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But now you've got to listen, and I wont let you up till you promise never to call me Rectus again." "The little rascal!" I thought to myself. I might have made some noise in spite of the handkerchief, but I thought it better not, for I didn't know what else he might pile on my mouth. "It isn't my name, and I'm tired of it," he continued.
There couldn't have been better fun for our boys, than to get up a revolution and set up a dethroned queen. But they were not there, and I determined to act as their representative as well as I could. We three Corny, Rectus and I were agreed that the re-enthronement we could think of no better word for the business should be done as quietly and peacefully as possible.
Rectus turned around from the window. "There's no hurry about the merchant," he said. "I want to go to school and college, first." "And that's just where you're going," said his mother, with her face reddening up a little more than common. Mr. Colbert grinned a little, but said nothing.
"Who'd do it?" said I. "The captain in command couldn't. He has no power to let any of them go free." "Well, we might address the notice to the President of the United States in big black letters. They could not conceal such a thing." "Well, now, look here, Rectus," said I; "this thing is going to cost too much money.
There were lots of men with straw hats in St. Augustine. This was true, for it was just as warm here as we have it in June, and we started off to look for a straw-hat store. We found that we were in one of the queerest towns in the world. Rectus said it was all back-streets, and it looked something that way.
He put all this in a good deal of sea-language, but I tell it as I got the sense of it. "Did you think she would go over, Captain?" asked Rectus. "Oh no!" said he, "but something might have been carried away." He was a very pleasant man, and talked a good deal to us.
I knew that Rectus rather envied my going to college, for he had said as much on the trip home; and I knew that he had hoped his father would let him make a fresh start with the professor at our old school. "Sammy," cried out Mrs. Colbert, "Sammy, my son, do you want to go to school, and finish up your education, or go into your father's office, and learn to be a merchant?"
When we reached the place where we had left our apparatus, I swung the rope over the wall, and, hooking the grapnel firmly on the inside, prepared to go down, for, as before, I wished to be under Rectus, if he should slip. But Maiden's Heart put his hand on my shoulder. "Hold up!" he said. "I got 'nother bean. Buy this." "Don't want it," said I. "Yes.
Before she quite reached the surface, I caught her, and had her head out of water in an instant. Rectus then took hold, and with a mighty jerk, we pulled her into the boat. Corny sat down hard and opened her mouth. "There!" she said; "I didn't breathe an inch!" And then she puffed for about two minutes, while the water ran off her into the bottom of the boat. I seized the oars to row to shore.
I lay and listened for a moment, and felt glad that the deck was steady enough for them to walk on. There soon seemed to be a good deal more running, and as they began to drag things about, I thought that it would be a good idea to get up and find out what was going on. If it was anything extraordinary, I wanted to see it. Of course, I woke up Rectus, and we put on our clothes.
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