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Just then there came up on the east wind a big flock of telltales, 762 of them, whirling over the hills without a sound till they saw him. Then they began to yelp." "Look here, Jotham," I am always careful to say at this point, "How could he tell that there were just 762 of them? He couldn't count so many as they flew." "Didn't have to count 'em as they flew," answers Jotham.
It was he who added the words, as though he had read them in my own mind; and there was a slight, sarcastic rising inflection of the voice at the end of the sentence, as if he put it to me as a question. Of course, I vouchsafed him no answer, unless he found it in my eyes, which have ever been telltales.
His arm, by the way, has healed nicely, though the scar will remain all his life. Thomas Mugridge lives in mortal fear of him, and is afraid to venture on deck after dark. There are two or three standing quarrels in the forecastle. Louis tells me that the gossip of the sailors finds its way aft, and that two of the telltales have been badly beaten by their mates.
I'll take myself off. But my memory is good," he added, glancing at Old Klaws with a snarl that showed all his sharp, white teeth. "Well, now for the story," said the little boy, when Old Boze was out of sight around the corner. "Long, long ago," began Old Klaws, "when all the animal kindreds could talk the man-talk, the dogs were the greatest telltales in the world.
The young man had been backing slowly toward the steps and she had followed without taking note. Now he said "Let me help you down." "I am not lame, M'sieu, neither am I blind." "Will you take me to see Marie Gaudrion?" "You would laugh at her, I see it in your eyes." "Are my eyes such telltales?" He had not the placid fairness of his sister, and his chestnut hair curled about his temples.
And then slow tears would trickle down her cheeks, very slow, one by one, till they would fall as telltales on her mother's hand. 'Katie, my darling Katie, the mother would say. 'I'm only tired, mamma, would be her answer. 'Don't move, mamma; pray don't move. I am so comfortable. And then at night she would put herself to rest close circled in Linda's arms.
"Too often, too often, my good fellow. Do you think that your nose and eyelids are not real telltales?" "But I assure you, sir " "Do you not remember I told you that you had asthmatic symptoms? Why, the movement of your pectoral muscles shows that your lungs are affected." "But I have been running, sir." Mascarin broke in upon this conversation, which he considered frivolous.
In not a single instance have they furnished proof, and we do not encourage mere telltales. I don't want you to tell me whom you suspect, but when you can lay before me a positive accusation, backed by facts that can be proven, I'll take up the case and see that the lawbreaker is vigorously prosecuted."
"If it wasn't that Miss Tewksbury told me ladies never were telltales, I could soon make trouble between you and your blessed mother." "No, you couldn't," said Nancy curtly, "for I'd reform sooner than let you do that! Perhaps I did say too much, Julia, only I can't bear to have you make game of Mr. Popham when he's so funny and nice. Think of his living with nagging Mrs.
"I touched him and I mean to get him in the morning." True to this resolve, he was there again at dawn, but examined the place in vain for a sign of blood. The red rarely shows up much on leaves, grass, or dust; but there are two kinds of places that the hunter can rely on as telltales stones and logs.
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