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You'll hold him down." Bob came to time loyally. "Dud's all right. You'll find him there like a rock when you need him. Best fellow in all this White River country." Her shining eyes sent a stab of pain through his heart. She was smiling at him queerly. "One of the best," she said. "Stay with you to a fare-you-well," he went on.
But his fearless, honest eye cowed them, and I am sure he would have struck hard if it had been necessary to protect the poor little fellows who kept under his wing. The boys called them "Dud's chickens." There was one boy in the school, Walter Whittaker, who had a special desire to be on good terms with Dudley.
Dud's eldest brother is described in the same pedigree as Robert Dudley, Squire, of Netherton Hall; and as his sisters mostly married well, several of them county gentlemen, it is obvious that the family, notwithstanding that the children were born out of wedlock, held a good position in their neighbourhood, and were regarded with respect.
They were having tea on the terrace. As Varian strolled up to the group he wished that Hunter could see the picture they made Hunter, who had not been in America for thirty years, and who had been so honestly surprised when Varian had spoken of Mrs. Dud's pretty maids she always had pretty ones, even to the cook's third assistant. "Maids? Maids? It used to be 'help," he had protested.
Dud's heavy bag over the links all the afternoon she preferred her friends to caddies; prompting for the dramatics rehearsal, with a poor light, all the evening, while the actors gossiped and squabbled and flirted contentedly. "It is not always restful," he admitted. "It makes my head ache," she remarked placidly. "I like to see the girls enjoy themselves.
Dud's blue eyes grew steely. "You can't, eh? Listen, fellow. I promised Blister to make a man outa you if I could. I aim to do it. You lick Bandy good to-night or I'll whale you to-morrow. That ain't all either. Every time you let him run on you I'll beat you up next day soon as I get you alone." Bob looked at him, startled. "You wouldn't do that, Dud?" "Wouldn't I? Don't you bet I wouldn't.
Hang her! there's a scarecrow as sings at Curl's Divan. Such a caterwauling upon a stage! I'd like to put my two barrels into her. By this time Dud's pipe was out, and he could afford to converse. 'You shall see her and decide. You will walk down the river, and pass her by. 'That's as may be; howsoever, it would not do, nohow, to buy a pig in a poke, you know.
"Who told him?" asked Dan, who did not feel particularly cheered at these tidings; for Dud's "cooling off" was by no means to be trusted, as he knew. "Father Regan, of course. He couldn't send the boys unless they wanted to go. But when they heard about the old house uncle made out of his ship, and the row-boats and the sailboat, and the bathing and fishing, they just jumped at the chance to go.
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