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Updated: May 15, 2025
"I'll tell them all about it; and I'd better be going back to the hotel, for if the steamer leaves on Tuesday, we'll have lots to do." As we were walking homeward on the sea-wall, Rectus looked back and suddenly exclaimed: "There! Do you see that Crowded Owl following us? He's been hanging round us all the afternoon. He's up to something.
However, I had climbed up worse places than that, and Rectus was very nimble; so I felt there was no great danger. Up he went, hand over hand, and putting his toes into nicks every now and then, thereby helping himself very much. He took it slowly and easily, and I felt sure he would be all right.
"It's gone, long ago," said I; "and I'm afraid Rectus has lost his way, either going there or coming back." I said this as much to myself as to my companion, for I had walked back a little to look up the path. I could not see far, for it was growing dark. I was terribly worried about Rectus, and would have gone to look for him, but I was afraid that if I left Mr.
Most of the ladies were to get into this boat, and some of the officers held back the men who were crowding forward. Among the others held back were Rectus and I, and as Corny was between us, she was pushed back, too. I do not know how the boat got to the water, nor when she started down.
We were rapidly leaving them, but we saw the boys climb on board, and one of them it must have been Scott waved his handkerchief to us. I waved mine in return, but Rectus kept his in his pocket. I don't think he felt in a wavy mood.
"All right," I answered. "Sea-beans?" said Maiden's Heart, who had caught the word; "you want sea-beans?" "Yes," said Rectus, "if you have any good ones." At this, the Indian conducted us into the hall, put the lamp on the table, and took three or four sea-beans from his pocket. They were very nice ones, and beautifully polished. "Good," said I; "we'll take these. How much, Maiden's Heart?"
"They ought to be kept within bounds." I couldn't help laughing at this change of tune, but said that I supposed only a few of them got leave of absence at a time. "Well," said Rectus, "there are some of them that ought never to come out." "Hello!" said old Menendez, sticking his head up above the edge of the wharf. "We're ready now. Git aboard."
"No," said I, "I'm going myself," and I began to take off my clothes. The colored fellows didn't like it much, for it seemed like taking their business away from them; but they couldn't help it, and so they just sat and waited to see how things would turn out. "You'd better take a look through the glass, before you dive," said Rectus, "and choose what you're going to get."
"They don't appear to want another queen," I said, "for they wont take one that is right under their noses." Corny looked provoked, and Rectus asked me how I knew that. "I tell you," said Corny, "it don't make any difference whether they want her or not, they haven't any right to make a born queen sit on a stone and sell red-peppers. Do you know what Rectus and I have made up our minds to do?"
But it was probably impossible for him to regulate his own movements this time, for his father and mother were coming with him, to see him off. I had no one there to see me off, but I did not care for that. I was sixteen years old, and felt quite like a man; whereas Rectus was only fourteen, and couldn't possibly feel like a man unless his looks very much belied his feelings.
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