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Updated: September 14, 2025
"Nephy," said the captain in a hoarse whisper, putting his face close to that of Ruby, "mum's the word! Silence, mystery, an' all that sort o' thing. Don't appear to be an old friend, lad; and as to Minnie here "`O no, we never mention her, Her name it's never heard. "Allow me to introduce you to Major Stewart, whose house you broke into, you know, Ruby, when:
"Ay, so I was, and hard enough work I had to convince them that I had nothin' to do with it myself, but they saw that I couldn't jump a stone wall eight foot high to save my life, much less break into a house, and they got no further evidence to convict me, so they let me off; but it'll go hard with you, nephy, for Major Stewart described the men, and one o' them was a big strong feller, the description bein' as like you as two peas, only their faces was blackened, and the lantern threw the light all one way, so he didn't see them well.
"She's to be at the end o' the pier in five minutes," said the captain, drawing out and consulting a watch that was large enough to have been mistaken for a small eight-day clock. "This is my nephy, Ruby. Ruby Brand Leftenant Lindsay. True blues, both of ye "`When shall we three meet again?
She'll get good by our afternoon's sail, and we won't be the worse of her company. What say ye to that, nephy?"
When memory failed he supplemented with original composition. "Goodbye, lad, an' Providence go wi' ye." "Goodbye, uncle. I need not remind you to look after mother when I'm away." "No, nephy, you needn't; I'll do it whether or not." "And Minnie, poor thing, she'll need a word of advice and comfort now and then, uncle."
You sees, your honour, as I said afore, I was own sarvant to Colonel Dysart; he was a Lord's nephy, a very gay gentleman, and great hand with the ladies, not a man more in the world; so I had the opportunity of larning what's what among the best set; at his honour's expense, too, augh!
Now, Ruby, if you want a short cruise of an hour or so you may come with me." Ruby smiled at the manner in which this offer was made, and replied: "With pleasure, uncle." "So, then, that's settled too. Good night, nephy." The captain turned on his side, and dropped the pipe on the floor, where it was shivered to atoms. It must not be supposed that this was accidental. It was done on purpose.
Ruby sat down on the floor at his mother's feet as he spoke, and Minnie sat down on a low stool beside him. "Maybe we are, lad," replied the captain; "anyhow, it's always well to be ready 'Ready, boys, ready, We'll fight and we'll conquer again and again'." "Come uncle, explain yourself." "Explain myself, nephy? I can neither explain myself nor anybody else.
Before they'd gone a half mile, them wards of the gov'ment, as I once hears a big chief from Washin'ton call 'em, takes the nephy from this yere fallacious agent an' by fourth drink time that mornin', or when it's been sun- up three hours, that nephy is nothin' but a mem'ry. "How do they kill him? In a fashion which, from the coigne your Apache views things, does 'em proud.
It's this a-way: "It's about a month before, when Captain Moon an' his nephy, with two 8-mule teams and four big three-an'-a-half Bain wagons, two lead an' two trail they be, comes freightin' out of Silver City with their eyes on Wolfville. It's the fourth night out, an' they're camped near a Injun agency.
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