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"You may make as much fun as you please," said Rectus, "but I'm going to write it out now." And so he did, in big letters, on half a sheet of foolscap. We started out on our storming expedition on a Tuesday night, about nine o'clock; we had a latch-key, so we could come home when we pleased. Rectus carried the rope, and I had the grapnel, wrapped in its cotton wool.
We didn't settle this question, nor the more important one of our reason for this visit; for, at this moment, Maiden's Heart came back, carrying the lamp. He looked at us in a curious way, and then he said: "What you want?" I couldn't think of any good answer to this question, but Rectus whispered to me: "Got any money with you?" "Yes," said I. "Let's buy some sea-beans," said Rectus.
We had been here before, and had seen the head-cook, a ferocious Indian squaw, who had been taken in the act of butchering a poor emigrant woman on the plains. She always seemed sullen and savage, and never said a word to anybody. We hoped she wasn't in here now. "I didn't know they had Indian sentinels," said Rectus. "That seems a little curious to me.
"Two such good young men as you and Rectus travelling together ought to have a beneficial influence upon whole communities," said Harry Alden; and Scott remarked that if there should be a bad storm at sea, he would advise us two to throw everybody else overboard to the whales, for the other people would be sure to be the wicked ones.
"The governor of the colony is at the head of the army, police and all, isn't he?" said Rectus. "Yes," I answered. "And I know where he lives," put in Corny. "Let's go and see him, sometime, and ask him about it." This was thought to be a good idea, and we agreed to consider it at our next meeting.
Mathews. I don't know exactly what he said about it, but I knew he thought I had been studying too hard, and needed to "let up" for a while. And I'm sure, too, that he was quite positive that I would have no let up as long as I staid in the same town with the professor. Nearly a year before this time, Rectus had left the academy.
They grew almost out of the solid rock. This is probably one of the most economical places in the world for garden mould. You couldn't sweep up more than a bucketful out of a whole garden, and yet the things grow splendidly. Rectus said he supposed the air was earthy.
He had evidently read about young English fellows travelling on the continent with their tutors, and I suppose he wanted me to be his son's tutor, or something like it. When father told me what Mr. Colbert had proposed, I agreed instantly. I liked Rectus, and the salary would help immensely. I wrote to New York that very night, accepting the proposition.
Nobody need say anything against this. I've settled it, and I can't be moved." As he couldn't be moved, no one tried to move him. "I tell you what it is," said Rectus privately to me. "If Uncle Chipperton is going to give a dinner, according to his own ideas of things in general, it will be a curious kind of a meal." It often happened that Rectus was as nearly right as most people.
If you know their business better than they do, why, just let it stand that way. It wont hurt you." I was pretty mad, I must say, for I didn't want to see a fellow like Rectus trying to run the ship. But you couldn't stay mad with Rectus long. He didn't mean any wrong, and he gave no words back, and so, as you might expect, we were all right again by breakfast-time.
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