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I did not know you were in the regiment, Carruthers," the boys said warmly, pleased to find a face they had known before; and then breaking off: "I beg your pardon Mr. Carruthers." "There are no misters here as far as I am concerned, Scudamore. There were no misters at Eton. This is a change, isn't it? Better than grinding away at Greek by a long way. Well, I congratulate you on your fight.
But if he has a long hill to surmount, with none to restrain his ardour, the sense of duty grows stronger than any consideration of his own good, and the best man has not the conscience needful to understand half his emotions. Thus the sense of duty kept Blyth Scudamore full of misery.
"They can't have killed Captain Scudamore, and, if they had, why should they have carried his body away?" This was the question Tom had been asking himself. Assassinations were, in Madrid, every-day occurrences, and that Peter and he were especially liable to be murdered, owing to the hatred of Nunez and his gang, was clear; but, so far as he could see, not a drop of blood had been shed here.
But although a slight groan escaped as they lifted him to the saddle, he gathered up the reins at once, and sat erect while they shortened the stirrup-leathers. Lady seemed to know what was required of her, and stood as still as a vaulting horse until Richard took the bridle to lead her away. 'I see! said Scudamore; 'you can't trust me with your horse! 'Not so, sir, answered Mr. Heywood.
Trust me, she but bides her time to let me know it and you too, my Rowland. 'I am sure you mistake her, Amanda, said Scudamore. 'Her looks are but modest, and her words but shy, for she came hither from a lonely house. I believe she is honest and good. 'Seest thou not then how that she makes friends with none but her betters?
"Yes, we know that, aunt, 'spoils the child," broke in Tom, "but we would not mind so much if the fellow were a gentleman." "I don't know what you may call a gentleman," Miss Scudamore said severely. "He stands very high here a schoolmaster, while he visits the vicar, and is well looked up to everywhere." "He's not a gentleman for all that," Tom muttered; "he wouldn't be if he visited the Queen.
But as soon as Richard had got Scudamore clear of the threshold, to which he lent not a helping finger, he stepped quietly out again, closed the wicket behind him, and taking Lady by the bridle, led her back over the bridge towards the bowling-green. Scudamore had just time to whisper to Heywood, 'It is my master, the earl himself, when the voice came again. 'What! wounded, Rowland? How is this?
The negroes instantly seized Kennedy, stripped his coat from his shoulders and, as soon as they had convinced themselves that Scudamore's words were true, they flung him down and one, raising his copper axe, set his foot upon his victim's neck. "Don't hurt a hair of his head!" shouted Scudamore, feigning fury. The next instant the axe fell, and Kennedy's head was hurled over the cliff.
Upon my arrival at Lisbon I reported the gallant conduct of Tom and Peter Scudamore in rescuing one of their comrades when washed overboard in the Bay of Biscay. Captain Merivale, of the "Latona," also reported it, and General Hill, when he heard the circumstances, was also good enough to send home a report recommending them for promotion.
'Scudamore! said Richard to himself. It might be no light only a flash in his brain. But that even was precious in the utter darkness. 'Sir, he said, turning to his father, 'I would I had a plan of Raglan stables. 'What wouldst thou an' thou hadst, my son? asked Mr. Heywood. 'Nay, sir, that wants thinking. But I believe my poor mare is at this moment in one of those vaults they tell us of.
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