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Reechy, who had not had half enough at the first place, would not go past this one. I walked down and saw a large well with a good body of water in it, evidently permanently supplied by the drainage of the mass of bare rocks in its vicinity. I was greatly pleased at Tommy's discovery, and after giving Reechy a thorough good drink, off he went like a rocket after the party.
'What is there to cry about? which very nearly made Tommy quarrel with her, for why couldn't she be polite to his friend? However, the clown soon dried his eyes on the tablecloth, and recovered his cheerfulness; and presently he noticed the Times lying folded by Tommy's papa's plate. 'Oh, I say, mister, he said, 'shall I air the newspaper for yer?
Just then he heard a noise behind him and there was Johnny with another team of dogs just like his, hitched to his box-sled, on which they had come, and on it a great pile of things tied, and in his hand a list of what he had food of all kinds in little cans; bread and butter, and even cake, like that he had given away; dried beef; pemmican; coffee and tea, all put up in little cases; cooking utensils; a frying-pan and a coffee-pot and a few other things tin-cups and so forth; knives and everything that he had read that boys had when they went camping, matches and a flint-stone in a box with tinder, in case the matches gave out or got wet; hatchets and saws and tools to make ice-houses or to mend their sleds with, in fact, everything that Tommy's father had ever told him men used when they went into the woods.
Wasn't it funny the dog should go up on the porch, and take Flossie's doll?" "It was better to do that than bite her," said Bert. When Freddie came back from the lumber yard that day he told of Tommy's visit, and Mrs. Bobbsey told of having helped his grandmother. Mrs. Bobbsey also told what Mrs. Todd had said of her missing son, who was shipwrecked.
She put up her hands with a gesture as of trying to put away some monstrous thing that threatened to crush her a gesture that went straight to Tommy's warm heart. "Oh, poor old girl!" he said impulsively, and took the hands into his own. "I say, ought I to be in here? Aren't you supposed to be resting?" She smiled at him wanly. "I believe I am.
"But don't wait all night. We'd best run for it." "Well, good-night," said Julie. "You have both been dears, but whether I'm steady enough to get in safely I don't know. Still, Tommy's a rock. See you again soon. Good-bye-ee!" She leaned forward. "Now, if you're good," she said to Donovan.
In another moment he had sprung from one side of the ship to the other, and, to Tommy's great surprise, had seized him in his arms, and gazing anxiously in his face, began to hug him as if he was about to squeeze all the breath out of his body. Tommy looked up at length in return. "Father!" he exclaimed, hesitatingly, drawing deeply his breath; "is it you, is it you indeed?"
For a moment he felt a fear of it something like Tommy's. How was he to cross the awful gulf? It was not like a free jump; he was hemmed in before and behind, and overhead also. But the baby drew him over the well, as the name of Beatrice drew Dante through the fire. The baby was waiting for him, and it had to be done!
Mr Merton could hardly help smiling at Tommy's conjecture about Sophron's reading; but he felt the greatest pleasure at seeing such a change in his sentiments; and, looking at him with more cordiality than he had done before, he told him that he was very happy to find him so sensible of his faults, and hoped he would be equally ready to amend them. Miss Simmons then continued her narrative.
But a better humor came to me as I thought of Tommy's scheme about the Orchid, and coming upon Echochee at the landing I asked lightly for her benefit, yet quite seriously for myself: "Is there any magic in your tribe that can bring a troubled princess sleep and pleasant dreams?"
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