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"Well, they say he's to work up in Boston." "I know. But no one can tell where he works. Captain Whittaker, this is Mr. Atkins's doing you know it. Now, WHY does he, a busy man, take such an interest in getting this child away from you?" Captain Cy shook his head and smiled. "Teacher," he said, "you're dead set on taggin' Heman with a mystery, ain't you?"
"Yes, you oughta saw it," chimed in another. "Cert'n'y was no little-small flame. I could see Sally movin' araoun' in the flare. Had that tramp-boy taggin' abaout with her. I declare, if he di'n' look like a gipsy!" The neighbourly throng was at this moment augmented by the appearance of two ladies who fluttered out on the porch of a rose-trellised cottage, like small, proud pouter pigeons.
"W'y, kid, you talk's if you never bin in the p'fession. How ole does Miss Le Fay look? Nineteen, tha's all. But with a great big boy like you taggin' on W'y, say, you'd queer her with them English managers right off. You don' wanna do that now, Freddy?" "No, but I " "I knew you'd take it sensible. You always bin a lot of help to Florette." "Did she tell you, Bert?" "Sure!" "A' right. I'll stay.
If he combs the head of a little nigger brat out thar in Africy though no doubt he needs it why the missionary magazines an' papers are full of it. If he pulls the tooth of an old Injun chief who has a dozen wives taggin' around after 'im, the people hold up thar hands in wonder, an' call 'im a hero.
I wrote you I had selected a good traveling companion. I have, haven't I?" "He would have it so, Mr. Campbell," put in Hephzy. "I said no and kept on sayin' it, but he vowed and declared he wouldn't go unless I did. I know you must think it's queer my taggin' along, but it isn't any queerer to you than it is to me." Jim behaved very well, considering. He did not laugh.
"Eased sheets here in this puddle, in a breeze about stiff enough to winnow oats! Supposin' it was a blow, with a gallopin' sea! Me runnin' around this deck taggin' gool on halyards, lifts, sheets, and downhauls, and them hoss-marines follerin' me up. Davy Jones would die laughin', unless some one pounded him on the back to help him get his breath."
This same girl hung around the cliff till she found a secret place where two people put their letters. She comes in here and tells me I've no business taggin' her. What business had she robbin' folks of letters, stealin' 'em out, and givin' 'em into wicked hands? Lettie, you know whose letter you took when you could reach far enough to git it out, and you know where you put it.
"Look here, Monody," sez I, interruptin', "this ain't no news. What are you gettin' at?" "You got friends there, ain't ya?" sez he. "I got one friend anyhow," sez I, "but as long as you've insisted on taggin' along after me, you'll see the place an' you'll see my friend; though I somehow doubt if you'll be invited in for a meal." "Is your friend a lady?" sez Monody.
He was going to make a few inquiries on his own hook, he told the two men. "No news is good news, Mrs. Donovan," Mr. Jerry insisted. "Mary Rose is all right. No one could harm her." "I wish I could believe that." Mrs. Donovan had lost control of herself and was sobbing bitterly. "Here it is after ten o'clock an' we don't know where the little thing is. Seems if bad luck was taggin' her.
"If the gentleman has fallen so low, suh, that he proposes to go about with a constable taggin' after his heels, you can tell him, suh, that he is safe even from my boot." Then he shut the door of the private office in undisguised disgust, leaving Fitz and me on the outside. "What are we going to do, Major?" said Fitz, now really anxious.
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