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"I should consider we were beastly sneaks if we didn't." "So we should be!" exclaimed Jack Vance. "They've always been jolly decent to us, and it was on our account they had this row with Grice." "If Noaks finds we've split, he'll send that knife to the police," said Mugford. "I don't care a straw what Noaks does," answered Diggory boldly.
"Oh, I expect they opened the window and took it off the ledge," answered Diggory. "Look here let's sweep it up into this piece of paper before it melts." This having been done, the three friends hastily threw off their clothes and scrambled into bed, forgetting all about the proposed race in their eagerness to form some plan for an immediate retaliation on the occupants of the "Main-top."
While Diggory was holding forth in the big schoolroom on his methods of reading a cipher, a conversation of a very different character, and on a matter of grave importance, was taking place in the study of the school captain. Allingford and John Acton were seated in front of the former's little fireplace talking over matters connected with the football club.
Diggory down at the bottom of Shoxford, Susan peeped in through the crack of the door, with the cook to hold her hand behind, and there she saw the Captain on his knees at the side of his father's corpse, not saying a word, only with his head down.
As to Diggory, his delight and satisfaction were almost too great for words. He was overjoyed that Roger had returned, vastly gratified that the money he expended on the Swan was to be repaid, and greatly captivated by Amenche.
Before these preparations were all complete, a little group was seen, standing at the end of the wharf. "There is your good wife, Diggory, and the girls. She has kept her word to be up, betimes, to see the last of us."
To all questions as to the surprising lavishness of cost, Diggory replied: "I would have the ship well found in all matters. It was but the other day that the Antelope returned from a voyage to the Levant. She had lost a third of her crew from scurvy, and of the rest but six were strong enough to pull at a rope when she came into port.
Later on a third epistle was handed over: "Don't tell any one, or there'll be too much of a crowd." It was not until the interval that the two other members of the Triple Alliance were informed of the coming conflict. "You don't really mean you're going to fight him?" said Mugford. "Of course I am." "You'll get licked!" added Diggory, with a sigh. "I don't care if I am.
Clym saw nothing of this, and added good-humouredly "What shall we have to frighten Thomasin's baby with, now you have become a human being again?" "Sit down, Diggory," said Thomasin, "and stay to tea." Venn moved as if he would retire to the kitchen, when Thomasin said with pleasant pertness as she went on with some sewing, "Of course you must sit down here.
He entered the attic, and in about half a minute they heard him coming back. "Ha, ha! I've got your ghost; I've been trying to lay him for some time past." The jingle of a chain was distinctly audible; Mr. Blake was evidently bringing the spectre down in his arms! Diggory and Vance could no longer restrain their curiosity; they hopped out of bed and glanced round the corner of the door.
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