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This was a new view to Mr. McCunn. "I just once knew a paper-maker," he observed reflectively, "They called him Tosh. He drank a bit." "Well, I don't drink," said the other. "I'm a paper-maker, but that's for my bread and butter. Some day for my own sake I may be a poet." "Have you published anything?" The eager admiration in Dickson's tone gratified Mr. Heritage.
Th' Leetle Woman!" and he plunged madly out through the door, followed by every other man in the house. Thure and Bud were close behind the last man. The moment they were outside their eyes caught the red glow of the fire shining wickedly through the openings between the pine trees that surrounded Dickson's little cabin, and raced madly toward it.
A glance convinced Dickson that the work was French, a literature which did not interest him. He knew little of the tongue and suspected it of impropriety. Another guest entered and took the chair opposite the bookish young man. He was also young not more than thirty-three and to Dickson's eye was the kind of person he would have liked to resemble.
But he was not happy, and when his wife pointed at him, and the meeting turned to look, he suddenly took a dive head-foremost into the crowd about him; so that when the laughter and horse-play that followed had subsided, it was seen that Mr. Tom Dickson's place knew him no more. Meanwhile Mrs. Dickson stood grinning grinning wide and visibly.
"But I'm thinking it might have been a seagull." "You're a fool," said the Poet rudely. The return was a melancholy business, compared to the bright speed of the outward journey. Dickson's mind was a chaos of feelings, all of them unpleasant. He had run up against something which he violently, blindly detested, and the trouble was that he could not tell why.
After a hasty, but not a short journey, the knight alighted at Thomas Dickson's, where he found the detachment from Ayr had arrived before him, and were snugly housed for the night.
Malcolm M'Cord came. Margaret Annesley came. Horace Dickson's father came. Skag went to the bazaars and back again. He went to the monkey glen. It was all a blur. Once he caught himself walking on the great Highway-of-all-India; and once deep in the jungle.
She must lie off and land the men by boats. That I do not like. It is too public." The news tremendous news, for it told that the new-comers would come by sea, which had never before entered Dickson's head so interested him that he stood dumb and ruminating. The silence made the Belgian suspect; he put out a hand and felt a waterproofed arm which might have been Dobson's.
"And not a thing to tell us who did the robbing. Robbed of a good forty thousand dollors' worth of gold-dust! Enough to have taken us both back to New York state and enabled us to have lived the rest of our lives in comfort," and Mrs. Dickson's voice broke into sobs. "Robbed! Robbed of all your gold!" and our friends gather around them in great excitement and indignation. "When?" "How?"
The minstrel, perceiving that the Scotchman was fretted and embarrassed with the subject, pressed it no farther. At this moment, in crossing the threshold of Thomas Dickson's house, they were greeted with sounds from two English soldiers within.
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