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Dave was very tired and Hiram pretty sleepy, when, at three o'clock in the morning, the machine came to rest on a little reed-covered island in the center of a swampy stretch. "We may stay here for several days, I don't know exactly how long," the young aviator told his assistant. "You don't suppose that the Dawsons and the Drifter are anywhere near here, do you?" inquired Hiram.
It was a tacitly understood thing in the surgeon's family that whenever Sir Michael proposed, the governess would quietly accept him; and, indeed, the simple Dawsons would have thought it something more than madness in a penniless girl to reject such an offer.
Roy 'ud kill us if he could; but he can't force us on to Peckaby's rubbish. We defy him to't." In point of defying Roy, the Dawsons had done that long ago. There was open warfare between them, and skirmishes took place occasionally. The first act of Roy, after it was known that Lionel was disinherited, had been to discharge old Dawson and his sons from work.
Aileen was fetched back to her seat, and then Starlight went off to his friends at the other end of the room, and was chaffed for flirting with a regular currency lass by one of the Dawsons. 'I admire his taste, says the Commissioner. 'I really think she's the prettiest girl in the room if she was well dressed and had a little more animation. I wonder who she is? What's her name, Lascelles?
Aghadoe Abbey was dear to us as flesh and blood. Was it possible that it could pass away from us into the possession of the Dawsons? Why, I would a thousand times rather that fire had it and that it should be consumed to ashes.
"You two," continued Dawson to the men had Dave and Hiram in charge, "bring the boys along." "Where to?" was asked. "Just follow us," was the surly response. "Give a hand, Jerry." The two Dawsons lifted the bundle at their feet and started from the room. There were sounds as if some one was pounding on the door at the front of the building. The Dawsons, however, did not go that way.
"Can't Jerry Dawson tell you anything about him?" asked Dave. "No." "For a very good reason." "And what is at?" "Dawsons left last night." "Left left the meet?" exclaimed Dave in surprise. "Yes, bag and baggage." "That puzzles me," said Dave. "It baffles us," observed the revenue officer, "for they have left no clew to their future whereabouts." "Won't Jerry's employer tell you?"
"Nothing breeds rebellion like oppression. You are too fond of oppression, Roy, and Mr. Verner knows it." "They be a idle, poaching, good-for-nothing lot, them Dawsons," pursued Roy. "And now that they be behind-hand with their rent, it is a glorious opportunity to get rid of 'em. I'd turn 'em into the road, without a bed to lie on, this very night!"
"I doubt if Hiram could manage the machine I even doubt with something wrong with it, as there surely was, if he could keep it adrift," decided Dave. "What then?" The young aviator pictured Hiram and the machine in a tangle among the trees, or dropping upset among the rocks. He had not seen anything of the Dawsons or the Drifter since he had fallen into the water of the bay.
I could not see how my grandmother was taking it, since she sat at the same side of the room as I did; but I was glad that Mr. Dawson kept my grandfather in conversation so that he could not see what was going on, for I felt sure that however much he might wish to be civil to the Dawsons, he could not have endured Richard Dawson's attentions to me, since he was very proud.
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