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"But, Tony, you said the note was five hundred dollars didn't you?" asked Frank. "I did." "And you have only four hundred?" "That's all;" and Tony's eyes rekindled with delight at the anticipation of what the Zephyrs would do. "You hear that, fellows." "Would a motion be in order now?" asked Charles Hardy. "Hold your tongue, you fool!" said Tim Bunker, in a low tone.
For Tony had a little trick of concealing a dollar-and-a-quarter sirloin by the simple method of slapping the platter close to the underside of his tray and holding it there with long, lean fingers outspread, the entire bit of knavery being concealed in the folds of a flowing white napkin in the hand that balanced the tray. Into Tony's eyes there came a baleful gleam.
Most of them were with the drive, but a few had been told off to look after the two lads. "Where's that boy?" asked Tony as the terrible scene flashed back into his mind. "Over there," replied one, jerking his thumb to the left. "Is he all right?" was Tony's next query. "Can't say. He's not come to yet."
Once more Martha called his name. At the sound of her voice all the wonder, all the worriment, fled from Tony's heart. "Coming, Mother, coming," he called happily, and the smile upon Martha's face was reflected on his own. Christmas morning dawned bright and clear; the storm had passed in the night. Something else had passed, too the soul of an aged farmer.
"'Tain't that," Taylor exclaimed. "It's that chap who came here years ago has been around, or the yarn has, and Tony's heard it, and wants now then, here, hold up!" he broke off, as Mrs. Taylor, taken terribly aback, looked from one to the other with startled eyes.
Rebellious, Isabelle fondled the loving nose of the hound with a small, brown, jewelled hand, and glanced dubiously at Tony's uncompromising back. "Trot back, Nina love," said she to her daughter, cheerfully, "and ask Miss Harriet to come out and pour. I'll be there directly. We'll come right up. Run along!" To Nina, in this ignominious dismissal, there was sweet.
He had been unable to ship another boy in Tony's place, and when he let it be known among the dock laborers and loungers about Luiz Wharf that there was a berth open in the Seamew's forecastle, nobody applied for it. "What is the matter with those fellows?" the skipper asked Mason Chapin. "They were tumbling over each other a few weeks ago to join us, and now there isn't an offer."
He shook hands all around and with the grace of a prince accepted two of Tony's cigarettes. His parting speech showed him a fatalist. 'What will be, will be. There is a girl he waved his hand vaguely in the direction of the village. 'If I go to America then I cannot stay behind and marry Maria. So perhaps it is planned for the best.
Anger and resentment at having been fooled swiftly succeeded her bewilderment, and her blue eyes flashed her indignation. "So you have only been making mock of me, playing a part as usual, to flatter your own vanity!" she exclaimed. "I am sorry now that Tony's aim was not truer, and that I prevented him from firing a second time."
"Joshua Churchill's dying in California and Nanny Ainslee's leaving to-night for Japan! And there's been a wreck between here and Spring Road!" Fanny fairly gasped out the astounding news. Then she sank down into Grandma Wentworth's comfortable kitchen rocker and went into details. "The two telegrams just came through. Uncle Tony's gone down to the wreck.
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