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To accomplish this object fresh advances to an enormous amount were necessary, for M. Ouvrard had to begin by furnishing 2,000,000 of quintals of grain at the rate of 26 francs the quintal. Besides all this, before he could realise a profit and be reimbursed for the advances he had made to the Treasury of Paris, he had to get the piastres conveyed from America to Europe.
"It sounded to me uncommon like the cry of a wounded man," said McCoy. "Didn't sound like that to me," returned Quintal; "more like Mainmast callin' her husband to dinner." As he spoke, Tetaheite appeared at the edge of the garden with a musket in his hand, the other two natives remaining concealed in the bushes.
Ned Quintal, the stoutest and most daring, as well as the oldest of these jumpers, being over eight years, was the best slider. He was on the point of dashing into the sea when Adams and the others arrived on the scene.
"It's like a fortress, with its high perpendicular cliffs," remarked John Adams. "All the better for us," said Quintal; "we'll need some place that's difficult to get at and easy to defend, if one o' the King's ships should find us out."
What more could we wish for?" In a short time they reached the little narrow strip of shingly beach where the boat had been left in charge of Quintal. Here they had to encounter the great difficulty of forcing their way through the surf which had borne them shoreward in such grand style.
Immediately thereafter another canoe was launched, with John Adams and a miscellaneous cargo of children, women, and girls, including graceful Bessy Mills and pretty Sarah Quintal. "Now then, here goes," cried Matt Quintal, wading deep into the surf. "Are you coming, Dan?" "I'm your man," said Dan, following. Both youths raised their hands and leaped together.
Where have you put those sixty quintals of fish which belong to Emile?" "It took more'n half t' voyage, believe me, Doctor, to meet t' summer's expenses. There wasn't more'n thirty quintals all told, and half of that was mine. Samuels only allowed we four dollars a quintal, and his flour was eight, and molasses seventy cents. He said he'd land Emile's share when he comes in on his home trip."
Rain, the first that had descended for many days, fell in fitful showers. It must have seemed to the women either that the elements sympathised with them, or that the extreme darkness was favourable to the execution of their plan, for about midnight one of them rose from her bed, and crept noiselessly to the corner of her hut, where she had seen Quintal deposit a loaded musket the previous day.
Quintal was sitting on a felled tree, looking fiercely at McCoy, who stood beside him. "I tell you the baccy is mine," said Quintal. "It's nothin' o' the sort, it's mine," answered McCoy, snatching the coveted weed out of the other's hand. Quintal jumped up, hit McCoy on the forehead, and knocked him down.
"Twenty quintal come aboard at Highwater Cove. I mind it well." "They been dyin' like flies at Seldom Cove." "Like flies?" Docks repeated, in a hoarse whisper. "Skipper Billy, sir, who who died like that?" Skipper Billy drew his hand over his mouth. "One was a kid," he said, tugging at his moustache. "My God!" Docks muttered. "One was a kid!"
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