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Hungerford, also, did not appear interested. He was looking at Miss Dott and "Monty," and there was a frown on his face. Upon their return, after they were together in the library at home, Daniel's shocked indignation burst forth. "Well!" he declared, "that's enough. That's the limit, that is! What kind of a gang IS that, anyway?" His wife regarded him with astonishment.
"There!" exclaimed the lady, as she bade the captain good night, "that's done; that much is settled anyhow. I'm thankful I ain't got four twins, instead of two, Cap'n Dott." Daniel, entering the sale in the ledger, was thankful also. If the lengthy Blount account had been settled he would have been still more so.
"The minister and his wife's comin'," she announced. Mrs. Dott turned. "The minister and his wife?" she repeated. "The bell hasn't rung, has it? How do you know they're coming here?" "See 'em through the window," replied Azuba, cheerfully. "They was at the gate quite a spell. She was gettin' her hat straight, and he was helpin' her. Here they be," as the callers' footsteps sounded on the porch.
I looked at him, and perceived my old acquaintance Mr Tommy Dott, grown a great deal taller; I perceived that he did not recognise me. "But, sir," said I to the officer of the party, who was so disguised that I could not tell his rank, "suppose I belong to a man-of-war already?" "That you do not; or if you do, you must be a deserter, my good fellow; that is evident by your stick and bundle.
Laban's remaining as caretaker was his own suggestion. "Me and the old gal Zuby Jane, I mean have talked it over," he explained, "and it seems like the best thing to do. You've got to have somebody here, Cap'n Dott, you've got to pay somebody, and it might as well be me. I'm out of a job just now, anyway.
"That's right, sir that's right just as I wished you to feel. How time flies away. Why, Master Keene, you have been afloat nearly three years." "Within a month, Bob." "And you're growing such a tall fellow, they won't keep you much longer in the captain's gig, I expect: I shall be sorry for that. So Master Tommy Dott is in another scrape." "How? I heard nothing of it."
Mr Dott was reported to the captain for this heinous offence; and, in consequence, was ordered below under arrest, his place in the captain's gig being filled up by me; so that in every point of view Tommy suffered, and I reaped the harvest. What pleased me most was, that, being midshipman of the captain's boat, I was of course continually in the company of the coxswain, Bob Cross.
On the third day, Tommy Dott and Mr Maxwell went on board, imagining that they had had a miraculous escape, and the two old planters and I were left the only inmates of the house to welcome the resurrection of Mammy Crissobella, who was again as busy as before.
Daniel, who was not sure whether "nullos" was a musical instrument or a game, replied that he wasn't sure, but he didn't think he did; after which he retired into the corner to avoid further questioning. They reached home about two o'clock, and the captain fell sound asleep in the taxi and had to be shaken into consciousness when the machine reached the Dott door.
Tommy Dott then slipped in softly, and commenced filling all his pockets with the raisins; he had nearly taken in his full cargo, when, somehow or another, Mr Culpepper stepped forward from where he stood, and he touched Tommy, whom he immediately seized crying out, "Thieves! thieves! call the sentry! sentry, come here."
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