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I only came for a cruise, and it has been a splendid one; and it seems to be quite absurd that I should be getting anything at all. Still, it will be jolly, because I shall be able to make Carrie and Gerald nice presents, with my own money; and to send some home to Mr. Medlin and his family, and something to uncle, too, if I can think of anything he would like."
"I was just thinking how astonished my uncle would be, if he were to see us." Mr. Medlin gave a hearty laugh. "Not so much as you would think, Bob. Five years ago, my employer suddenly asked me, just as we were shutting up one afternoon, if I was fond of fishing. I said that I used to be. "He said, 'I am going down, for a fortnight, into Hampshire.
Now, that is an example of what I mean." "Quite so, Mr. Medlin, that is just what I meant, too; and it was much better than throwing stones at him. It is a savage beast, though it does look so demure; and scratched Jack's hand and mine, horribly, when we were tying on the bands."
Once or twice he had gone down into the counting house, with his uncle; and waited there a few minutes, until the foreman was disengaged. He had noticed Mr. Medlin at work at his high desk, in one corner keeping, as it seemed to him, his eye upon two young clerks, who sat on high stools at opposite sides of the desk, on the other side of the office. Mr.
Well, one day I spoke to Crop to stay by the shanty and take care of the things, while I went to find out who it was that was medlin' with our property, and started off on my line of traps. I got up into the crotch of a great birch near one of 'em, and sat there with my rifle, waitin' for something to turn up. It was a little after noon when I got located.
Medlin, he ran staggering up the slope to the gateway. "Mrs. Treacher!" he panted, dumping down his burden, "I er it so happens that I have no small change about me." "Me either," said Mrs. Treacher, idiomatically, and bent over the basket. "What's this?" "You will forgive my mentioning it, Mrs. Treacher; but these good fellows very likely expected a sixpence or so for their trouble.
My wife was a little afraid of him; but there was no occasion, and everything went off capitally except that Sophy would not produce her piccolo. I walked back with him, till he came upon a hackney coach. "He said as he got in, 'I have spent a most pleasant evening, Medlin. You are a very lucky fellow.
Well, I didn't tell you at the time where I was, because I was ordered not to; but your uncle said to me, the evening before: "'I am going to drive down by coach to Windsor, Mr. Medlin, and shall be glad if you will accompany me. "I guessed he wanted to talk about things outside the business, and so it was. We had a capital dinner down there, and then we had a long talk about you.
This was a kind of medlin' with my private concerns that I didn't like, and I was bound to find out who the interloper was, and if possible, to make his acquaintance. There was no snow on the ground, and I couldn't get at his track. So I made up my mind to watch for him.
Banfield, "'Granted, ma'am, I said, 'but, food or no food, I'd sooner swallow it than believe what you were tellin' just now." "And what was that?" asked the Commandant, turning on Mrs. Medlin. "Why, sir, knowing the Lord Proprietor to be no friend of yours " "Hush, Mrs. Medlin hush, if you please!" "Of course, sir, if you don't want to hear "
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