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"My child," said he, "I come to speak to you in private a thing I cannot compass in my own apartments." Dominick bowed to take leave, but the emperor withheld him. "Stay," said he, "for you may serve us, Dominick. I know you to be Joseph's best friend, and you will not betray him. But I have no time for words. Tell me quickly, Joseph, is there any secret outlet to these apartments?
"Hold on!" shouted Dominick, after a few spars had been collected and dragged up on the sand. Otto and Pauline paused in their labour, and looked anxiously at their brother, for his face wore a perplexed look. "We have forgotten that it is impossible to shove a raft of any size, big or little, through these huge breakers, so as to get it round the point, to where the wreck lies."
I gripped myself, mastered the qualms that rose in my throat, and downed the stuff. Dominick had never seen an infant of such heroic calibre. Twice again he refilled the tumbler, each time to the brim, and watched it disappear down my throat. By this time my exploits were attracting attention.
Then she set them finally free at sunrise on the following day, when the soft yellow light streamed on surrounding land and sea, converting their sleeping-place into a silver cave by contrast. There was no languid or yawny awakening on this occasion. Dominick sat up the instant his eyes opened, then sprang to his feet, and ran out of the cave.
He frowned savagely into its pale brown foam when he realized that I purposed to force him to speak first. His voice was ominously surly as he shifted his cigar to say: "Well, young fellow, what can I do for you?" "Mr. Fessenden told me you wanted to see me," said I. "He didn't say nothing of the sort," growled Dominick. "I've knowed Buck seventeen years, and he ain't no liar."
"What are you going to do with them, Mother?" he asked, for though his education in chicken lore seemed to have been in vain he was none the less sympathetically interested in his mothers practice of the hen-craft. "I'm just going to give 'em to Old Dominick to dry out and warm up for her while I persuade her back on the nest.
The truth of the matter was that Dominick had really taken the coop usually occupied by her ladyship, and with worldly determination, the scion of all the Wyandottes was holding out against the exchange.
Endeavoring once more to fly from herself, she called her children. They came, and she kissed them, putting an arm around each. "Dominick, do you want to go away, away to Mexico, and become rich and great?" "No, no, mamma; I want to live here forever with you and papa." "We both do," iterated Harman. "We both do." "Colonel Burr will be there to take care of us all.
At the same moment the palace door was thrown open, and Dominick led the youthful queen to the foot of the throne. Poor little Pauline looked so modest and pretty, and even timid, and withal so angelically innocent in the simplicity of her attire, that the people burst into an earnestly enthusiastic shout, and began for the first time to feel that this was no game or play, but a serious reality.
"Ay, and died here," returned Dominick, in a grave, low tone, as he pointed to a skeleton lying on a spot which had once been cleared of bushes, but so long ago that the vegetation had partially grown up again. The man whose bleached bones lay before them had evidently perished many years before.
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