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And I kissed her again, and said, "Helier will tell you all about it, Aunt Jeanne," and ran off across the knoll, past Vieux Port, to Belfontaine. I looked across at Brecqhou as I came in sight of the western waters, and said to myself, "In an hour I will be over there to see Carette," and my heart leaped with joy. Away up towards Rondellerie I thought I saw my grandfather in the fields.
I went down to the boat, doubtful of my next move. In the boat that nosed the shore lay Helier Le Marchant, my comrade in prison, in escape, in many perils, with a bullet-hole in his forehead dead. And I knew that Krok was right and my worst fears were justified.
I parted with mine to a good woman, who helped me to escape from Bayonne; so I will accept that offer, also." In two hours the schooner entered the port of Saint Helier; the lugger, under easy sail, following in her wake.
Not long afterward he met her on somebody's doorstep, and she, who was taking her departure, greeted him with some slight frigidity. He merely looked at her with a momentary twinkle in his eye, and said, "I think you had me there." Some days later she received yet another letter from him, which consisted of these words: DEAR LADY ST. HELIER. The deed is done. God forgive me.
She caught his dark eyes fixed on her at times with a look that reminded her of Helier Baker's black spaniel's, who was a very close friend of hers. They had neither dog nor cat at present at La Closerie, both having been scrimped by the silver mines, when old Tom's first bad attack of economy came on. Then, at table, Gard was always quietly on the look-out to anticipate her wants.
Revenge would be equally sweet, whether that were answered or not. Full of these thoughts the groom of the chamber stalked on to S. Helier. On reaching the quay, he came to "The White Ship" a tavern frequented alike by the officers of the garrison and by those of the island militia.
Helier, Jersey, and carried their borings down to bed rock at about thirty feet, which roughly coincides with the present mean sea-level. The modern meadow-soil went down about five feet. Then came a bed of moss-peat, one to three feet thick. There had been a bog here at a time which, to judge by similar finds in other places, was just before the beginning of the bronze-age.
Fortunately she was generally away cruising, and many a prize has she taken into Granville. I have had the luck to recapture two of them, myself; but when she is known to be at home we most of us keep in port, for she is a good deal more than a match for any craft that sails out from Saint Helier.
No words; you came from England last night. God bless England and all her friends!" So saying the governor departed, and in a few minutes more was seen to mount his horse at the fort gate and gallop towards S. Helier, followed by a single orderly.
"My poor Helier!... They had muffled my head in a cloak so that I could neither hear nor see. I had just gone outside " "Your father and Martin were in a great state about you, but I could not wait to explain. Anything I could have said would only have added to their anxiety, and that was not as great as my own, for I had my own fears of what had happened and they knew nothing." "Yes, yes.
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