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On the morning following the breaking of his water cask John Woolfolk saw the slender figure of Millie on the beach. She waved and called, her voice coming thin and clear across the water: "Are visitors encouraged?" He sent Halvard in with the tender, and as they approached, dropped a gangway over the Gar's side.
"Where's Aunt Julia, Sarah?" "Done left for Gar's Hollow just five minutes ago, your pa sent Jim back for her in the gig. What you say, Miss P'tricia?" For under her breath, Patrica was saying jubilantly: "It's providential!" "N-nothing that is, I was only thinking out loud," she told Sarah. "Don't you go worrying 'bout dat ere party, honey; hit'll come off all right."
At an indignation meeting convened by the students he rose and delivered, so says one who heard him, "one of the most impassioned and eloquent speeches ever delivered in old Williams." It made a sensation. "Did you hear Old Gar's speech at the meeting?" asked one of another. "No, I did not get in in time." "It was great. I never heard him speak better. Do you know what I think?" "Well?"
Taj Lamor, who had listened with a mixture of amusement and impatience to the recital of a history he knew as well as the aged, garrulous narrator, waited out of the inborn respect which every man held for the Elders. At length he exclaimed: "I see no point " "But you will when I finish or, at least, I hope you will." Tordos Gar's words and tone were gently reproving.
He privately acknowledged the palpable truth of her objections, and rose. "I've some fishing things on the ketch," he said, moving away. He blew shrilly on a whistle from the beach, and Halvard dropped over the Gar's side into the tender.
Maybe, whiles, he doesna tell's a thing jist to gar's think aboot it, and be ready for the time whan he will tell's." Thomas was silent for a few moments. Then with a smile-�rather a grim one�-he said, But his countenance changed, and he added hastily, "It's a mark o' indwellin' sin. To the law and to the testimony�-Gang awa' and lat me to my prayers."
"It manes an ould waistcoat; that is, it's the Irish for an ould waistcoat, and Paudeen Gar's men were called Shanavests, bekaise when they went out to swear the people against tithes and priests' dues, they put ould waistcoats about them for fraid o' bein' known." "And you tell me that McCarthy's a White-boy?"
He found Halvard already at the sand's edge, waiting uneasily with the tender, and they crossed the broken water to where the Gar's cabin flung out a remote, peaceful light. The sailor immediately set about his familiar, homely tasks, while Woolfolk made a minute inspection of the ketch's rigging.
The yacht swung lightly over the choppy water, and a strong affection for the ketch that had been his home, his occupation, his solace through the past dreary years expanded his heart. He knew the Gar's every capability and mood, and they were all good. She was an exceptional boat. His feeling was acute, for he knew that the yacht had been superseded.
The wide calm, Woolfolk thought, was but a part of a general conspiracy against his liberty, his memories. "Get the anchor up," he repeated harshly. "We'll go under the engine." The sudden jarring of the Gar's engine sounded muffled in a shut space like the flushed heart of a shell. The yacht moved forward, with a wake like folded gauze, into a shimmer of formless and pure color.
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