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"It's yours, Watty, old boy," he said to the middy from north of the Tweed. "My God! what will my dear old mother say?" groaned the poor boy, with face grey as his own Border hills in a November drizzle. "Promise me, on your honour, both of you, to keep this miserable business a dead secret for ever.... Well, I've got to face it. Bring the woman in, and let's have it over and get aboard."
"After him!" yelled the middy to his men, as he stood stamping one foot in his excitement; and then turning to Aleck: "If the cat don't scratch his back for this my name's not Wrighton." The communication was made in quite a friendly, confidential way, which brought a response from Aleck: "He'll be too quick for them. The young dogs are as quick as congers." "You wait and you'll see.
And when he finally ventured in through the door, round-eyed and blushing a deep russet, he gaped at my white middy and my little white apron with that silent but eloquent admiration which couldn't fail to warm the cockles of the most unimpressionable housewife's heart. Monday the Twenty-third My Dinky-Dunk is back and oh, the difference to me!
He was pointing with one hand down the stream, but on the middy gazing in the required direction it was too dark to see anything. "I can see none," he said. "Where?" "Two prahus coming up rapidly," said Ali; "be ready to fire." "Not so fast, young sir," said the lieutenant. "Will that steam never be up? Roberts," he cried, "touch the trigger of that life-buoy."
"All ready for letting fall, sir," the middy stationed in the foretop was the first to sing out. This was Dick Popplethorne, a smart lad, who prompted the topmen under his charge to emulate his ready example, so as to get ahead of the others. Larkyns at the maintop was a good second, while Adams at the mizzen was the last; the officer of the watch, on hearing his hail, reporting "All ready!"
That is what one reads, you know, about the young gentlemen always tumbling into trouble, and always getting happily out of it, and always amusing themselves just as much as they amuse others. This was not so bad. Nan's face had brightened; she regarded him with her clear eyes. 'You are thinking of Captain Marryat, said he, laughing. 'But times have changed sadly for the middy since then.
In fact, the middy rather enjoyed his companion's vexation, for he had begun, since his memorable conversation with Miss Linton, to look upon his feelings towards her with a more matter-of-fact eye.
I daresay they could get the stones out from above where they were pushed in." "Perhaps he hasn't gone," said the middy. "Ahoy there!" There was a peculiar sound as of the water rising up and gurgling along a channel, while a lapping sound at their feet told that the water inside was being put in motion. "Why, he has dived down," cried Aleck, suddenly, "so as to try and get to us." "Tchah!
Shall I have to let him go?" cried the middy. "Of course! He got a tremendous crack on the legs from Tom Bodger's stick he was nearly frightened to death; and he has had a thorough ducking. Isn't that enough?" "Well, it will have to be," said the middy, in a disappointed tone. "I meant him to be treed up and flogged." Aleck looked at him in rather an amused fashion.
"`T'ank you, Angelica, says I. `Das all comfrably settled. You's a good gall, kiss me now, an' go away. "So she gib me a kiss an' I turn round an' went sweetly to sleep on de back ob dat for I was awrful tired, an' de ribs was creakin' badly." "Did you marry Angelica?" asked our middy, with sympathetic interest. "Marry her! ob course I did. Two year ago.
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