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"But where would she go?" said Mr. Maynard, hopelessly. "She never travelled alone, and though impulsively mischievous, sometimes, she wouldn't deliberately run away." The policemen went away to begin their quest, and the Maynards and their guests went to breakfast. No one felt like eating, yet each urged the others to do so. "Where's Middy?" inquired baby Rosamond, at table. "Middy gone 'way?"
Rosalys and her brother could not help laughing. 'What a funny sailor you'd make, they said. And indeed it was not easy to imagine her short, compact, roundabout figure climbing up masts and darting about with the monkey-like swiftness of a smart little middy. 'I don't think you'd like it for long, Miss Biddy, said Jane, the young maid.
I might say a word to him and save it, but if I did I should be saving them young monkeys too, and look at that now! if that arn't Master Aleck's boat coming round the pynte! They sees it too bless 'em! Now they'll be arter him, safe. That'll save the middy, but it won't save Master Aleck. Strikes me I'd better put my netting away and clear the decks for action."
Betty went in to get her middy blouse, and Bob pumped pail after pail of water and carried it to the barn. One pump supplied the whole farm, house and barns. The two cows, three horses, and the pigs and chickens were watered thrice daily by the patient Ki. Cold water was not the only difficulty Betty encountered when she came to the actual washing.
A young middy lifted Staines in his arms from the wreck to the boat; he whose person I described in chapter one weighed now no more than that. Men are not always rougher than women. Their strength and nerve enable them now and then to be gentler than buttery-fingered angels, who drop frail things through sensitive agitation, and break them.
"Just so and may I ask " "The figure," resumed the Moor, taking no notice of the interruption, "is to be one of my women slaves." Here he turned his head slightly and gave a brief order to the negress in waiting, who retired by the door behind her. The middy stood silent for a minute or so, lost in wonder and expectation, when another door opened and a female entered.
And Carnaby, too, whose youth was being embittered by unnecessary economies: Carnaby, who had so little pocket-money that he was a laughing-stock among his fellows it was for Carnaby these sacrifices were being made! Strange traditions! Fetiches of family pride almost as grotesque to her thinking as those of any savages under the sun. "My poor dear Middy!" she thought.
"Yes, dear," said Cousin Jack, for no one else could speak. "Middy's gone away for a little while." "I know," said the child, contentedly, "Middy gone to Gramma's to see Kitty!" "Why, perhaps she did!" exclaimed Mr. Maynard. But Mrs. Maynard had no such hope. It was too unlike Marjorie to do such a thing. "Well, let's find out," urged King. "Let's get Uncle Steve on the long-distance wire."
Tom Bodger had just removed the last stone into a big recess, which had probably been formed by the smugglers to hold them, when the middy turned round sharply upon a dark figure which had, unseen before, been following them. "Hallo!" he cried. "Who are you?" "It's me, sir Dunning, sir the captain's gardener, sir. Come to see, sir, if I could be of any help."
"If you please," said the middy, presenting his cocked hat to the captain, "I did draw my dirk to kill him, but you ran away so fast that I couldn't catch you." "Very well, sir, you may go down to the boat and wait for orders," replied the captain.
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