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"Just let him try," said his sister sweetly. The swamper grinned but made no move to stir from his chair. Jeems had become as much a part of Pirate's Haven as the Luck, which Val could see from his cot glimmering dully in its niche in the Long Hall. The swamper's confinement in the sick-room had paled his heavy tan and he had lost the sullen frown which had made him appear so old and bitter.
"As it is necessary for me to have a word with him, we will. This waste of time is the product of Pitts' stupidity. I shall remember that. It is entirely needless to use force except as a last resource. Now that this swamper's suspicions are aroused, we may have trouble." "Yeah? Well, we can handle that. But how do yuh know that this guy has the stuff?"
A landscape of flat wastes, of thinned and burned and uprooted trees. A desolate and apparently useless land. Here and there a sawmill stood gray and sagging, surrounded by little cabins of unpainted wood, to testify to the time when great pines stood all about, and the ring of the swamper's axe was heard in the intervals of silence between the howls of a saw. To the north the swells grew larger.
"Remember, child, remember That you love, with all your might, The God who watches o'er us And gives us each delight, Who guards us ever in the day, And saves as in the night." Tears filled the swamper's eyes. He moved as if to leave the place. But again he paused, with one foot half lowered to the ground.
Val edged forward and for the first time peered around the corner of the cabin. The two assailants were still only voices, but he could see Jeems. The swamper's face was bruised and there was a smear of dried blood across one cheek as if he had already been roughly handled. But he stood at ease, facing the cabin.
A landscape of flat wastes, of thinned and burned and uprooted trees. A desolate and apparently useless land. Here and there a sawmill stood gray and sagging, surrounded by little cabins of unpainted wood, to testify to the time when great pines stood all about, and the ring of the swamper's axe was heard in the intervals of silence between the howls of a saw. To the north the swells grew larger.
"Didn't you guess when you heard the story of the missing Ralestone? The family went into town to tell you all about it; that's why we were alone when the invaders arrived." "Mr. Ralestone my missing author! No, I didn't guess. I was too interested in the story but I should have! How stupid!" He looked down at the book he still held and then put it into the swamper's hand.
Would Jeems surrender as easily as that? "Just an explanation of how you get into the house unseen." "Yo'll nevah know!" The swamper's reply came swift and clear. "No? Well, I'd think twice before I held to that answer if I were you," purred the other softly. "A word to the Ralestones about those nightly walks of yours " "Won't give yo' what yo' want," replied Jeems shrewdly. "I see.
Bill tentatively inspected the timbers, tapped the roof with a pick taken from the swamper's hands, heard the true ring of live rock, and backed away. The drill was drawn up to the green face of ore. "About there, I should say," Dick directed, pointing an indicatory finger, and the drill runner nodded.
He was thin, the fine bones of his face tight under the pallid skin, his ribs showing even through the sleazy fabric of the threadbare tunic with its house seal. When he leaned his head back against the grime encrusted wall, raising his face to the light, his hair had the glint of bright chestnut, a gold which was also red. And for his swamper's labor he was almost fastidiously clean.
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