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He besought the captain with tears of outraged dignity to resume his guardianship of the town; but the old warrior merely rubbed his nose and spoke of rheumatism. The outrages occurred only at intervals, and ceased altogether during the college terms, when Dick Cludde was absent, so that we were not far wrong in our inference that he was the fount and origin of the deeds of lawlessness.
I own I was loath to let her go, but 'twas clear that Cludde would get hold of her if she remained in the country, and there was no better way to avoid that. ''Twill not be for long, uncle, she says when I bid her good-by.
I am going to talk to you," she said. And talk to me she did, in a way that mightily surprised me. "Do you think I don't see through you, Mr. Bold?" she said. "You are most desperately jealous of Mr. Cludde; you know you are; and of every other man in the room; and you show it, which is a very, very silly thing to do. Oh, don't speak; you would only tell me stories. Listen to me.
You defy us, eh?" and with every question the bully twisted my arm till I almost screamed with the pain. "Don't be a ninny," says Cludde. "What's a few apples! Why, old Ellery's trees are loaded with 'em." Vetch's grip somewhat relaxed while Cludde was speaking, and, seizing the opportunity, I wrenched my arm away with a sudden movement and took to my heels.
"Save me! Save me from these monsters!" I started forward, scarce believing my eyes. In the pinched, haggard features of the man who was lashed to the tree I recognized my old enemy, my whilom schoolfellow, Dick Cludde. "Save me! Save me!" he cried again and again. "For God's sake, loose him!" I cried, turning to the negro.
The horses were draught horses, and did not promise good speed, but we had no others; and I cried to the men to unyoke the teams, while I ran to the kitchen for a weapon. I seized a couple of the buccaneers' cutlasses, and hastening back, gave one to Cludde.
Cludde insisted on her accepting from him the five hundred dollars which I had promised Noah for his life, and she handed it back as a present for the negro. We were talking about all these strange things that had happened, when suddenly we heard a commotion at the head of the column.
Cludde, when I remind you that the owner of the estate had fled from her lawfully-appointed guardian, aided and abetted in her flight, I doubt not, by this upstart himself. I am ready to account for my administration of the property to Sir Richard Cludde, and to no one else, and I say you have no right to call in question anything I may have done in his name."
"Out of the way, I say; I will crop his ears, the cur!" Burt Mytton, the fellow who had me by the neck, and some others of the band, were not for pushing things to such extremities. They closed about to protect me, and even Dick Cludde caught Vetch's arm and expostulated with him.
Cludde?" "If Mr. Bold will apologize," says Simpson, after a glance at his principal. "I am ready when Mr. Cludde is," I said bluntly. And so we set-to again. This time I no longer pursued the same purely defensive tactics, and before many passes had been exchanged I saw an opening for my botte, took instant advantage of it, and sent his sword spinning from his hand.
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