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"He insulted you and he insulted my mother," said Walter, with the same deadly calm. "Tonight after school, Dan." "I've got to go right home from school to pick taters after the harrows, dad says," answered Dan sulkily. "But to-morrow night'll do." "All right here to-morrow night," agreed Walter. "And I'll smash your sissy-face for you," promised Dan.
"If you don't mind, sir, night'll be comin' on soon and I think we'd better make sail." "Make sail?" I murmured blankly. "How?" "The bedding, sir," said Triplett. "Of course!" I cried. "All hands abaft to make sail." How we knotted our sheets and blankets together to fashion a rough main-sail would be a tedious recital, for it was slow work.
"They gave 'er ten minutes' start, and then Cap'n Tarbell, arter looking at me and shaking his 'ead, said he was afraid they must be going. "'And I 'ope this night'll be a lesson to you, he ses. 'Don't neglect your dooty again. I shall keep my eye on you, and if you be'ave yourself I sha'n't say anything.
Reddy, ye know the devil as I do; jind now he's got this pile he'll settle us when he sees his way to it." "Let him go, Bucky; let him go. The night'll be on us in an hour or so, and then what'll we do? Leave it to Thirkle and it'll come out all right; and I know it and you know it, Bucky. There's the two of us to him, and we'll make him play it fair now."
No one knew just where they were, and in the storm and darkness reaching Key West harbor would be task enough for an old hand. The cadet realized the enormous responsibility thus thrown upon him, and he made up his mind that eternal vigilance should be the watchword. "If staying awake all night'll do any good," he muttered, "I'll do it."
Everybody was out hunting Murfree up, so we had to stay till I could call Dr. Browne by 'phone and we could get him warmed up once more. I left Gus there, to come and tell you, for I knew you'd worry. I guess this night'll finish poor old Tonguey Murfree! Queer, wasn't it?"
"They gave 'er ten minutes' start, and then Cap'n Tarbell, arter looking at me and shaking his 'ead, said he was afraid they must be going. "'And I 'ope this night'll be a lesson to you, he ses. 'Don't neglect your dooty again. I shall keep my eye on you, and if you be'ave yourself I sha'n't say anything.
"Lew, there's a frosty nip in the water this mornin'," said Jonathan. "I reckon. It's gettin' along into fall now. Any clear, still night'll fetch all the leaves, an' strip the trees bare as burned timber," answered Wetzel, brushing the ashes off the strip of meat he had roasted. "Get a stick, an' help me cook the rest of this chunk of bison.
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