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Updated: May 6, 2025
"I found a note under the door this morning, David, left there mysterious-like during the night. It was left by the fairies, I daresay, although the 'and-writing was scarcely wot you'd call dainty." Joey pulled a knowing wink. "Dick Cronk," announced David. "He came up with me. Braddock is in the city, Joey." "Sit down in that chair by the winder, David. So! Wot a 'andsome chap you've got to be!
"I reckon I can give a pretty good guess what you mean by shaking your wise old head that way, Thad, and looking sorter mysterious-like," declared Davy Jones; who seldom showed the proper amount of respect to the acting scout-master, that by rights he should. "Then tell us all about it, Davy; because we want to know," demanded Step-hen.
Well, it being away in the night and stormy, and all so mysterious-like, I felt just the way any other boy would a felt when I see that wreck laying there so mournful and lonesome in the middle of the river. I wanted to get aboard of her and slink around a little, and see what there was there. So I says: "Le's land on her, Jim." But Jim was dead against it at first.
This was something larger and more mysterious-like the hot wind that sometimes blew from the south and made people gloomy and angry like the rank weeds that grew in certain fields, and if the sheep fed there they dropped and died. The Boy felt that he hated this unknown, wicked, unhappy thing more than anything else in the world. He would like to save people from it.
He beckoned very mysterious-like and led the Parson a couple of hundred yards up the foreshore, with Arch'laus Spry following. And there they came to a halt, all three, before a rock that someone had been daubing with whitewash. On the top of the cliff, right above, was planted a stick with a little white flag. "Now, Sir, as a Justice of the Peace, what d'ee think of it?"
Well, it being away in the night and stormy, and all so mysterious-like, I felt just the way any other boy would a felt when I see that wreck laying there so mournful and lonesome in the middle of the river. I wanted to get aboard of her and slink around a little, and see what there was there. So I says: "Le's land on her, Jim." But Jim was dead against it at first.
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