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Stephen, overflowing with joy, and quite rickety with emotion, flew at his old friend, and, instead of kicking him, caught hold of his arm, and turning to his brother, cried, "Oh, Noll! isn't this prime? Why, here's old Wray " "That beast Wraysford," suggested the owner of the title; "do give a fellow his proper name, young 'un."
She prepared supper in the dining-room, muttering to herself about the lonesomeness and silence of the house since "Mas'r Noll dun gone off;" and when the solitary meal was in readiness, put her head in at the library-door and called her master to tea.
Fortunately, however, he brought the child safe down again; and the event was afterwards considered an omen that Noll would reach a very elevated station in the world. One morning, when Noll was five or six years old a royal messenger arrived at Hinchinbrooke with tidings that King James was coming to dine with Sir Oliver Cromwell.
He was still smiling, but there was now something so insistent in his voice that Noll answered quickly: "Because we cannot accept gifts from strangers." "Ah, but you do not yet know the Orient. You must have things here; you must have money to spend, and feel the pleasure of spending it, or you will die." "Thank you," laughed Sergeant Hal, "but at present my health is excellent.
"Don't you see, Noll?" he explained in answer to the inquiry of his brother's stare, "don't you see that we fought there almost in the dark and without witnesses. It...." he swallowed, "it will be called murder, fair fight though it was; and should it be discovered that it was I...." He shivered and his glance grew wild; his lips twitched.
He noted the tall cases of books and the open organ, and unconsciously these evidences of taste and refinement made the thought of dwelling in the stone house more acceptable. If Uncle Richard would only care for him, he thought, all the rest would not matter. Trafford let go his hand, saying, "Go and get your supper, Noll; Hagar will show you. Then, if you like, you can come back."
The day on which the decision was to be made he came into the library, where Trafford sat, saying, gravely, "Uncle Richard, to-day I was to choose, you know; and I would rather stay at Culm Rock and be your boy than to go back. May I?" "May you?" exclaimed Trafford, on the impulse of the moment, while even his heavy heart was glad. "How can you ask that? Oh, Noll! do you know what you are doing?"
"Didn't dis yer ole woman tell ye so? Ki! I knowed how 'tw'u'd be las' night." "It does seem pleasanter," Noll admitted; "and where's Uncle Richard?" "Mas'r Dick? He's in de libr'y; goin' to call him dis minnit.
"What puzzles me," muttered Noll, "is why the government doesn't send troops enough here to wind up the thing in short order. The whole of our first battalion of the Thirty-fourth, for instance, ought to take the field at once, backed by a platoon of light artillery. We ought to be sent to chase Hakkut clean across the island and into the ocean on the other side of Mindanao."
"Keep your consciousness and enjoy it," retorted Noll, as the two boyish sergeants stepped along the deck. "I wonder if Captain Cortland is on deck at this moment?" remarked Sergeant Hal. "I saw him five minutes ago," Noll answered. Almost at that moment B Company's commander came to the forward rail of the saloon deck and looked down. Then his glance rested on Hal.
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