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"Now, then," said Mother Rodesia, when she had laid the two children back again upon the straw, "when they awake, and if Ben is not there, we must dye their faces with walnut juice; but we can't begin that now, for they are sure to howl a good bit, and if folks are near, they will hear them and come to the rescue. Jack, have you got that spade 'andy?"
Only, course," she added, in a meditative voice, "I's twuly, twuly sossy for Uncle William and Iris and Apollo." It may seem almost impossible to believe that two little children could be kidnaped in the England of to-day. Nevertheless, such was the case. Mother Rodesia had managed her theft with great skill.
As soon as ever the children saw the little strangers, they scrambled to their feet with a cry, and instantly surrounded Mother Rodesia and Orion and Diana. "Back, all of you, you little rascallions," said Mother Rodesia; "back, or I'll cuff you. Where's Mother Bridget? I want to speak to her?"
There's a fortune in that little gal, and whenever you are tired of her, why, there's a rich father to fall back on. I spect he would give a sight of money to have her back again. Very well, we'll agree; only, if ever you do get a fortune out of that child, Ben Holt, you might remember poor Rodesia Lee." The man laughed and patted Mother Rodesia on her shoulder.
She was quite shrewd enough to guess that Mother Rodesia was a bad sort of woman, and that she, Diana, had done wrong ever to trust herself to her. Uncle Ben, too, in spite of her brave words, terrified her more or less.
This man, Ben is his name you told me last night that you were fond of uncles you can call 'im Uncle Ben; he's very kind and very, very fond of children." "Oh, yes! I'm very fond of children," said the man. He spoke in a gruff voice which seemed to come right from the bottom of his chest. "And as you don't like aunts," continued Mother Rodesia, "I have brought an uncle.
Until he had been kidnaped by Mother Rodesia he had never known that he was really timid, but now this side of his nature had come to the fore. Day by day he grew more and more frightened, and for the last fortnight he really lost his appetite, and his health began to fail. He refused to eat the coarse and insufficient food, and when he slept his sleep was broken by bad dreams.
At that moment the door was flung open, and Mother Rodesia, accompanied by a tall, dark man, with a scowling face, came in. "Mornin', little dears," said Mother Rodesia. "Now I have got something to say to you." "P'ease, where's Wectory?" asked Diana. "You are not going there just for the present, my dear.
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