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Sidy, the interpreter, was fortunately on shore, so that we had no trouble about him, and the captain knew that he could easily pay him through the consignee of the ship. Captain Gale's intention was, I learned, to run down to the mouth of the harbour, and to anchor if necessary. We got a cable ranged accordingly, with an anchor ready to let go.
When Stark's new place opened it offered him another retreat of which he availed himself for some time. But late in the evening he reappeared at Old Man Gale's store, walking a bit unsteadily, and as he mounted the flight of logs to the door he stepped once too often. "What's become of that fourth step?" he demanded, sharply, of Poleon. "Dere she is," said the Frenchman. "I'm damned if it is.
Gale suggests an additional figure to the group on the monument a serpent with the face of F.O.J.S., biting the heel of Morse, but with the fangs extracted." Professor Gale's letter to Henry J. Rogers is worthy of being quoted in full:
"If," he said, in quivering tones, "if if " "Go on," said the girl, softly. "Why, I got as far as that: and you are a man." Mr. Gale's voice became almost inaudible. "If we got married, do you mean?" he said, at last. "Married!" exclaimed Miss Miller, starting back a full two inches. "Good gracious! the man is mad after all." The bitter and loudly expressed opinion of Mr.
"She's all right, she's over to Mrs. Gale's." "Mrs. Gale's!" and Patty flew off like the wind, caring for nothing but the assurance of her own eyes that Fleurette was safe. "Help me, Bill," said Azalea, going toward Farnsworth, "you said once, you'd defend me." "I will, dear. What's this all about? Who are you?" He addressed Merritt quietly, but with a fire in his blue eyes that was disturbing.
I know it'll come all right. Say you'll marry me soon.... Why, dearest, you're crying.... Nell!" "My heart is broken," sobbed Nell, "for I I can't marry you." The boyish brightness faded out of Gale's face. Here, Belding saw, was the stern reality arrayed against his dreams. "That devil Radford Chase he'll tell my secret," panted Nell.
The three of them were alone, and only the sound of Gale's axe came to them; but at the light in the Canadian's face Runnion hastily disclaimed any such thought on his part, and Stark shrugged his denial. "I don' know you feller' at all," continued Poleon, "but Ole Man Gale, he's my frien', so I guess you don' better talk no more lak' dat." "Don't get sore," said Stark.
The faithful Rhoda accompanied her half way to London; then returned to her own duties in Barfordshire. I MUST now retrograde a little to relate something rather curious, and I hope not uninteresting. Zoe Vizard had been for some time acting on Mrs. Gale's advice; building, planning for the good of the poor, and going out of herself more and more.
But a more remarkable fact was that her old husband who wouldn't have yearned after the dragoon, ye'd have thought began to dwindle and fall away too. By the New Year he was a dying man, and carried his doom on his face. And on New Year's Day he straddled his mare for the last time, and rode over to Looe, to Doctor Gale's.
Gale's face broke into an expression of mingled pain and joy. She opened her arms. Nell, uttering a strange little stifled cry, flew into them. Belding suddenly discovered an unaccountable blur in his sight. He could not see perfectly, and that was why, when Mrs. Belding entered the sitting-room, he was not certain that her face was as sad and white as it seemed.
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