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Updated: June 7, 2025
He could shut his eyes and see the old log house behind its leafy screen of alder and maple at the Cove's head. The rosebushes before it were laden with bloom now. At his hand were the gray cliffs backed by grassy patches, running away inland to virgin forest. He felt dispossessed of those noble acres.
'What! father's been a saying something more again me, has he? cried the injured innocent. 'Oh, what a hard thing it is that when a cove has once gone a little wrong, a cove's own father should be always a throwing it in his face behind his back! It's enough, cried Rob, resorting to his coat-cuff in anguish of spirit, 'to make a cove go and do something, out of spite!
No one can observe it there, for the vehicle is built upon intelligent principles. The cabman, it is true, can overlook you through a hole in the roof. This cabman did so, and chuckled in his cravat. 'If that cove's wife could see him huddup, then! said the cabman.
'Driving off a mob of cattle on the quiet I've known happen once or twice; but I'm dashed if ever I heard tell of putting up duffing improvements of a superior class on a cove's run and clearing off with a thousand drafted cattle, all quiet and regular, and him pottering about his home-station and never "dropping" to it no more than if he was in Sydney.
"You arn't the king of the Cannibal Islands, as I know of, to cut a cove's head off?" "No; but if a poor man's prayer can bring God's curse down upon a traitor's head it may stay on his rascally shoulders till it rots." "If ifs and ans were pots and pans. Look at Shechem Isaacs, that sold penknives in the street six months ago, now a-riding in his own carriage, all along of turning sweater.
An instant afterwards, though, he burst out laughing, in spite of himself, as 'The Battersea Bantam, who had been ineffectually dancing round Tregarva like a gamecock spurring at a bull, turned off with a voice of ineffable disgust, 'That big cove's a yokel; ta'nt creditable to waste science on him.
Then a kind of queer feeling came over me, and I put down my hand and felt his face. It was as cold as lead. The cove's dead, mate, I said. "The servant struck a match, and we had a look at my passenger. He was a young, good-looking fellow, but his face wore an expression of pain, and his jaw hung down. He was evidently not only dead, but had been dead some time.
On the ebb it'll snake you out into the breakers sure as I'm settin' here tellin' you. The cove's all right and good and safe; but keep away from the narrer part of the crick."
'Leave ill alone! said Barndale, pulling solemnly away at his pipe. 'I can't, answered Leland. 'That cove's likelier to murder her than not, if he hasn't got me to murder. Look here, Billy, I'll marry the girl. 'Don't be a fool, said Barndale. 'What do you know about the girl? 'Lots, answered the imperturbable James. 'Highly connected. Lots of tin. Character irreproachable.
Smoke lifted from its stone chimney. MacRae smiled reminiscently at this and moved on. His objective lay at the Cove's head, on the little creek which came whispering down from the high land behind.
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