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Where else would I get a stream of telegrams? Something has gone wrong. I am urgently needed. Sigsbee nodded gravely. 'That is what I fear, he said. 'That is why I cannot risk having you upset. Time enough, Gossett, for bad news after the game. Play on, man, and dismiss it from your mind. Besides, you couldn't get back to New York just yet, in any case. There are no trains.
"I no understand dat, Massa Easy I love you, because you good, and treat me well Mr Vigors, he bully, and treat me ill how possible to love him? By de power, I hate him, and wish I had him skull. You tink little Massa Gossett love him?"
I say," he went on hurriedly, "you know Gossett of the Engineers, don't you? He goes to-morrow, and and he was married yesterday. Both he and and his wife felt they couldn't wait any longer. I suppose her people tried to dissuade her from getting married at such a time as this; but she wouldn't listen to them.
The constant battles which Jack was obliged to fight at school had been brought forward by Jack against his father's arguments in favour of equality, but they had been overruled by Mr Easy's pointing out that the combats of boys had nothing to do with the rights of man. As soon as the watch was called, Vigors, O'Connor, Gossett, and Gascoigne came down into the berth.
Gossett's drive was, however, worse; and the subsequent movement of the pair to the hole resembled more than anything else the manoeuvres of two men rolling peanuts with toothpicks as the result of an election bet. Archibald finally took the hole in twelve after Gossett had played his fourteenth.
'Be brave, Gossett be brave, he said. 'This is a crisis in the game. Keep your nerve. Play just as if nothing existed outside the links. To look at these telegrams now would be fatal. Eye-witnesses of that great encounter will tell the story of the last hole to their dying day. It was one of those Titanic struggles which Time cannot efface from the memory.
Fine putting enabled Gossett to do the sixteenth hole in twelve, and when, winning the seventeenth in nine, he brought his score level with Archibald's the match seemed over. But just then 'Mr Gossett! said a familiar voice. Once more was the much-enduring telegraph boy among those present. 'T'ree dis time! he observed. Gossett sprang, but again the watchful Sigsbee was too swift.
Captain Wilson and Mr Sawbridge seriously regretted the loss of our hero, as they thought that he would have turned out a shining character as soon as he had sown his wild oats; so did Mr Asper, because our hero's purse went with him; so did Jolliffe, because he had taken an affection for him; so did little Gossett, because he anticipated no mercy from Vigors.
When he reached the gesticulating group, he was calm and business-like. He had a constructive policy to suggest. "I say," he said. "I've got an idea!" "Go away!" said Mr. Brewster. "This is bad enough without you butting in." Archie quelled him with a gesture. "Leave us," he said. "We would be alone. I want to have a little business-talk with Mr. Gossett."
"By de soul of my fader, but it all for true, Massa Easy he larrap, um, sure enough all for noteing, bad luck to him I tink," continued Mesty, "he hab debelish bad memory and he want a little more of Equality Jack." "And he shall have it too," replied our hero; "why, it's against the articles of war, `all quarrelling, fighting, etc. I say, Mr Gossett, have you got the spirit of a louse?"
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