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Knotting it securely to the top rail of the balustrade, I gave it a strong tug or two to test its strength, making the balcony shake and tremble with the strain. "Do you think it will bear our weight?" asked Tom, anxiously, noticing me do this and feeling the vibratory movement. "Bear our weight, you shrimp," I rejoined, "why, it would hold forty of us, and Dr Hellyer too!"
After tea a couple of hours' rest were allowed for reflection, in the same apartment, during which time the boys were supposed to learn their lessons for the next morning, but didn't Dr Hellyer relegating his authority at this period of the day generally to Smiley, who went to sleep invariably when in charge of the room, or the Cobbler, who as invariably sneaked out and left the pupils to themselves, when the consequences may be readily imagined.
"Then, that forward bulkhead must have started when the fore compartment got full." "No doubt o' that, sir," agreed Hellyer. "Why, the tide covered her after-deck at Six Bells; and the cushions of the settees and a lot o' dunnage were floating about in the saloon below and washing through the ports astern." "Her fo'c's'le, however, keeps high and dry." "Aye, now it do, sir," replied Hellyer.
But, he doesn't think anythink o' this, he says, believin' they has took her into the harbour." "Confound him!" cried the Captain excitedly. "Who was the man? He ought to have known something was wrong when he saw the two lads alone in her like that." "He would be a stranger to you, sir," said Hellyer.
He raised his voice when uttering the last words, as if asking a question; so, the coastguardsman answered it at once. "That it do, sir," he said with decision; "and, if the wind freshen more, as is more'n likely, considerin' it's been backin' all the mornin', I 'spects it'll be pretty rough by night-time!" "Ah, well, so I think, too, Hellyer.
I narrate, therefore, the circumstances that led to my running away from school, merely because my mad and wicked attempt to injure Dr Hellyer is a portion of my life-history, and I wish to describe all that happened to me truthfully, without glossing over a single incident to my discredit.
"Well, I'm not going to put up with it, for one," said I, decisively. "You know, Tom, as soon as my uncle hears of my being expelled, prompted by Aunt Matilda, he will seize the chance of doing what he has long threatened, and `wash his hands of me, and then, why I will be in only just the same plight as if I take French leave of Dr Hellyer now!"
I flew into a passion at once: I felt inclined to kill the unfortunate man. "Come over and take up my box yourself, porter," I cried angrily, my face flaring up furiously as I spoke, I have no doubt. "I shall not forget, either, to complain to Dr Hellyer about your insolence." "Ho, ho, ho, the-at be a good un," laughed the old man from his vantage- ground on the opposite platform.
For this what I considered just retaliation, I received the encomiums of the majority of the fellows, who detested Slodgers for his sneaking as well as bullying ways with the youngsters; but Dr Hellyer, with whom he still continued a favourite, took my triumph in such ill part, that he treated me to no less than six dozen "pandies," incarcerating me besides in an empty coal cellar, on a diet of bread and water, in solitary confinement below for the same length of time that Slodgers was laid up ill in bed above stairs.
"Dr Hellyer will whack that ruler of his into us in the morning, without fail I could see it in his eye as he went out of the room, as well as from that grin he put on when he spoke. I dare say, besides, we won't be allowed a morsel to eat all day; we shall be kept here to watch the other fellows feeding it's a brutal way of paying a chap out, isn't it?"
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