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Updated: June 27, 2025
We two, you and I, have got ourselves into an awful scrape, and there's only one thing for us. Can't you guess what that is? Rouse up! Can't you guess? he repeated impatiently. 'Me guess? No! I can't make Miss Theedory get well; and what else matters? Ned lifted a tear-stained face to say brokenly. 'You've often said you'd be game to run away to sea, if I made up my mind to do it, haven't you?
Theo still pulls Queenie and Queenie's ever-increasing doll-family about the bay, but in a new 'Theodora. But the tall, sweet-faced sister, of whom the Carnegy boys are so proud, seldom rows across to the Vicarage nowadays. Some folk wonder why. Others, who are wiser, smile and say that perhaps 'Miss Theedory' will go across some day and land for life at the Vicarage.
'We thought of going pretty early, said Ned slowly, after a pause of hesitation. 'We wants to make a good long day of it. But but, Muster Alick, have ye told them up at the Bunk that ye're set on going with us? I thought as ye said the tootor wouldn't 'low ye, and that Miss Theedory backed him up. Didn't ye? Ned eyed his companion with a certain amount of stern suspicion as he put the questions.
Well, then, ye can't get it, that's all! Binks faced round upon the boys, who were trying to push past him and jump into the boat. 'Miss Theedory, she says, says she, "Binks, I looks to you to see arter that boat for me!" and with that she stepped up to the house, she and little missy, to see the mistress.
All Northbourne, as with one heart, sorrowed aloud for their favourite Miss Theedory; her grave condition was the sole theme of talk in the cottages round the bay. 'Happen she was too good to live! croaked Jerry Blunt's mother, with an appropriate melancholy in her voice; and the gossips nodded approvingly at a sentiment which fitted in with their own views of life.
There are some of us who, loyal ever to the love rooted deep in our hearts, thus keep green the memory of those 'faces we have loved long since, and lost awhile! 'She's rare and sweet, is Miss Theedory, murmured the weather-beaten old man, when the sisters had disappeared, and he turned to fasten the boat to the pier-head.
It was Sunday afternoon, and, dressed in his best, the fisher-boy stood up straight in class to repeat his hymn to his earnest-eyed, sweet-faced teacher, 'Miss Theedory. And the words he fought sleepily to remember must have been born of his nearness to the growling monsters within the caravan 'Christian, dost thou see them On the holy ground, How the troops of Midian Prowl and prowl around?
He forgot in the entrancing dream the outbreak at the Bunk; forgot the holiday to be stolen on the morrow in Brattlesby Woods, and the deception practised on Miss Theedory; forgot, for the first time, the 'bit o' a prayer' taught him by faithful old Goody to say when his nights were passed on the deep. Tuesday morning had come and gone.
But I put off the doin' of it to go to Brattlesby Woods along with you, Muster Alick, and Jerry Blunt, an' I deceived her; an' now she's drowned, Miss Theedory is! Leastways, 'tis the same thing; for all Northbourne's a-sayin' as she's bound to die of it all! The boy, burying his head, broke down into a loud, irrepressible fit of crying. Ned too! Alick's lips quivered as he turned abruptly away.
It was a relief to hear even that much of his companion; it was better than the mystery of silence. But Ned's panic was pretty severe when he thought of Alick's perilous and deserted condition. A rush of mingled feelings came over the Northbourne lad. He felt as the prodigal son must have felt in the far country. Yes, it was exactly like the Bible story which 'Miss Theedory' seemed to like best.
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