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Hetherton's handkerchief, slightly turned her head at first, and, as the party swept by, stopped her reading entirely and involuntarily started forward, while a smile of pleasure flitted across her face as Fanny's black, saucy eyes took her, with others, within their range of vision, and Fanny's black head nodded a quick nod of recognition. The Hethertons and Mrs.
Hetherton, I'm going to leave you in command of the ship this time. I shall command the shore party." Lieutenant Hetherton's face fell, but all he said was: "Very well, sir." "In the meantime," said Jack, "pick fifty men and set them ashore. We'll be there directly." Lieutenant Hetherton saluted and left the cabin. Half an hour later Jack led his men around the reef.
It was four o'clock when, with her aunt, she arrived at Colonel Hetherton's and found the family assembled upon the broad piazza, the doctor dutifully holding the skein of worsted from which Miss Fanny was crocheting, and Lucy playing with a kitten, whose movements were scarcely more graceful than her own, as she sprang up and ran to welcome Anna. "Oh, yes, I am delighted to go with you.
"Who is she?" Anna asked, and Mr. Leighton replied: "She is an orphan niece of Colonel Hetherton's, and a great heiress, I believe, though I never paid much attention to the absurd stories told concerning her wealth." "You met in Europe?" Mrs. Meredith said, and he replied: "Yes, she has been quite an invalid, and has spent four years abroad, where I accidentally met her.
Therefore, in lieu of any other clue as to the whereabouts of the submarine, I deem it well to act on what information, we have." "It won't hurt anything, that's sure, sir," was Lieutenant Hetherton's comment. In this the other officers agreed. "Very well then," said Jack. "It shall be as I suggested. Mr. Chadwick, will you shape your course for the point I have mentioned."
Do you ever meet Arthur there? Oh, here he comes," and with a bound, Lucy darted away from Anna toward the spot where the rector stood receiving Mrs. and Miss Hetherton's greeting.
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