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"If we couldn't get it with bathing suits, you couldn't climb that pole with them long pants," retorted one of the contestants who stood near. "Look! that kid's goin' to get it, after all!" There was disappointment in the tones; but the words had no sooner died away than the climber slipped to the ground. Flea pinched Flukey's arm. "Be yer knee so twisted that ye can't try, Flukey?"
She hesitated and whispered again, "Do ye believe it, Fluke?" "Course I do, if she says it! Don't ye think what she says is so?" "I don't believe all that," replied Flea. "I tried last night, and couldn't. You used to laugh at me when I said as how there was ghosts." "Mebbe she don't believe in ghosts," sighed Flukey. "It's almost the same. She believes in Jesus." "He's all I believe in, too."
"Then ye'd get yer neck stretched," argued Flea, "and I ain't a goin' to him. We be goin' away to the good land down behind the college hill." "When?" demanded Flukey. "Tonight," replied Flea. "Ye go and get some duds for me, a shirt and the other pair of yer jeans. Crib Granny's shears to cut my hair off. Then we'll start. See? And we ain't never comin' back.
I ain't afraid of nothing what lives!" Flukey interrupted her by taking her arm and pushing her back a little. "I'm a thief by trade," he said; "but my sister ain't. She ain't never stole nothin' in all her life, she ain't. Take me, will ye, Mister?" "Sister!" murmured the gentleman, turning to Flea.
"Then who did it?" queried Flea. "God did jest as how He said 'way back there when there wasn't any world, 'World, come out! and the world came. He said, 'Jesus, stand up! and Jesus stood up. That's as easy as rollin' off a log, Flea." She had heard Ann explain it, too; but it seemed easier when Flukey interpreted it.
"No, I don't care for the opinion of any of them," he replied deliberately. "I want only your happiness, Sis, and theirs." "Wouldn't it be nice if we could find respectable names for them?" Ann said presently. "One can't harmonize them with 'Flea' and 'Flukey." After a silence of a few moments, Horace spoke: "What do you think about calling them Floyd and Fledra, Ann?"
"Yes, to keep," was the reply, "and this five-dollar gold-piece because you caught him." "I didn't try to catch him," she said simply. "He jest comed to me 'cause he were so afeard. His little heart's a beatin' like as if he's goin' to die. I'll keep him, and I thank ye for the money.... Golly! but ain't me and Flukey two rich kids? Where's Fluke?"
So it subsequently turned out. The "sea-pigs," as the Captain had at first jocularly termed them, bade good-bye to the steamer and its passengers when they had got a little way beyond No Man's fort, and were approaching shoal water, with an impudent flick of their flukey tails in the air as they went off, shaping a straight course out towards the Nab light-ship, as if bound up Channel.
Flea did not hear the rest of the sentence; for she and Flukey were hurrying toward the hut. Lem stood wiping the blood from his face. "The cussed spit-cat!" he hissed. "When I take her in hand " "When ye take her in hand, Lem," interrupted Lon darkly, "ye can do what ye like. Break her spirit! Break her neck, if ye want to! I don't care."
I can't understand how Jesus ruz after he'd been dead three days." "He did that 'cause He were one-half God," explained Flukey, and then, brightening, added, "Sister Ann telled me that if He hadn't been a sufferin' and a sufferin', and hadn't loved everybody well enough, God wouldn't have let Him ruz. 'Twa'n't by anything He did after He were dead that brought Him standin' up again."
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