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"Ah! you're sane again," said the sailor, releasing him; "go, find it, lad, and blow till yer cheeks crack." Corrie was gone long before Jo had concluded even that short remark. In another second the harsh but loud sound of the shell rang over the hill-side. The settlers, black and white, immediately ceased their pursuit of the savages, and from every side they came trooping in by dozens.
This Rajah formed so high an opinion of Mr. Corrie, and of his ability to carry on the school efficiently, that he asked him to undertake its management. Mr. Corrie accepted the offer in the name of the Church Missionary Society, whose sanction to the measure he had obtained, and to it the school was made over by formal deed of gift in 1818.
Without more words he drew out his clasp-knife, and, ripping up the cuffs of the man's coat, laid bare his muscular arm. Meanwhile Alice untied his neckcloth, and Poopy tore open his Guernsey frock and exposed his broad brown chest. "We must warm that at once," said Corrie, beginning to take off his jacket, which he meant to spread over the seaman's breast.
With this answer they were fain to be content even Corrie failed to extract anything more definite from his friend. A prize crew was put on board the Foam, and the two vessels proceeded towards the harbour of Sandy Cove in company. Henry and his friends went in the Foam, but Gascoyne was detained a prisoner on board the Talisman.
Gascoyne knew that there were no wild animals of any kind on the island, and, therefore, at once jumped to the conclusion that this must needs be a human being of some sort. Drawing his knife he put it between his teeth, and creeping noiselessly towards the object in question laid his strong hand on the neck of the horrified Will Corrie.
Weeks passed away, but still the dark cloud of sorrow hung over Fort Chimo, for the merry young voice that was wont to awake the surrounding echoes was gone. The systematic search had now been given up, for every nook, every glen, and gorge, and corrie within fifteen miles of the spot where they had found the little sledge, had been searched again and again without success.
A few seconds sufficed to accomplish this, after which Gascoyne took him up in his arms as if he had been a child, carried him below, and laid him on one of the cabin lockers. Then, dragging a sheet off one of the beds, he sprang up on deck and waved it over the stern. "That's the signal for me," said Corrie, who had watched for it eagerly.
Here Corrie looked at his fair companion with a perplexed air. "What is that?" asked Alice, sympathetically. "It is that I must go without saying good-by to Uncle Ole. I am very sorry about it. It will look so ungrateful to him; but it can't be helped." "Why not?" inquired Alice. "If he has often said he wished you to go sea, would he not be delighted to hear that you are going?"
The two sea-dogs joined their enormous palms, and shook hands cordially. After these two had indulged in a little desultory conversation, Will Corrie, who, meanwhile, consulted with Alice in an undertone, brought them back to the point that was uppermost in his mind. "Now," said he, "it comes to this, we must not let Gascoyne be hanged."
In these nocturnal watchings he sometimes drove his little flock over the water of Corrie, for the fords were hardly ankle- deep; or permitted his sheep to cool themselves in the stream, and taste the grass which grew along the brink. All this time not a drop of rain fell, nor did a cloud appear in the sky.
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