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Clem's done what he could, an' I'll be real glad to help him out.... Oh, I asked 'em to come an' set with us at the service S'norta too. I allowed we could manage to spare 'em the room." She dreamed again, launched on a sea of glory; then roused to her final triumph: "But that's only part, Luke. The best's comin'. Jim Beckonridge wants you to go down an' see him.
"I must go," she said; "the moon has set and dawn is near. Dying be so easy; living so hard. But live I will; I swear it, though theer's awnly my poor mad brain to shaw how." "Clem's son, mind. An' let me be the first to see it, for I feel't will be the gude pleasure of God I should." "An' you promise to say no word, whatever betides, an' whatever you hear?"
I went in, hearing Clem's voice in truculent protest from a large room on the first floor which had been called the room of Little Miss. I went to the door of this room. Clem and his bed were there. We had two physicians in Little Arcady, Old Doc and Young Doc.
He was wide awake and in a particularly happy humour. "Ban't you never comin' to bed? 'T is most marnin'," she said. "Just comin'. What a job! Look here twelve pages. I be surprised myself to think how blamed well I've got through wi' it. You doan't knaw what you can do till you try. I used to wonder at Clem's cleverness wi' a pen; but I be purty near so handy myself an' never guessed it!"
I heard a voice sing out, "A man overboard." I knew that it must have been Clem's, and I saw a spar and several other things thrown into the water. I do not know whether the life-buoy was let go. I did not see it. Turning round I struck out in the wake of the ship, but the gale just then coming with tremendous fury, drove her on fast away from me, and she speedily disappeared in the thick gloom.
They had, of course, met casually since Bob's marriage, and in progress of time the ferocious glances they were wont to exchange had softened into a grin of half-friendly recognition; Clem's behaviour at present was an unexpected revival of familiarity. When he had got over his shock Bob felt surprised, and expressed the feeling in a 'Well, what have you got to say for yourself?
'I wish at any rate you would let me explain myself, said Alaric, who felt that his patience was fast going, and who could hardly resist the temptation of seizing his companion by the throat, and punishing him on the spot for his iniquity. 'I don't prevent you, my dear fellow only remember this: I will not permit you to assert, without contradicting you, that I am responsible for Clem's fortune.
Hob, who had as much poetry as the tongs, professed to find pleasure in Dand's verses; Clem, who had no more religion than Claverhouse, nourished a heartfelt, at least an open-mouthed, admiration of Gib's prayers; and Dandie followed with relish the rise of Clem's fortunes. Indulgence followed hard on the heels of admiration.
It was not, perhaps, one of the merriest, but it served to divert Clem's thoughts, as well as mine, from our perilous position. "I wish that I could sing too," said Clem; "but I know I could not, if I was to try. I wonder you can, Jack." "Why? because I am sure that we shall be picked up before long, and so I see no reason why I should not try to be happy," I answered thoughtlessly.
Harried alien as she was, she would be welcomed with smiles, and I was glad for her sake and Clem's when I hurried home to dress for that first dinner with her. On my way across the lawn at six-thirty I picked a bunch of the newly opened yellow roses as a peace offering, should one be needed.
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