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"Sit down, George," she said. "Thank you, Miss Greendale, I would rather stand," and he took his place in front of her. "I have a story to tell you," he said. "It is very painful for me to have to tell it, and it will be painful for you to hear it; but I am sure that you ought to know." Bertha did not say anything, but looked at him with eyes wide open with surprise.
The boat was little more than half an hour away. Lady Greendale, in her anxiety, had told the steward to let her know when it was coming alongside, and went up on deck to get the news as quickly as possible. "It is a rum affair altogether, my lady," Hawkins said, as he stepped on deck.
I wanted her for cruising, and there is no doubt that a yawl is more handy, and you can work her with fewer hands than you can a cutter of the same size." They went round the vessel, and then returning on deck, sat down and chatted while waiting for the boat's return. "I sincerely hope that you will win, Frank, on Friday," Lady Greendale said.
Possibly I may want the yacht to sail at once to Dover to meet me there, or you may have to go up to town to do something for me. "Now I must go down and tell Lady Greendale as much as is necessary. It will, of course, be the best thing for her to go up to town with me, but if she is not well enough for that, of course she must stay on board."
"I am so sorry," Bertha Greendale said, "so awfully sorry. I had no idea that you thought of me like that.
He and his men know a good deal better than you do but remember, the great duty is to take the ladies on board safe. "The moment you get them there, tell the captain my orders are that you are to man the two boats, row straight at the brigantine, drive the crew overboard and sink her. Then you are to sail for England with Miss Greendale.
Lady Greendale was a thoroughly kind-hearted woman, but she could not forget that she herself might have made, in a worldly sense, a better match than she had; and her ambition had, since Bertha was a child, and still more since she had shown promise of exceptional good looks, been centred on her making a really good match.
"Miss Greendale is at the other end of the garden, sir," the servant said, as he enquired for her the next morning. "She asked me to tell you if you called that she was there." With considerable assurance of success, Carthew walked into the garden. She must know what he wanted to say to her, and he had of late felt sure that her answer would be favourable when the question was put.
"No, Miss Greendale, I took deliberate aim at him, and it was only the mercy of God that saved his life." Bertha was too surprised and shocked to speak, and he went on: "He himself thought that he had been hit by a Sepoy bullet, and it was only when I sent for him, believing that I had received my death wound, that he knew that it was I who had hit him." "But for what?" she asked.
Having despatched this, he drove at once to Lady Greendale's, and told her that he had learnt that the craft in which Bertha had been carried off had sailed for the south, probably the Mediterranean, and that he should start that evening in pursuit. "It may be a long chase, Lady Greendale, but never fear but that I will bring her back safely.
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