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Updated: May 10, 2025
"Now don't talk unless you have somethin' to say, Happy," sez she. "I don't want Hawkins to imagine 'at we're out ridin' for an appetite. I want him to believe 'at we're on mighty important business." "Oh, he'll sure enough think it," sez I, "when we swing around Mount Savage an' he gets to see home through Starlight's dust."
Only if we'd sold to any one that thought there was a cross look about it, we'd have had to take half money, that's all. They've fetched a rattling price, through Starlight's working the oracle with those swells, and no mistake. 'Yes, but that ain't all of it, says the old man, filling his pipe. 'We've got to look at what comes after. I never liked that imported bull being took.
There was a fine breeze blowing already in the elms and making the tall hollyhocks bow in the garden, and when they reached the wharf and put down the creaking wicker basket on the very edge the tide was still high, and Harry Foster had already hoisted the Starlight's sail with one careful reef in it, and was waiting to row them out two at a time in the tag-boat.
Mother was working away in her chair, and father walking up and down before the door smoking. When we were letting go the horses, father comes up and says 'I've got a bit of news for you, boys; Starlight's been took, and the darkie with him. 'Where? I said. Somehow I felt struck all of a heap by hearing this. I'd got out of the way of thinking they'd drop on him.
There is no knowing how long Captain Forest would have remained a silent spectator of the charming picture she presented, had not her attention been attracted by the sound of Starlight's hoofs as he began to paw the ground impatiently. She raised her head from the bush over which she was bending and turned her gaze in the direction of the gate.
I believe I ought to be jealous of that girl. 'All Starlight's fault, I said; 'but anyhow, it's through him we've had this meeting here. I was dead against coming all the time, and I never expected things to turn out so lucky as they have done. 'Will he be here to-night? Aileen says, very soft and timid like. 'I almost wished I'd stayed away, but Gracey here would come.
Racey went out, being careful to close the door tightly, and went to the room of the Starlight's owner. This room, too, was empty. Racey returned to his own room, tossed his cantenas and saddlebags on the cot, and began feverishly to paw through their contents. Nothing had been subtracted from or added to the heterogeneous collection of articles in the cantenas.
Then I told him about Aileen putting Sir Ferdinand on the wrong lay, and he said what a clever girl she was, and had as much pluck and sense as two or three men. 'A deal more than we've ever showed, Dick, says he, 'and that's not saying much either. He laughed in his quiet way when he heard about Starlight's advertisement in the 'Turon Star', and said it was just like him.
When Starlight's horse came up he was as lame as a tree, couldn't put his foot to the ground; got a kick or a strain, or trod on a glass bottle or something. Anyhow he had only three legs that he could rise a move out of. Starlight looked rather glum. He wasn't his second best or his third best either.
But the saddlebags and cantenas lying on the floor at the head of his cot had certainly been moved. He recalled distinctly having, the previous evening, piled the cantenas on top of the saddlebags. And now the saddlebags were on top of the cantenas. He glanced at Swing's warbags. They had not been moved. He wondered if Jack Harpe and the Starlight's owner were still in their rooms.
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