven o'clock, and Corny staid with us a good part of the time. At last, her father came down after her, for they were all going to bed. "This is a grand sight," said Mr. Chipperton. "I never saw anything to equal it in any transformation scene at a theatre.
Uncle Chipperton now began to praise Rectus, and he told what obligations the boy had put him under in Nassau, when he wrote to his father, and had that suit about the property stopped, and so relieved him Uncle Chipperton from cutting short his semi-tropical trip, and hurrying home to New York in the middle of winter. "But the suit isn't stopped," said Mr. Colbert.
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