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He left a message for you and, dear me, you should have heard how he praised my coffee!" It was presently followed by the head of Miss Belcher, who nodded cheerfully, blinking a little in the level light of the sunset. "Hallo!" said she, addressing Plinny, while she adjusted the hat upon her brow. "Have you been telling the Captain about our visitor?"
"With your leave, ma'am," Plinny went on, "I have come to think otherwise. To begin with, but for Captain Branscome the map would never have found its way to the Major's room, where Harry discovered it; but might nay, probably would have been stolen by the wicked man who committed this crime to get possession of it. Again, but for Mr.
"Your poor father, Harry But be sure their sins will find them out! Mr. Rogers is setting the runners on track he is most kind. Already he has had two hundred handbills printed. We are offering a hundred pounds reward more if necessary and the whole country is up " "Plinny dear" I tried to steady my voice as I stood and faced her "are you trying to tell me that that my father has been murdered?"
While I stood there, summoning up courage to invade the summer-house and make sure, my brain harked back to Captain Coffin and the man Aaron Glass. Captain Coffin had taken leave of me in a fever to reach Minden Cottage. That was close on sixty hours ago three nights and two days. Why, in that ample time, had he not arrived, and what had become of him? Plinny had seen no such man.
I could have wrung her hand; but Plinny, having finished her justification of the ways of Providence, had taken off her spectacles and was breathing on them and polishing them with a small silk handkerchief which she ever kept handy for that purpose. "Captain Branscome," said Miss Belcher, sharply, "will you be so good as to give us your opinion?" Captain Branscome lifted his head.
And still while he addressed us he seemed to be considering. "Think of this fellow's face when he got his treasure across to the mainland and attempted to trade it! To be sure, he gave us some fun for our pains " "If you call it fun, sir," protested Plinny. "Well, yes, ma'am," he answered quietly, kneeling and lifting Glass's head, and resting it across his thigh.
But I distrusted the man; and Plinny had scarcely left me before, having made sure that Mr. Rogers and Mr. Goodfellow were within easy call, I rose up softly, crept to the dining-room window, and, dropping upon hands and knees close by the wall, peered into the room.
I stood before it, attempting to picture the tragedy of which, here in the clear morning, it told nothing to help me. My thoughts were still running on Captain Coffin and the French prisoner. Plinny for I had questioned her cautiously plainly knew nothing of any such man. They might, however, have entered by the side-gate.
Plinny, with the help of half a dozen of Miss Belcher's men and a couple of waggons, had employed these three days in removing our furniture to the great cricket pavilion above the hill; an excellent storehouse, where, for the time, it would remain in charge of Mr. Saunders, the head keeper.
Beauregard addressed himself to the ladies, of whom Miss Belcher sat with a corrugated brow, as though turning a thought over and over in her mind, and Plinny with scared eyes, staring into vacancy. "I am sorry, indeed, ladies," said the Doctor, "that I could not have spared you this. The fool shot his mate you saw it yourselves without rhyme or reason.
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