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"Come, Peter," said Hixon, "you and I will set the example then. To my mind the ship won't hold together many minutes longer; and if we succeed, as I think we shall, they will follow if there's time. I'll go sir," he cried to the captain, and grasping Peter, he led him along, holding on to the rope. They reached the mast, when Peter, keeping close to his companion, scrambled up it.
"Sure they do!" agreed Russ. "We'll bring more sugar, and we'll tell Mr. Hixon about it. I guess he'd like to give his sheep the things they like best. They like 'em to grow good and fat." The boys were so interested watching the sheep eat the sugar, that they forgot all about the ram that had seemed so angry because of Margy's red coat.
Lescott gave the odyssey of his wanderings, since he had rented a mule at Hixon and ridden through the country, sketching where the mood prompted and sleeping wherever he found a hospitable roof at the coming of the evening. "Ye come from over on Crippleshin?"
For a while after the battle at Hixon, the county had lain in a torpid paralysis of dread. Many illiterate feudists on each side remembered the directing and exposed figure of Samson South seen through eddies of gun smoke, and believed him immune from death. With Purvy dead and Hollman the victim of his own hand, the backbone of the murder syndicate was broken. Its heart had ceased to beat.
"Are you not going?" asked the captain. "I could not leave you, sir, while you are suffering," said Peter. "But you want food and water as much as they do," said the captain. "They will bring it to me, sir," answered Peter. Notwithstanding what the captain said, neither Peter nor old Hixon would leave him. The latter was busily hauling pieces of planking and rope.
Peter waited till he was sure there could be no mistake, and then hastened down to the captain, feeling that the good news would cheer him up. Bill and the black steward were on the opposite shore collecting mussels. Hixon stood gazing at the stranger for some minutes, and then said to himself, "I had better go too, or maybe they will not tell of the captain and the rest."
How eagerly it was watched, as it floated now in one direction, now in another; gradually it drew out the line; it was hoped that it might be drifted by some surge towards the man, who was eagerly on the watch to catch it. "We must not despair," said Peter to Hixon, who had come to see how the captain was getting on.
"And, Peter, just do you pray for me, and if you see me growing sulky, come and speak to me those words you spoke just now, `Jesus loves you. I don't think I could stand hearing that and go on fighting against Him as I have been so long doing though it's wonderful! very wonderful!" Peter did not fail to do as Hixon asked him. He seldom had occasion to repeat the blessed announcement.
"If he stands all that he will stand anything," growled out old Simon Hixon, who, though not taking so active a part as the rest, had encouraged them in their conduct. Peter at length rose from his knees without saying a word, took off his clothes, and turned into his berth.
He was evidently in deep thought, as though perplexed with something he was trying to make out, but could not understand. "But I suppose a chap must not go and do what he likes after that?" said old Hixon at length, eagerly fixing his eyes on Peter. "No.
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