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But, no horse will be necessary; the whale-boat is at the wharf, and is ready for use, at any moment." "True, I had forgotten the whale-boat. If that is home, the doctor might be brought across at a reasonable rate; especially if Gar'ner will volunteer. I dare say Daggett's effects will pay the bill for attendance, since they have answered, as yet, to meet the Widow White's charges.
Pop Daggett's jaw sagged, betraying a cavernous expanse of sparsely-toothed gums. "Joe Bloss!" he ejaculated. "My land! I hope you ain't traveled far fur that. If so, yuh sure got yore trouble for yore pains. Why, man alive! Joe Bloss ain't been nigh the Shoe-Bar for close on to a year." Stratton's eyes narrowed. "A year?" he repeated curtly. "Where's he gone?" "You got me.
All men like to deal in that which makes them of importance; and the possession of his secrets had just the effect on Daggett's mind that was necessary to render him boastful.
Somebody has been here, and that within a year or two; and he has picked up a cargo, too, depend on't." As all this merely corresponded with Daggett's account of the place, Roswell felt no surprise; on the contrary, he saw in it a confirmation of all that Daggett had stated, and as furnishing so much the more reason to hope for a successful termination to the voyage in all its parts.
"I don't know," said Patty slowly, as if considering; "yes, I think I'm pretty smart in some ways, and in other ways I'm as stupid as an owl." "Well, you must be pretty smart, because you haven't had to borrow anything over here yet." "But I wouldn't borrow anything here, anyway, Miss Daggett; you specially asked me not to." Miss Daggett's old wrinkled face broke into a smile.
But Roswell did not see this quite as distinctly as he saw the fact that Daggett's detentions and indirect appeals to his better feelings had involved him in all these difficulties. Still, while thus he felt, he made no complaint. All hope of getting north that season now depended on the field-ice's drifting away from the Great Bay before it got fairly frozen in.
"Oh, I guess Abby'd better come right along with me," put in Lois briskly ... "and that reminds me, do you want to pay something down on that order? As a general thing, where I take a big order " "Of course I'd forgotten; I always prefer to pay in advance." The girl opened the tall desk and producing a roll of bills told off the price of her order into Miss Daggett's hand.
Unwelcome, only because Patty was so busy, otherwise she would have been glad of a summons to the house next-door, for she had taken a decided fancy to her erratic neighbour. Determining she would return quickly, and smiling to herself as she thought that probably she would be asked to do so, she ran over to Miss Daggett's.
There were considerations of prudence, therefore, that should not be neglected, connected with the continuance of the supplies and the means of subsistence. In one respect the party now on the island had been gainers by the terrible losses it had sustained in Daggett's crew.
Lady Vere de Vere, afraid of Fargo and movie crowds, but trusting in her itinerant castle, the bug, was curled in Milt Daggett's ulster, in the bottom of the car. She twinkled her whiskers at Claire, and purred to a stroking hand. With the excitement of one trying to find the address of a friend in a strange land Claire looked over the audience when the lights came on before the vaudeville.
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