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Archie kept on to the house, and the captain, after another sweep around, turned on his heel and reentered the sitting-room. "Green!" "Yes, captain." The surfman was on his feet in an instant, his ears wide open. "I wish you and Fogarty would look over those new Costons and see if they're all right.
Coston" to her and it had always been "Mr. Coston" to Tom, and it was now "your Honor" or "judge" to the dispenser of justice. For though the owner of Oak Hill lived within a few miles of the tumble-down remnant that sheltered the Costons; and though he had fifty servants to their one, or half a one and broad acres in proportion, to say nothing of flocks and herds St.
Twice he had tried to wedge himself between the First Officer and the rail and twice had been pushed back the last time with a swing that landed him against a pile of steamer chairs. All this time the fog-horn had kept up its monotonous din, the Costons flaring at intervals.
Along this beach, now stopping to get their breath, now slanting the brim of their sou'westers to escape the slash of the sand and spray, strode Tod and Polhemus, their eyes on and beyond the tumbling surf, their ears open to every unusual sound, their Costons buttoned tight under their coats to keep them from the wet.
Their reception at Wesley, the ancestral home of the Costons, although it was late at night when they arrived, was none the less joyous. Peggy was the first to welcome the invalid, and Tom was not far behind. "Give her to me, St. George," bubbled Peggy, enfolding the girl in her arms. "You blessed thing! Oh, how glad I am to get hold of you!
An indefinable fear now swept through the vessel. The doubters and scoffers from the smoking-room who stood huddled together near the forward companion-way talked in whispers. The slant of the deck they argued might be due to a shift of the cargo a situation serious, but not dangerous but why burn Costons?
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