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"Sarah," she called out. The sound of a typewriter in an inner room ceased. The door was opened and a girl appeared on the threshold. "You won't see me again to-day unless you send up for me," her mistress announced. "Let me have the letters to sign before five. Try and get away early, if you can. The car is going in to Lynton. Perhaps you would like the ride?"
He has ordered a dinner for himself and a friend." "Oh, here you are then," came from behind him the next moment. "I've been looking for you everywhere." "So have I for you," said Lynton, rather surlily. "Oh, I see. I am sorry. You see, I had to find a place where they would give us some dinner. Here, come into my room. This is the place.
"I don't quite see that," said Lynton obstinately, as if he did not like being taught by the American. "Never mind about understanding it," said Briscoe sharply. "We'll work it out afterwards. You must act now." "I am acting," said Lynton. "We're sailing right away." "But the current's taking us up, Lynton," said Brace quickly.
"You shouldn't rouse me like that, my lad. What is it Indians?" Brace told him, and the captain lay back, perfectly till, gazing up at the smoke. "Bless 'em!" he said softly. "That's trouble to-morrow morning then not to-night. Well, have you told Dellow and Lynton?" "No; but Mr Briscoe is telling my brother." "Mr Briscoe, eh? Think he's siding with the men?" "Oh, no: I'm sure he is not."
"That won't be any good for this fellow," cried Lynton; "it's a great shark, I believe. Take the boathook." "No, no; it's too blunt," said Brace. "Look here, Lynton: you go on playing him." "Play! Do you call this play? My arms are being racked." "He must be getting exhausted now. He can't keep on at that very much longer." "Well, if he doesn't soon give way, I shall have to do so."
Savages generally have canoes, bows, spears, and clubs. I don't say it's likely, but some of them might come creeping aboard in the night, and if I was captain I should arm the watch. Ugh! what's that?" he cried, in a horrified tone. "Barrel of my rifle, Mr Briscoe," said Lynton quietly, from out of the darkness. "Why did you do that?" said the American sharply.
"Bound to say you'd want a rope ten times as long as that one up here, and if you had it no gimcrack of a grapnel like that would take hold of the smooth rock bottom." "Well, what else can I do? We seem to be helpless," said Lynton. Briscoe replied, in a most determined voice: "Order out the oars, sir, if you don't want the boat to be swamped and your bones to be picked by these fiends of fish."
"It's getting too late to drift down the river a little way," said Lynton, "and, besides, it wouldn't be safe." "And we should only be getting out of Scylla into Charybdis," said Sir Humphrey. "I should like to be buried in sand up to my nose," cried Brace, whose face was getting terribly swelled.
"It must be allowed," said Monsieur D'Et, "that if this be true, our philosophy is the most useful, though yours may be the most profound." Vincent did not reply. "Yet," said Sir George Lynton, "there will be a disadvantage attending your writings of this description, which, by diminishing their general applicability, diminish their general utility.
"I'm going to have a few words with my two bulldogs, just to put them up to what's going on, and then we shall just keep quiet and take no notice of anything till the lads begin. Then I shall let Dellow and Lynton loose at 'em, holding myself in reserve. That will settle 'em. But if we did seem to be getting the worst of it you three gentlemen might come and lend us a hand."
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