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"He refused to come willingly, of course; so I brought him anyhow. Never yet was there a fiddler willing to be accommodating." "Good for you, Tim!" shouted a dozen voices. And Stubby added in his earnest way; "Dan'l was never more needed in his life." Tobey was busy unwinding a long lariat that bent the captive nearly double and secured him firmly to the panting horse.
Tobey seemed to be somewhat at a loss to know precisely what was the net result of the proceedings in which he had thus far taken so small a part, but upon being directed by Mrs. Tobey to produce the hundred dollars, he ventured a feeble remonstrance. This was immediately checked by Mrs.
The procession was half way up the hall on its return when Patsy said abruptly: "Now, Beth!" and darted away from her partner's side and toward the table. Beth followed like a streak, being an excellent runner, and for a moment Knuckles and Tobey, thus deserted by their partners, stopped to watch them in amazement. Then their comrades bumped into them and recalled them to their senses.
"I'd not trust his oath on a stack o' Bibles, once he set eyes on me," exclaimed Joe. "As soon put my fist to my own death warrant as go aboard with him." "That may be," said Peter Tobey, "but you will have friends. You can't expect us to refuse to sail on account o' you." "Leave me here, then," cried the boy. "I'll not call it deserting me. Take your men aboard the snow.
But if you had that two millions, as you just observed, all that would be over." "Two million and a half I thought you said it was," said Mrs. Tobey rather sharply. "Oh, yes, and a half and a half," the lawyer admitted in a tone of indifference, as much as to say that there should be no haggling about the odd $500,000. "What a pretty pile it is, Mrs. Tobey?"
He must be granted safe conduct, on your sacred honor." "His name, Tobey?" "That matters not. Pledge me first. He has no more stomach for piracy and will be set ashore at some port." "A pig in a poke?" cried Rackham, with an ugly smile. "If I refuse, what?" "You will have sulky men that may turn against you some day."
"There ain't going to be no harm come to your boy. It's to keep him from getting into harm that I'm taking him. The village is a mite worked up over this murder and they might get kind of upset if they thought Tobey was still loose. Better go and get him, Mrs. Brenner." As she stood unheeding, he went on, "Now, don't be afraid. Nothing'll happen to him.
Her teeth were chattering now; she laid her hand on his other shoulder. "Try to remember, Tobey. Try to remember. Where'd you get the watch, the pretty watch that was in your box?" He blinked at her. "The pretty bright thing? Where did you get it?" His eyes brightened. His lips trembled into a smile. "I found it some place," he said. Eagerness to please her shone on his face. "But where?
This may have been a sarcasm, for the others laughed in boisterous approval. "In some respects we are still gentlemen," Tobey went on, "but in others we are not to be trusted. Be reasonable, sir I haven't the faintest idea who you are or what your name is and consider calmly our proposition.
His wife shrank back, but even in her shivering terror she noticed, as one notices small details in a time of peril, that his shoes were caked with red mud and that his every step left a wet track on the floor. "He didn't do 'em no harm," she babbled. "They're just wet. Please, Mart, they ain't harmed a mite. Just wet. That's all. Tobey went on the beach with 'em.
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