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If Captain Tolley could not find among his sailors those who would undertake the job, he, Master Joseph, would come down any night with three stout men, overpower the keepers, and carry off Mistress Dulcibel, with the requisite amount of violence to keep her promise unbroken. Master Raymond wrote a note in return. He was much obliged for the information.
"If we wreck her here," McCoy added, "we'd have to make the run to Barclay de Tolley in the boats just the same." The captain gave his orders, and once more the Pyrenees swung off for another run across the inhospitable sea. And the middle of the next afternoon saw despair and mutiny on her smoking deck.
"There's only a canoe passage. But now that we know where we are, we can run for Barclay de Tolley. It is only one hundred and twenty miles from here, due nor'-nor'west. With this breeze we can be there by nine o'clock tomorrow morning." Captain Davenport consulted the chart and debated with himself.
Tolley sat at the head of the table a big, joyous, vigorous widow, who had managed the Company House at Kirkwood ever since its erection two years before, and who had been an employee of the Light and Power Company, in one capacity or another, for some five years before that or ever since, as she put it, "the juice got pore George." Mrs.
He hesitated in the dim upper hallway, wondering if Patricia, who had left the men to beer and crackers half an hour earlier, had retired, or was, by happy chance, still gossiping with Mrs. Tolley or Min. While he loitered in the hall, the door of her room swung slowly open. Paul had often been in this room, which was merely a kind of adjunct to the sleeping-porch beyond.
How were the guinea-pigs, the ducks, the vegetables, the caged fox, the "boys" generally, Roosy's ear, Consuelo Vorse's lame foot? Did Mrs. Tolley know that she had made a deep impression on the old fellow who drove the stage? "Oh, look at her blush, Min! Well, really!"
The idea never occurred to us; not for years five, to be exact." The secretary, at a sign from Miss Tolley, made a memorandum of it. "And then did your feelings towards him change suddenly?" questioned Miss Tolley. "No," explained the Human Document, in the same quick, even tones; "so far as I was concerned, I was not conscious of any alteration in my own attitude.
The Storm King can show her heels to any vessel that goes out of this port or out of London either, for that matter." "What is she engaged in?" Here the captain gave a low whistle, and followed it up with a wink. "Buccaneers occasionally, I suppose?" "Oh, Captain Tolley is not so very condemned particular what he does so that of course it is entirely lawful," and the captain winked again.
"This is too informal, there are certain preliminaries that are necessary in such cases." "Advisable but I am told not absolutely necessary," replied Master Raymond. "Wait then for an hour or two; and we shall be on the high seas and out of any jurisdiction," added Captain Tolley. "Who is this maiden? Who gives her away?" asked the minister.
Tolley called "halmy," with that good lady, without somehow attracting the boys to the table, where they hung, championing and criticising. Paul was more amused than surprised to find Mrs. Peavy having tea with the other ladies on the porch less than a week later. The little mother looked scared and shamed; but Mrs.
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