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The hope had flown and he was able to breathe again, though breathing seemed to hurt. "Yes, ma'am. I'll give up newspaper reporting. I don't like New York." "But, Dickie your words? I'd like to see something you've written." Dickie's hand went to an inner pocket. "I wanted you to see this, Sheila," His eyes were lowered to hide a flaming pride. "My poems." Sheila felt a shock of dread.
To Dickie's great surprise a startling change had come over the pasture. The weather had cleared while he slept and the stars twinkled in the heavens above him. And the hillside pasture was white with a thick blanket of snow. It was cold, too much colder than it had been when Dickie went to sleep.
He stood in front of Dickie, took off his straw hat and waved it in the cow's face. She stood still. "Run back to the others, Dickie," said Ambrose quietly, and, Dickie's chubby legs recovering power of movement, she toddled quickly off, strewing the ground with daisies as she went.
"I don't know how sweet and lovely you can be, Dickie, when you're lit up, but I guess you were awful sweet. Anyway, if you didn't say anything or do anything to scare her, you don't deserve a kickin'. But, just the same, I've a mind to turn you out of Millings." This time, Dickie's look was not ironical. It was terrified. "Oh, Poppa, say! I'll try not to do it again."
To every man his passion and his dream: to Sylvester Hudson, his Aura. More than wife or child, he loved his bar. It was a fetish, an idol. To Sheila's fancy Dickie suddenly appeared the sacrifice. Dickie's room in The Aura Hotel was fitted in between the Men's Lavatory and the Linen Room. It smelt of soiled linen and defective plumbing.
And when the bookseller made inquiries after the boy, Leonard, in the fulness of his heart, replied freely and in detail nay, he was so happy in the little man's well-doing, that he was by no means disconcerted even by a full encounter of Mrs. Harvey Anderson in the street, but answered all her inquiries, in entire oblivion of all but the general rejoicing in little Dickie's wonderful escape.
Until the party landed at least, he was in command of the expedition. And orders must be obeyed. "You'll have to do as I say," he concluded. "Whether you like it or not." Dickie's lip curled and she turned her head away to hide her face. "All right," she answered. "I'll stay on the Richard." To herself, she added: "But I'll use my own judgment when it comes to running away."
Instead, he had to wander far through the woods at night, thankful to pick up a bit here and there as best he might. On those crisp, cold nights he had to scamper fast in order to keep warm. And often, when dawn came, he crept home still hungry. At last Dickie's night runs lapped well over into the day. For his search for food became more and more disappointing.
An iron stove near by glowed with red sides and a round red mouth. It gave a flush to Dickie's pale face. Sheila thought she had never seen such a wistful and untidy lad. Yet, poor Dickie at the moment appeared to himself rather a dashing and heroic figure. He had certainly shown courage and had done his deed with jauntiness.
"I'm going to send a radio to all my boats within a thirty-mile radius of the island to reinforce the fleet and mix it with Mascola off the Hell-Hole Isthmus on the north side. While they're busy on that side, it will leave us a clear field on the other." Dickie's eyes opened wide at his words. As they moved away together in the direction of the cannery, she cried: "I don't understand at all.
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