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"How are we to know that we are to trust you, Hampton?" said Mr Frewen. "Tell you dreckly, sir, soon as I can get foot-hold. I'm pretty strong in the arms, but you can't hang by them as long as you can stand on your legs, 'less you're born a monkey, which I warn't. You see there's no board nor nothing to get a foot on, and I knows without trying that I couldn't get through that window."
I knew he had taken it all, for I had at last raised the flask quite upright, and he drew his lips away. "Now, Hampton," whispered Mr Frewen, "hold on for a little till the spirit begins to stimulate you." "It's begun a'ready, doctor," was the answer. "It's put new life into me, sir, and I'm going to make a try for it directly." "Not for a minute, man, not for a minute."
Yes, P-t-r, when you call on a young lady and her mother offers you a slice of bread and jam it is quite polite for you to accept it. Necklaces of roseberries are very much worn now. It is considered smart to wear your school hat tilted over your left eye. Bangs are coming in. Em Frewen has them. She went to Summerside for a visit and came back with them.
And now that Mr Frewen did speak it was quite aloud, for there was no need for whispering. "I was thinking about what Captain Berriman and Mr Brymer must feel," I said. "About the management of the ship? Yes, poor fellows, and both suffering too. You see that scoundrel has let the whole day pass by without letting me go and attend the captain.
Then he plumped down beside it, took off his hat, wiped his face, and settled back to listen to the sermon, just as if it was all a matter of course. When the service was over he hoisted his bag up again, marched out of church, and drove home. He could never understand why it made so much talk; but he was known by the name of Oatmeal Frewen for years."
But I don't want to shed blood if I can help it." "No," I said, with a shudder, "it is too horrid." Mr Frewen looked at me searchingly. "Only," he continued slowly, "if blood is to be shed, and by none of our seeking, it is our duty to see that it is the blood of the villains who have turned upon us and set the law at defiance. Do you see that, Dale?"
For just then the two men came down coolly enough from the poop-deck, reported the water on board, and then eagerly set to work, carrying more stores, blankets, and all else we could by any possibility want, till the mate cried hold, enough. "We've got all we can stow, I'm sure," he said. "Then pray let us get away before it is too late," whispered Mr Frewen. "Afraid, doctor?"
And now listen to me, all you who can hear. You can't sail into port without us, and you are only proposing a truce because you are growing frightened." "Indeed!" said Mr Frewen, coolly. "Yes, indeed, doctor. I know your voice. Now you take my advice you and those two passengers. Get back to your cabins, and perhaps I'll forgive you.
On the following morning we started for Powder River, 92 miles from Fort Fetterman; there was no public conveyance, as Powder River station had been abandoned since the Indians had been driven back, and confined to their reservation lands. We were bound by invitation to the cattle ranche of Mr. R. Frewen and his brother Mr.
Captain Berriman was silent. "Stop a moment!" cried Mr Frewen; and he ran into his cabin, to return with a revolver which he threw on the table. "Useless," he said. "The case of cartridges gone. Here, Mr Denning, see to your gun, see what cartridges you have." Mr Denning threw open the breech of his double-barrelled gun, examined the two cartridges, and closed the breech again.
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