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Then raising him to his feet he shoved him over the rack in the hedge, and led him past Mrs. Mugford's windows, where a rushlight was burning, into the road and so to the stables at Bracefort.
John had only six dogs, but he told us we should be able to get an additional team at William Mugford's two miles beyond Rigolet.
Each boy pocketed his fragment of wood in silence. Jack Vance tried to crack a joke, but it was a miserable failure. "There was something I wanted to say," began "Rats" thoughtfully. "I shall remember it in a minute. Oh, bother!" "What's up?" "Why, I know what it was; Mugford's talking about writing to him reminded me of it.
Acton folded Diggory to his breast in a loving embrace, Shaw and Morris stuffed the door-key down Mugford's back, while the remainder of the company executed a war-dance round Jack Vance. "My eye," cried the dux, "won't the Philistines be wild! Fancy upsetting them in the mud, and knocking Bernard's wind out! They won't be in a hurry to meddle with us again. Well done, Diggy!"
"Four halfpenny stamps, and half a frank on my watch-chain," was the reply. "But I don't think these railway Johnnies 'ud take either of those." On examination, the only articles of value Mugford's pockets were found to contain were an aluminium pencil-case which wouldn't work, and a dirty scrap of indiarubber. "Look here," cried Carton, "I'll give you two shillings.
At the near prospect of separation all Mugford's little failings were forgotten, and both Diggory and Jack Vance felt that life without him would be a blank. "Oh, dash it all!" said the latter; "you mustn't go? Isn't there anything we can do? Shall I write to your guv'nor?"
The three boys returned the salutation in a manner which, to say the least, was not very cordial, and made some attempt to pass on their way; but the new-comer refused to see that he was not wanted, and insisted on taking Mugford's arm and accompanying them on their stroll. "I say," he continued, addressing Jack Vance, "were you at Todderton these holidays? I don't think I saw you once."
There seemed only one way out of the difficulty, and that was to put as it were an execution into Mugford's desk, and realize a certain amount of his private property. "Look here," said Acton, "he must sell something. Now, then," he added, turning to the defendant, "just shell out something and bring it here at once, and we'll have an auction."
Just then I saw and how the blood coursed with one cold sweep from my heart and back again amid the hot flames of the burning wreck, Captain Mugford's figure. He sprang from the deck to the rocks and was rushing towards the house. I turned and called the good news, but found that Juno and I were alone.
Mugford's nose was bleeding, Jack Vance's collar seemed to have been nearly torn off his neck, while Diggory's cap was in his hand, and his hair in a state of wild disorder. Their faces, flushed with running, were radiant with a look of triumph, while all three, the unfortunate Mugford included, leaned up against the wall, and laughed until the tears ran down their cheeks.
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