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As Adam Halliburt and his son sprang into the cabin, they saw in a small cot by the side of a larger one, a little girl, her light hair falling over her fair young neck. She lifted her head and gazed at them from her blue eyes with looks of astonishment mingled with terror. "Is no one with you, my pretty maiden?" exclaimed Adam; "how came you to be left all alone here?" "Ayah gone.
Harry proposed asking Dame Halliburt and the little girl to come up to the porch, but they had by this time passed on towards the back entrance. "The dame is probably in a hurry to sell her fish and to go on her way," observed Miss Pemberton. "We will talk to her another time." "Come, Harry, madame is ready to give you your French lesson," said Julia, and they went into the house.
Harry had expressed a wish to have Jacob Halliburt to attend on him, and as it was necessary that some one should be constantly at his side, Jacob was appointed to that duty. It would have been impossible to have found a more tender nurse, and no one could have attended more carefully to the directions given by the surgeon.
"It must indeed be satisfactory news to you, Harry, and I am grateful to young Halliburt for giving it you, as it is the physic you wanted, and has done more than all the doctor's tonics in bringing you round." Harry, indeed, after this rapidly got well, and before the ship with her prize arrived in Calcutta, he was able to return to his duty.
He had gone some distance, when suddenly the tall figure of Mad Sal, rising as it seemed out of the earth, stood before him. He started back and would have hurried away, recollecting her appearance when he had assisted in the outrage on Jacob Halliburt. Though others might not have recognised him, she, it was evident, did so, from the way she addressed him.
The fishermen regardless of the driving mist, which, settling on their flushing coats and sou'-westers, ran off them in streamlets kept turning their eyes seawards, endeavouring to penetrate the increasing gloom. "Here comes Adam Halliburt!" exclaimed one of them, turning round; "we shall hear what he thinks of the weather.
His countenance, though burned and bronzed almost to blackness, and somewhat frizzled by age and exposure, wore the same honest, kind expression which Headland had described. "Sit down, my friend," said Harry, giving him one of a couple of stools he had manufactured. "Halliburt has been telling me that you wish to hear about Captain Headland."
Now, between ourselves, Mrs Halliburt, I do not trust that craft or her owner. You know, perhaps, as much about them as I do; your husband knows more, but I think it would content the young gentleman if Halliburt would take him off in his yawl, and he need not go so far from the shore as to run any risk of being picked up by an enemy's ship."
The lugger, however, had not again made her appearance, and it was supposed by some that she had been lost, but others asserted, and among them Adam Halliburt, that during the war time she had plenty to do in procuring information from France, as well as in carrying it to that country from England, for Jacob had told his father of the papers Gaffin had shown him, and Adam saw no reason why he should keep the matter secret.
"Well, sir, I'd blush to call myself a man if I did," replied the fisherman, and without boasting of his intentions, he added that he and his dame were quite prepared to bring up the little girl like a daughter of their own. When Adam offered the usual fee, the lawyer motioned him to put it into his pocket. "Friend Halliburt, you are doing your duty to the little foundling, and I will do mine.
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