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"I'm very glad," Santoris answered "And now would you and your friend like to take the launch back to your own yacht, or will you stay and dine with me?" Mr. Harland thought a moment. "I'm afraid we must go" he said, at last, with obvious reluctance "Captain Derrick went back with Brayle. You see, Catherine is not strong, and she has not been quite herself and we must not leave her alone.
They slackened speed before they came to the wharf, which just here by the station jutted out in a grey bastion surmounted by the minatory finger of a derrick, and some of them climbed out and put round baskets full of shining fish upon their heads, and, walking struttingly to brake their heavy boots on the slippery mud, followed a wet track up to the cinderpath.
Nobody, however, troubled himself any further about the matter, and in a few more minutes the men had set to work again heaving the rocks that had held up the first log out of the river with the derrick. It was not until supper was over, and he sat with his companions in the shanty, that Wheeler referred to the affair again. He looked at Nasmyth with a smile.
"I wish Lawrence could be more with Major Vaughan," she said; "for he is his father's favourite. You see he is such a good talker, and Derrick well, he is absorbed in his books; and then he has such extravagant notions about war, he must be a very uncongenial companion to the poor Major." I devoured turbot in wrathful silence. Freda glanced at me.
So sit down and state your grievance, and have done with it!" "You know very well what's wrong!" Derrick burst out fiercely, beginning to prowl to and fro. "Do I?" said Carlyon. He got up deliberately and intercepted Derrick. "Just stop tramping," he said, with sudden sternness, "and listen to me! You have your wound alone to thank for keeping you out of the worst mess you ever got into.
Besides, this other man; they would have questioned him, and he would have exposed himself." "That's true enough; that's what I told Heyton " began Derrick; in his eagerness, unwittingly letting slip Heyton's name, as he had the other evening let slip his own. He broke off and looked down, biting his lip.
They were too far from shore to trust a motor boat; and to use one of the big whaleboats under sail would take too long. The derrick swung the big boat overside, and she was lowered into the sea as lightly as though she were a featherweight. Meanwhile Ensign MacMasters was assigned to her command and he had the privilege of picking his crew to suit himself.
Gwen sat in the front-room and read her mother's remonstrance with her for absenting herself in this way and leaving her ladyship alone to contend with the arduous duty of entertaining her guests. "I think," it ran, "that you might at least remember that you are your father's daughter, even if you forget that Sir Spencer and Lady Derrick have come all the way from Nettisham in Shropshire."
The chunk of axes and ringing of hammers jarred through the roar of the stream, and he could see men clinging in mid-air to little stages slung about the piers, and moving among the pines below. A man in a ragged duck suit strode by him with an axe on his shoulder, and Wisbech half-diffidently ventured to inquire if he could tell where Derrick Nasmyth could be found.
Jack suspected from the excited tenor of their conversation that some great crisis was drawing near. He watched them working at the foot of the derrick, and soon had convictions concerning the nature of their labor.
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