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"And then I never saw Pat act the way he's acting now." Holman Sommers regarded the dog with the same keen, studying look he had given Helen May. Pat did not take it as calmly, however, as Helen May had done. Pat lifted his upper lip again and snarled with an extremely concrete depiction of the primitive emotion, hate. "There are such things as rabid coyotes, aren't there?
I don't know now, but I'll let you know, if you care to have me." "Of course I shall care to know!" Miss Hitchcock's voice trembled, and then steadied itself, as she added, "And I am glad you are thinking of it." With a sense of relief Sommers found himself alone, and free to return to the temple, to Alves, for the last time.
Suddenly, as he neared the end of the pier, the big form of a man, bearing, dragging a burden, loomed up out of the dark expanse. It came nearer, and Sommers could make out the uniform of a park-guard. He was half-carrying, half-dragging the limp form of a woman. Sommers tried to hail him, but he could not cry. At last the guard called out when he was within a few feet: "Give me a hand, will you.
Preston and Dr. ?" Mrs. Preston tremblingly poured out some coffee and handed it to him. The act enraged the doctor. It seemed symbolical. Preston threw the cup to the floor. "None of your rot," he shouted. "I bet you have had something more than coffee, you " he glared at his wife, his limbs trembling and twitching as the nervous irritation gained on him. Sommers sprang forward.
As I watched them, they seemed suddenly to take it into their heads to roll rapidly onward, and down they bore upon us like a flock of sheep scouring over the downs. "All hands shorten sail," shouted Sommers. "Stafford. Rushforth, aloft lads, and furl the fore-topgallantsail." Up we sprang into the rigging.
Behind this party stood Giovanni Joungevello, an Italian minstrel, much in favour with Anne Boleyn, and Domingo Lamellino, or Lamelyn as he was familiarly termed a Lombard, who pretended to some knowledge of chirurgery, astrology, and alchemy, and who was a constant attendant on Henry. At the head of the bench, on the right of the table, sat Will Sommers.
Young Hitchcock had returned recently to the family lumber yards on the West Side and the family residence on Michigan Avenue, with about equal disgust, so Sommers judged, for both milieux. Even more than his sister, Parker was conscious of the difference between the old state of things and the new.
Vic, to be sure, would have quarreled with her if necessary, to get a ride on the pinto, and he was a good deal astonished at Helen May's sweet consideration of a boy's hunger for a horse. But she tempered his joy a bit by urging him to keep an eye on Pat, who had been acting very queer. "He kept ruining up his back and showing his teeth at Mr. Sommers," she explained nervously.
"I say two slaves are wanted," growled the midshipman, with a look so fierce that the jailer promptly ordered the removal of Laronde's fetters. "Did I not often tell you," muttered Hugh Sommers, "that your unguarded tongue would bring you to grief?" "It matters not. I submit, and am ready," returned the Frenchman in a sad tone.
She felt better after that, and she rather enjoyed the plump sister of Holman Sommers. The plump sister called him Holly, and seemed to be inordinately proud of his learning and inordinately fond of nagging at him over little things. She was what Helen May called a vegetable type of woman. She did not seem to have any great emotions in her make-up.
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