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What answer could he make? That he was intoxicated in his berth when the mail arrived? A sweat of shame covered him. He was silent. "Well, well, my boy!" Captain Edney patted him gently on the shoulder, "you are forgiven this time. I am sure you did not mean to get drunk." "O, sir!" began Frank, but stopped there, over whelmed by the captain's kindness. "I know all about it," said Captain Edney.
The rare brightness kindled in Atwater's eyes as he gazed, and remembered. The boat came alongside, and hailed the schooner. And a man in the bow, as it rose upon a wave, seizing hold of the ladder of tarred rope, stepped quickly upon it, and came on board, cordially received by Captain Edney, who appeared to have been expecting him.
"Ask her," said the captain, "If she remembers Henry Edney, who used to go to school to her in . She will recollect me, I am sure. And give my very kind regards to her, and to your father; and tell them I regret I didn't see you before you enlisted, for I want just such a drummer boy in my company.
The family waited, however, in what anguish of suspense need not to be told, until the next mail brought them letters from Mr. Egglestone and Captain Edney. By these, their worst fears were confirmed. Exposure, fatigue, excitement, the wound he had received, had done their work with Frank. He was dangerously ill with a fever. "O, dear!" groaned Mr. Manly, "this wicked, this wicked rebellion!
And he might keep those promises in a higher and nobler sense than he dreamed of when he made them; and his mother's prayer might, after all, be answered. "Frank," said the voice of Captain Edney. He had come to visit the quarters of his company, and, seeing the boy sitting there so absorbed, his young face charged with thought and grief, had stopped some moments to regard him, without speaking.
Frank was disappointed in not being able to keep that promise. An order came for the regiment to be ready to march in two days; in the mean time no furloughs could be granted. "I am sorry for you, Frank," said Captain Edney; "and I would make an exception in your case, if possible." "No, I don't ask that, sir," said Frank, stoutly. "I did want to see my folks again, but " He turned away his face.
Captain Edney heard him with deep concern. He had all along felt a sense of responsibility for the boy Mrs. Manly had intrusted to him, as well as a genuine affection for him; he had therefore double cause to be pained by this unexpected development.
He never knew how it happened, but, instead of a cartridge, he got hold of the tompion, called by the boys the "tompin," used to stop the muzzle of the gun and protect it from moisture, and was actually proceeding to ram it down the barrel before he discovered his mistake! "Take a cartridge, Winch!" said Captain Edney, who was coolly noting the conduct of his men.
Manly looked away, with the air of one resolutely turning her mind from one painful subject to another. "I wish to ask you, Mr. Egglestone, what disposition has been made of I had another son, you know." He understood her. "I trust," said he, "that what Captain Edney and myself thought proper to do will meet your approval.
For the rural idioms we refer the reader to the late Sylvester Judd's "Margaret" and "Richard Edney," and to the Jack Downing Letters. The town is not behind the country. For, whatever is the current fancy, pugilism, fire-companies, racing, railway-building, or the opera, its idioms invade the talk. The Almighty Dollar of our worship has more synonymes than the Roman Pantheon had divinities.
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