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And so I hadn't no heart to do anything more there; it seemed like I was dead; and I knowed that if I stayed there would be trouble, for I could see that Andy looked at me strange, like there was somethin' he didn't quite understand, ye may say; but I was mad, and I didn't want to take away Dora's beau, nor to have anything to do with a lad that could change his mind so easy.
It was now growing late, and Dick took his departure, kissing Dora's hand a third time as they stood in the darkness of the porch. "You're terrible!" she murmured, but it is doubtful if she meant anything by it. Girls and boys are about the same the world over and Dick's regard for Dora was of the manly sort that is creditable to anybody. "Hurrah, boys, the ice is forming just as fast as it can!
"I am no hypocrite," said Corny. "Rest to the dead and all their faults! White Connal is out of my poor Dora's way, and I am free from my accursed promise!" Then clasping his hands, "Praised be Heaven for that! Heaven is too good to me! Oh, my child! how unworthy White Connal of her! Thank Heaven on my knees, with my whole heart, thank Heaven that I am not forced to the sacrifice!
Tired by his sleepless night and morning walk, Harold, when we went into the hall for Dora's lessons, lay down on the white bear-skin, let us build a pile of cushions for his head, and thanked us with "That's nice." I suppose he had never been waited on before, he smiled with such a grateful look, almost of surprise.
A loud report rang out on deck, followed by the distant crash of glass. Then came a yell, followed by another report and more crashing of glassware. "What can that mean?" burst out Dora, but instead of answering her, Mrs. Goss bounced out of the cabin, locking the door after her, and hurried to the deck. The shots which had reached Dora's ears had come from a gun in the hands of Arnold Baxter.
So we parted; I riding all the way to London with the farewell touch of Dora's hand still light on mine, recalling every incident and word ten thousand times; lying down in my own bed at last, as enraptured a young noodle as ever was carried out of his five wits by love. When I awoke next morning, I was resolute to declare my passion to Dora, and know my fate.
Both women peeped through the lowered blind. "She'll come poundin' upstairs to her mother. There ain't no kapin' of 'r away; and a nice how-d'ye-do there'll be!" The elder boy, Jim, whose ugly little face Dora's was said to resemble, was standing against the gate of the neglected garden.
Both sat down on the edge of a berth, and Nellie placed her head upon Dora's shoulder. "Oh, Dora, what will become of us?" "I'm sure I don't know, Nellie." "They may take us away down the river miles and miles away!" "I know that. We must watch our chances and see if we cannot escape." "Do you think the Rover boys are following the houseboat?" "Let us hope so."
But the Stokesley secrets have lasted long enough; and there is no time to tell of the happy days of Dora's visit, and the good care that Johnnie took of her whenever she went out, and of her pretty quiet ways that made Bessie take her for her dearest of friends.
"Ah, that sort of death requires a different kind of courage," sneered Ormsby, who was nettled by Dora's taunts. "I won't listen to you," she cried. "You are defaming the man I love. He couldn't go away with such things on his conscience. It is all some wicked plot."
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