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So Ridge went to his father, who confirmed what he had just heard, saying: "Yes, son; your mother has exerted her influence in your behalf, and procured for you the promise of a second-lieutenant's commission, provided I am willing to pay for the honor." "How, father?" "By using my influence to send Herman Dodley to the Legislature as soon as he comes back from the war."
"Take your belongings ashore, sir, and report back at camp immediately," was the startling response, delivered in the form of an order by Major Herman Dodley, who was now on the staff of the commanding general. "I have a boat in waiting. If you are ready within two minutes I will set you ashore.
As Ridge told what he had heard concerning Herman Dodley, the elder man's brows darkened; and, when the recital was finished, he said: "I fear all this is true, and have little doubt that Dodley is no better than he should be; but, unfortunately, I am so situated at present that I cannot forbid him the house.
Dodley told me all about it, and after hearing it I couldn't bear to ride any farther, so we came back." "I wish he had told me before you started," said Ridge, "so that I might have been in the city long ago." "You were so busily and pleasantly engaged with your roses that I hesitated to interrupt you," murmured Herman Dodley.
I went on, and they shouted after me: "I say, stand a gallon o' beer afore you go." "There's nobody cares for me but poor Mrs Dodley," I said to myself in a choking voice, and then my pride gave me strength. "Very well," I exclaimed aloud; "if they don't care, I don't, and I'm glad I'm going, and I shall be very glad when I'm gone."
And Comly, too! He must have made that call and scraped an acquaintance. What cheek those navy chaps have, anyway! So Dodley reports me as a deserter, does he? And the dear old dad horsewhipped him. Oh, if I had only been there! It is a shame that I haven't managed to write home, and I'll do so this very minute."
It seemed to me as if starting-time would never come, and I fidgeted in and out from the kitchen to the stable to see if Ike had come back, while Mrs Dodley kept on shaking her at me in a pitying way. "Hadn't you better give it, up, my dear?" she said dolefully. "Out all night! It'll be a trying time." "What nonsense!" I said. "Why, sailors have to keep watch of a night regularly."
"I'd rather swim ashore than go with that man!" he exclaimed to Rollo Van Kyp, who, full of sympathy, and genuinely distressed at the prospect of their separation, had gone below with him. Ridge had told his chum all about Dodley, whom they had discovered lounging on a breezy veranda of the great Tampa Bay hotel a few days before, so that now the latter fully comprehended his feelings.
"When the stormy wynds do blow," said Mrs Dodley with something between a sniff and a sob. "Does Mrs Beeton know you are going?" "No," I said stoutly. "My poor orphan bye," she said with a real sob. "Don't don't go." "Why, Mrs Dodley," I cried, "any one would think I was a baby." "Here, Grant," cried Mr Brownsmith, "hadn't you better lie down for an hour or two. You've plenty of time."
In the mean time Dulce Norris had entered the morning-room to find out why Spence had gone to ride with Herman Dodley instead of with Ridge, as had been arranged. "Was that Herman Dodley?" asked the latter, without answering his sister's question. "Yes, of course, but why do you ask with such a tragic air?"
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