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Singleton's office," and he conducted us along a corridor and into a large, barely-furnished room, where we found a sedate-looking gentleman seated at a large writing table. "How-d'ye-do, doctor?" said the latter, rising and holding out his hand. "I can guess what you've come for. Want to see that thumb-print, eh?"
Singleton's white head flitted here and there in the night, high above the deck, like the ghost of a bird. "Going off, sir!" shouted Mr. Creighton from aft. "Full again." "All right... " "Ease off the head sheets. That will do the braces. Coil the ropes up," grunted Mr. Baker, bustling about.
"Oh!" she sobbed. "It was Singleton's fault. He won't do it any more." There was no answer; a brooding silence came from beyond the door. Then Lawler said gently: "Ruth, I'm asking you again: Will you marry me?" "I'll never marry you, now, Kane never, never, never!" The sobs had ceased now; but the voice was choked with emotion. "All right, Ruth," said Lawler; "I'll ask you again, sometime.
I know not how many got to their feet at that, for the story of the cowardly beating of Mr. Otis by Robinson and the army officers had swept over the colonies, burning like a flame all true-hearted men, Tory and Whig alike. I wrested my sword from Singleton's hold, and in a trice I had reached the captain over chairs and table, tearing myself from Fotheringay on the way.
It was intensely amusing to Jack, and scarcely less so to Carlos, to observe the sympathetic courtesy with which the English Consul listened to all this rigmarole, which, from his manner, one might have believed to have been absolutely convincing until he remarked, in turn: "Well, my dear General, after all has been said, one fact remains; which is, that Senor Singleton's life has been attempted by a man whom he never saw before, and who could therefore have had no personal animus against him.
If Paul be Singleton's mate, coming from his captain, it will do as well as if it were Singleton himself. Sally, a little devil, often reproaches me with the slowness of my proceedings. But in a play does not the principal entertainment lie in the first four acts? Is not all in a manner over when you come to the fifth?
It veered quickly, changed to a black south-easter, and blew itself out, giving the ship a famous shove to the northward into the joyous sunshine of the trade. Rapid and white she ran homewards in a straight path, under a blue sky and upon the plain of a blue sea. She carried Singleton's completed wisdom, Donkin's delicate susceptibilities, and the conceited folly of us all.
Rose glanced after her. Then she ran up to Maggie Oliphant, who was preparing to leave the little theater. "Don't you want to see the auction?" she said in a gay voice. "It's going to be the best fun we have had for many a long day." Maggie turned and looked at her. "The auction? What auction do you mean?" she asked. "Why, Polly Singleton's, of course. You've not heard of it?
George Singleton's orderly, who brought up the tidings, says that our horses were holding consultation if they should not go down without their riders, and eat another meal, for it is questionable with them whether they can get a full stomach again. If they are suffered to get back with their plunder, we shall not be able to find a piece of pork at Christmas fat enough to fry itself."
Aware that this was a matter which would not permit of even suggestion on his part, Singleton soon found an excuse to take leave of Warden. And for an hour after Singleton's departure, Warden stood at the window fighting for his composure. Then, when he had succeeded, he walked out of the front door of the saloon and made his way down the street to the Willets Hotel.
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