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But never mind. Pick up the best you can." He smiled again. "Just a little bit dusty out here, eh, Arthur?" "That's what it is, Cap'n," replied Arthur, mollified by Dan's words of regret. The steward looked at Dan admiringly.
It made no odds to me then that the air blew warm off the land from scented hay-ricks, that the moon hung like some exhumed jewel in the sky, that all the perfect night was widening into dawn. I saw and felt nothing but the wretchedness that must break one day on Dan's head. Should I warn him? I couldn't do that. And what then?
Neither of them was favoring Midshipman Dalzell with as much as a thought. "Why on earth is it that all girls are so tricky?" Dan asked himself savagely, taking it for granted that all girls are "tricky" where admirers are concerned. "Oh, my, what a laugh Davy will have over me, when he hears!" was Dan's next bitter thought, as he strode along.
Straight down he shot and the line broke. My brother's sympathy now was as sincere as Captain Dan's misery. I asked R. C. to take the rod and see if he could do better. "Not much!" he replied. "When you get one, then I'll try. Stay with 'em, now!" Not improbably I would have stayed out until the tuna quit if that had taken all night.
The examinations over, Dave felt reasonably safe. But Dan's gloom deepened, for he was sure he had failed in "skinny," as the boys termed chemistry and physics. So it was that when the grades were posted Dave scanned the D's in the list of third classmen who had passed. Dan, on the other hand, turned instantly to what he termed the "bust list." "Why, why, I'm not there!" he muttered.
He could not afford to watch the cabin every night, and he thought it would be a good plan to give Bob and his friend a lesson they would not forget. That the prowlers had come there to force an entrance into the cabin, was quickly made plain to even Dan's dull comprehension.
"Hold him a second longer," he called, and spread an armful of cotton waste on the vise bench. Dan laid Larry on the bench. He straightened his own great body for a moment, then sat down on the floor and cried. Neville, pretending not to see Dan's distress, brought more waste. As he placed it beneath his head Larry groaned.
But I believe they're a sort of greyish-blue." "Not an uncommon colour for eyes," said Eunice, "but rather peculiar for hair." They got to making fun of the picture, and Dan told them about Alice and her family; the father left them at the table, and then came back with word from Dan's mother that she was ready to see him.
Their new friend, who knew his man so well, was best fitted for the dangerous enterprise. They wished him joy of it, and would be content to share its fruits. To Dan's astonishment, they told him that Basil was hiding across the Sound in his own ancestral village. "Heart o' me!" he exclaimed, "he is mine! Yon place is filled with my own kith and kin. The fox is in a very ring of dogs."
Following Dan's example and setting aside all their horror and repugnance as they saw the reptile gliding back slowly into the river, they acted as if moved by the same set of muscles, and threw themselves upon the long lithe creature. "Now then, lads, take a good grip of him," cried Dan, "and we'll run him up the bank as far as we can. Ugh!"
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