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"Because you are to have rice-pudding and thick cream instead!" continued Kate. The captain's face shortened again into a beaming smile. Liffie Lee appeared at the moment with the viands named. "I never saw anything like it!" exclaimed Jessie with a short laugh, and a look of resignation. "I enjoy it so much!" said Kate, pouring out the cream with liberal hand.
But Captain Bream was a man of resolution. He stuck to his point and pleaded his own cause so powerfully that the sisters began to waver. "But think," urged Kate, who did the most of the fighting, "you forget Liffie Lee. She is no longer a mere visitor for an hour or two of a morning, as she used to be, but a regular hired servant and we could not leave her behind." "I know that.
He is so violent in his actions that I constantly feel as if I should be run over and killed. It feels like living in the same house with a runaway mail coach. How fortunate that his spirit is so gentle and kind!" A tremendous crash at that moment caused Jessie to stop with a gasp. "Hallo! fetch a swab a dish-clout or somethin', Liffie," came thundering from the captain's room.
When that point was reached, it was found to be so late that the streets were almost deserted, and the particular part in which their lodging stood was dreadfully silent. "How am I ever to get home?" asked Ruth. "It is not more than twenty doors off," said Kate, "and Liffie will go with you." "Lawks, ma'am," said Liffie, "what could the likes o' me do if we was attacked?
She was at the time about to leave the house in undisturbed possession of its owners or rather, occupiers. "Does a Miss Seaward live here?" It was a dark passage, and Liffie Lee almost quaked at the depth and metallic solemnity of the voice, as she glanced up at the spot where it appeared to come from. "Yes, sir." "May I see her?" "I I'll see, sir, if you'll wait outside, sir."
"What's that!" exclaimed Jessie, with a start that caused Ruth almost to shriek. "Cats!" said Liffie Lee. "Impossible!" said Kate. But it was not impossible, for there, in a corner not far off, were dimly seen two intensely black objects, with backs and tails arranged on the moorish-arch principle, and a species of low thunder issuing from them, suggestive of dynamite in the stomach.
He seized the weapon, and Liffie uttered an involuntary squeal of delight as she saw him sweep up nearly the whole of his first helping, and make one bite of it! He then attempted to smile at Liffie's expression of joy, but did it awkwardly in the circumstances. Just as he had finished his little repast, and was tranquilly stirring a breakfast cup of coffee, the door bell rang.
An' then I should 'ave to return alone!" "That is true," said the tender-hearted Jessie; "what is to be done? Our landlady goes to bed early. It would never do to rouse her and then, she may perhaps be as great a coward as we are. Oh! if there was only a man in the house. Even a boy would do." "Ah! I jist think 'e would," said Liffie. "If little Billy was 'ere, I wouldn't ax for no man."
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