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Oh, why papa is dead," said Noll, with a little quiver in his voice which he could not possibly prevent, he was so lonely and homesick. Old Hagar gave a shrill wail and set her candle down. "Now don't tell me dat!" she cried. "Mas'r Oliver dead? Well, well, honey, we dunno nuffin on dis yer Rock? De whole ob creation might cum to an' end, an' we nebber hear on't. An' you's all alone now, chile?"
This Filipino who was so patiently following Sergeants Hal and Noll appeared to belong to the well-to-do class. Certainly he was an immaculate dandy. He was about five feet two inches in height, and wore neat-fitting, well-tailored white duck garments. The blouse was buttoned down in front, a military, braided white collar standing up stiffly, rendering the wearing of a shirt unnecessary.
They gathered basket after basket full of sea flowers and weeds of vivid dye, to be pressed and packed for transportation to Hastings, and such quantities of shells, with an occasional pebble of agate or carnelian, that Ned laughingly declared, "I'll have just all the baggage the 'Gull' can float under, Noll.
It was hardly such a reason as he had expected to hear, and what to reply he did not know. "Noll always was the funniest fellow ever since I knew him!" he thought to himself. Noll waited, and tried to look into his friend's face, and feared that Ned did not comprehend his motives, after all. At last he said, "Don't you understand?"
Noll overheard one old fish-wife say, "We ben't slick 'nough for new housen; ther'll hev to be great scrubbin' an' scourin' that day, eh, Janet?" to her slatternly daughter-in-law; and the boy mentally prayed that this opinion would gain ground among all the fish-folk.
'Spects 'twon't be so allus, chile, de Lord helpin'." Noll ate his supper, bade Hagar good-night, admonishing her to "be sure and have the medicines ready the first thing!" and groped his way to the library, where his uncle was sitting at his organ. Trafford stopped playing the instant the door opened, and as Noll drew near, put his arm about him, saying,
From east to west there were no clouds, and nothing to hinder the sunbeams from finding the earth and working wondrous charms on land and rock and sea. They stood for a few minutes there, one of them, at least, enjoying the wide view very much, then Noll said, "We'll go up the shore, if you'd as lief, Uncle Richard. It's much pleasanter that way, I think."
"All yer frien's said as how I was to bring ye back on the 'Gull," called the skipper after him, as Noll went running across the sand toward the house. "Oh, how I wish No! I can't go, skipper; it's no use talking," Noll answered back as he gained the piazza, and there sat down to open his precious missives.
"I never saw a more beautiful spot. I wonder if there are many like it in the tropics?" "Beautiful?" rumbled Kelly. "Sure! But ye can't eat beauty. 'Tis a long way from anywhere, this spot, and that's what I've got against it." "Grumbling again, Kelly?" asked Sergeant Noll Terry, joining them. "Not grumbling," retorted Kelly. "Just giving my opinion.
"You may believe I'm glad to see you!" said Noll; "I never was so glad to see anything as the old 'Gull' in my life; and oh, why didn't you come earlier, skipper?" Ben laughed. "I knowed ye hev a hard time on't," he said; "reckoned ye'd be glad ter see the old skipper once more. An', lad, how goes it?" Mr. Snape came up just here, drawling, "What ye think o' the winters down 'ere, now, lad?"
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