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They changed the name from McNabb's Landin' to Terrace City, an' I turned a many a good dollar for buildin' sites. "The second summer brought Fred Orcutt, an' I practically give him the best lot of the whole outfit to build his bank on.
Without parley he slipped over the side and down the ladder into the boat, which he drew broadside to the ladder and there held it until Charley, who followed, was seated astern. "Where you wantin' to go now?" asked the boy. "To the boat landin'?" "Just anywhere ashore," directed Charley. "Let's land over where I can climb that hill and have a look around."
And then to see the little critter shake herself when she gets up, like a duck landin' from a pond, a-chatterin' away all the time like a canary bird, and you a haw-hawin' with pleasure, is fun alive, you may depend. In this way Bluenose gets led on to offer himself as a lovier, afore he knows where he bees. "But when he gets married, he recovers his eyesight in little less than half no time.
I ast him had he killed his skunk an' he laughed an' said, 'I made him pretty sick anyway. I'd told the boys to have the flares out at the park as I was a-goin' to test the machine, so I didn't have no trouble in landin'." He stopped and rolled a cigarette. "That's all you know, is it?" the coroner asked. "That's all I know, so help me Henry but ain't it enough?"
Hardly a minute had passed, when out of the shadows that hid the entrance to Beaver Dam, there came slowly a skiff into the clear water. It approached to within fifteen feet of the hidden boys, when they recognized a voice, distinctly saying: "I hope that guy Franklin's ben up to the landin' an' left the note where I tol' him to, an' don't try no shenanigan."
"That you, Donaldson? Have either of those women come back?" "No," and I thought the sheriff's answer was barely cordial. "We ain't seen nobody. What did you learn down at the Landin'?" "Nothing," savagely. "Haven't found a damn trace, except that Haines hasn't been home since before dark; some nigger came for him then. Is that girl safe inside?" "Sure; just as you left her, but she won't talk.
"Readin' on the stair landin'. At least she was when I came up. She was in the window-seat." "Then wait until I take something into her room. I'll tell you when I am ready, and you may call her up." Lloyd hung over the banister in the upper hall until she heard a whispered "Ready;" then she called: "Come up heah, Elizabeth, mothah wants us a minute in yo' room." Mrs.
"What!" roared the captain: rising to his feet and advancing threateningly. "Yer mean ter tell me, yer rapscallion, that yer don't recall landin' at Topsail Island earlier ter-night and givin' me a note which says ter come urgent and immediate ter see young Rob Blake here?" "Why, captain," calmly returned Hank, with an indulgent grin, "I really think you must be gettin' childish in your old age.
"Well, he's a trump, is Mr. Stanley, at least folks say so; and he'll say right off the reel 'onquestionably it is excellent policy. "When he says that, you have him bagged, he may flounder and spring like a salmon jist caught; but he can't out of the landin' net. You've got him, and no mistake. Sais you 'what outlet have you for the colonies?
He told me 'bout it comin' up on the boat, an', betwixt us, we sort'r fixed up a way ter stack ther cards. Here's how it all happened: Thar wus an ol' planter livin' down in Missoury at a place called Beaucaire's Landin'. His name wus Beaucaire, an' he hed a son named Bert, a damn good-fer-nuthing cuss, I reckon.
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