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Updated: May 25, 2025
The sky was still softly suffused with the clear rose and amber of the sunset when he leaned over the wall, as he filled his pipe, and looked out into the darkening road. "Har-Héri! Qué-hou-hou!" croaked a hoarse little voice in the hedge opposite. "Hello, Johnnie-boy! That you?" "Where you bin te-day?" "Where have I been? Down in Little Sark, prowling about the mines, stealing lumps of silver "
She and Barrow had compromised on that after a deal of discussion. Manlike, he had wished to be married as soon as she accepted him, and she had held out far a date that would permit her to accumulate a trousseau according to her means. "A girl only gets married once, Johnnie-boy," she had declared.
"Johnnie-boy," she said suddenly, "don't look so cross. Surely you don't blame me because Mr. Bush wills me a sum of money in a way that makes people wonder?" "I can't understand it at all," he said slowly. "It's very peculiar and deucedly unpleasant. Why should he leave you money at all? And why should he word the will as he did? What wrong did he ever do you?" "None," Hazel answered shortly.
But that's no reason why we should let it bother us. If he's really so badly hurt, the chances are he's out of his head. Don't scowl at that bit of paper so, Johnnie-boy." Barrow laughed and kissed her, and the subject was dropped forthwith. Later they went out for a short walk. In an hour or so Barrow left for home, promising to have the concert tickets for Thursday night.
"And would you be doing anything with the lead?" "Oh, we'd be keeping the lead going all the time, for banging her across and back like that you wouldn't know where you were just." "And would you come clear, d'y' think?" "Yes, sir if the gear held and with an able vessel we ought to." "If the gear held that's it. Be sure, Johnnie-boy, you see that the gear is all right before ever you leave port.
"Lord, Johnnie-boy, no wonder everybody loves you. No matter what a man does, all you see is the best that's in him." It was time to clean up then, and Johnnie of course was bound to help. "What'll I do with this?" asked Johnnie, in the middle of the cleaning up, holding up a pan of sweepings. "Oh, that" Clancy naturally took charge "heave it overboard. Ebb tide'll carry it away.
"Why" Johnnie was looking troubled "why, I'd have to stand in just the same, wouldn't I?" "Your own men and you ask me, Johnnie-boy?" "Why, of course I'd have to stand in and get them." "And if you got in so far you couldn't get out you got smothered, say?" "Why, then then we'd be lost all hands would be lost." Poor Johnnie! he was all but crying. "That's it.
And that's where some would say you showed yourself a man, and some a fool, Johnnie-boy. Some would say, 'Use judgment think of the other eighteen or twenty men safe aboard the vessel. Would you use judgment, or what, Johnnie?" "M-m I don't know. What would you do, Captain Clancy?" "What d'y' think I'd do, Johnnie?" Clancy drew the boy up and tucked the little face to his own broad breast.
"And how's she heading, Johnnie-boy?" and taking a seat stood Johnnie up beside him. "East-s'uth-east, and a fair, fair wind," answered Johnnie. "East-s'uth-east my, but you said that fine. And a fair wind? Must be bound Georges Bank way. And how long will you hold that course?" "From Eastern Point a hundred and thirty-five mile." "Yes and then?" "Then you throw her up and heave the lead."
"All right," said Clancy, "but wait a minute who's that in the gangway?" It turned out to be Johnnie Duncan. He had a fat bundle under his arm, and bundle and all Clancy took him up, tossed him into the air, said "All right again, Johnnie-boy?" and kissed him when he caught him down. Johnnie started to undo his bundle.
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