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If I had stopped to think if I had had the faintest idea that you would catechise me in the way you have done I shouldn't have dreamt of doing such a thing." Miss Drewitt, who was standing with her hand on the latch of the door leading upstairs, as a hint that the interview was at an end, could not restrain her indignation.
"Since I retired from business time hangs very heavy sometimes. I've got a fancy for a small yacht, but I suppose I couldn't go a long voyage in a small one?" "Smaller the better," said Edward Tredgold, who was sitting by the window watching Miss Drewitt sewing. Mr. Chalk took his pipe from his mouth and eyed him inquiringly. "Less to lose," explained Mr.
"But you said that you had," persisted his niece. "Yes," stammered the captain, "I know I did, but I hadn't. I was just looking ahead a bit, that was all. I went to the bureau just now to do it." Miss Drewitt eyed him with mild reproach. "You even described how you did it," she said, slowly. "You said that Mount Lonesome turned into a volcano. Wasn't it true?"
"There!" said Prudence, her eyes sparkling with indignation. "What did I say? Didn't I tell you that those three people would be taking a holiday soon? The idea of Mr. Tredgold venturing to come round here this afternoon!" "He knows nothing about it," protested the captain. Miss Drewitt shook her head obstinately. "We shall see," she remarked.
As they walked on he regaled them with selected instances. "Don't forget your leg, uncle," said Miss Drewitt, softly. Captain Bowers gazed at her suspiciously. "Don't forget that it's stiff and put too much strain on it," explained his niece. The captain eyed her uneasily, but she was talking and laughing with Edward Tredgold in a most reassuring fashion.
"Let her down?" repeated Miss Drewitt, sharply. "Do you mean one of the chairs in my bedroom?" Mr. Tredgold nodded. "Gave her rather a nasty fall," he said. "I struck while the iron was hot, and went and made her an offer while she was still laid up from the effects of it. It's the one standing against the wall; the other's all right, with proper care."
Drewitt always liked bright colors, and red is very becoming to me. She was such a wistful, pathetic, and incongruous little figure that I said something about hoping that she would soon be in New York again. 'But, she said, 'Mr. Drewitt cannot leave his work here. Didn't you know that he is stationed here to report the changes of the weather to Washington?
Vickers repelled all callers with acrimonious impartiality, but Selina, after a long argument with a lady subaltern of the Salvation Army, during which the methods and bonnets of that organization were hotly assailed, so far relented as to present her with twopence on account. Miss Drewitt looked forward to the return of the adventurers with disdainful interest.
Miss Drewitt, listening helplessly to this fulsome exchange of compliments, wondered whether they had got to the end. The captain looked at Mr. Tredgold as though to remind him that it was his turn. "You you were going to show me a photograph of your first ship," said the latter, after a long pause. "Don't trouble if it's upstairs." "It's no trouble," said the captain, briskly.
"I am keeping everything dark until I am so like him in every particular that you will not know the difference. I have often envied him the possession of such a niece. When the likeness is perfec " "Well?" said Miss Drewitt, with impatient scorn. "You will have two uncles instead of one," rejoined Mr. Tredgold, impressively.
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