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But still, you are no doubt right about the watch, and the poor fellow’s widow would, doubtless, be glad to have it; as to the gold, I will take charge of it for the present. We will talk the matter over again later on; there is no occasion to come to any decision about it. At present it is entirely yours.
I’ve an idea that that feeling is just plain ugliness coming to life!” Truax came back from the door, a grin on his face. Yet, when he turned his head away, there was a queer, almost deadly flash in the fellow’s eyes. Jack slept, uneasily, until towards the middle of the afternoon.
I pointed to my leg; but Mehevi in his turn pointed to Kory-Kory, and removed that objection; so, mounting upon the faithful fellow’s shoulders again—like the old man of the sea astride of Sinbad—I followed after the chief. The nature of the route we now pursued struck me more forcibly than anything I had yet seen, as illustrating the indolent disposition of the islanders.
“I know,” nodded Captain Jack. “I’d hate to hurt a fine fellow’s feelings. Yet—confound it, I do want to win this burst of speed. It means, perhaps, the quick sale of this boat to the Navy. If we’re beaten it means, to the Secretary of the Navy, that he already has our best boat, and he might not see the need of buying the ’Farnum’ at all.”
"King Ferdinand!" thought Frank, "I’d endure the rack for the sake of being in the old fellow’s boots." Frank had been standing near Fanny, fixing upon her a gaze so intensely earnest that when she at last raised her eyes to his she blushed deeply, for there was no mistaking the look of deep admiration with which he regarded her. Kate immediately introduced him.
I hear him now talking about Sunshine," and Fanny rushed in, and throwing her arms around her father’s neck, kissed again and again his rough cheek, while he suddenly felt the need of his red and yellow cotton handkerchief, and muttered something about the "roads" being so infernal dusty that they made a fellow’s eyes smart!
“I think that you are right,” the captain agreed. “I have no reason to doubt Jacopo’s honesty, still the thought of so much wealth, although it is of no more value here than so much sand, may excite his avarice. Many a man’s throat has been cut in Peru for a score of dollars or less, and it is just as well not to put any temptation in the fellow’s way.
Hal found Sam Truax sitting moodily in a corner of the engine room, though there was something about the fellow’s appearance that suggested the watchfulness of a cat. “Why don’t you go on deck a while, Truax?” asked Hal, kindly. “Don’t want to,” snapped the fellow, irritably. So Hal turned his back on the man.
But the old gentleman in the list shoes was the most amusing object in the whole party; for, besides his grotesque attempts to appear youthful, and amorous, which were sufficiently entertaining in themselves, the young fellow in the pumps managed so artfully that every time the old gentleman advanced to salute the lady in the cloth boots, he trod with his whole weight on the old fellow’s toes, which made him roar with anguish, and rendered all the others like to die of laughing.
We were all a little surprised when we saw him; but when Friday saw him, it was easy to see joy and courage in the fellow’s countenance. “O! O! O!” says Friday, three times, pointing to him; “O master, you give me te leave, me shakee te hand with him; me makee you good laugh.”
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