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The arrival of Major Malcolm was eagerly looked for, but in vain, and it was resolved to send Quashie off at dark, with an account of their now truly desperate condition. He was confident of being able as before to get through the enemy's lines.
A little farther on we encountered four beautiful nine pounder fieldpieces, each lumbering along, drawn by half a dozen mules, and accompanied by three or four negroes, but with no escort whatsoever. "I say, quashie, where are the bombardiers, the artillerymen?" "Oh, massa, dem all gone to drink pruce." "What, more spruce! spruce nothing but spruce!" quoth I.
"Well, Quashie," said Jack, who was kind-hearted as well as brave, "you had better come along with us, and we will take care of you till father comes back as I hope he will. Where is your mother?" "Mother lib wid Massa Twigg she call Martha," he answered. "Oh, then I know her. She nurses the children. All right, Quashie. Cheer up; you shall have something to eat as soon as we get back," said Jack.
"I bring message from Massa Pemberton," he said. "Where is it?" asked Mr Twigg. "Here, massa," answered Quashie, presenting his woolly pate. "You take it out, please." Martha, however, performed the operation; and the note being eagerly read, a consultation was held on its contents, which considerably raised the spirits of the besieged party, lowered as they had been by the loss of Archie Sandys.
Dinner was nearly over, when Baron B 's aide de camp slid into the room. Monsieur B rose. "Captain Latour, you are welcome be seated. I hope you have not dined?" "Why no," said the negro officer, as he drew a chair, while he exchanged glances with the beautiful Eugenie, and sat himself down close to el Senor Bang. "Hillo, Quashie!
In that case, it would not be safe to leave Walton without a garrison, as the fugitives, if they found it unguarded as they made their way to the mountains, would to a certainty in revenge destroy it. "We must wait patiently till the evening, and then Quashie shall go and bring us word what they are about," he added.
It would not, however, prevent the necessity of sending off Quashie to urge that aid might at once be despatched. Fortunately a long pole, which Mr Twigg had intended to put up for that purpose on a neighbouring height, had been brought to the house to be prepared by the carpenter.
I was fascinated with terror, and could not move a muscle; at length the creature slowly swung itself up again, and disappeared amongst the branches. Quashie gained courage, as the rum began to operate, and the snake to disappear. "Come to catch Quaccols Duppy, before him get to Africa, sure as can be.
"We hurried off as soon as Quashie arrived," said Jack, "but he with a misadventure, and was captured by some rebels who, though they could make nothing of him, detained him, and he had no little difficulty in making his escape.
We were much pleased with Major Malcolm, who appears to be greatly struck by her." Quashie evidently felt the importance of the message confided to him, and was proportionately proud. "Neber fear, massa, I git into de house and out again, and no one see me," he said, strutting about after the note had been concealed in the top of his woolly pate.
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