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Tracey came on deck, dressed in a flowing gown of white muslin, and accompanied by Toea and Paní. "Here we are, Mr. Barradas," she said with a smile; "where is big Joe? I must tell him what to do. And where is Mosé; and where is the bridegroom himself? ah! there he is, and quite nicely dressed, too. Tell Mr. Barry we are quite ready, please.
I did no such thing!" Flora Miles cried hysterically. "I came running in with with the rest of you, and I rushed over there just to see if I could see anybody running away across the meadow " "My wife is right, sir," Tracey Miles added his word aggressively. "I saw what she was doing the most sensible of all of us and I ran to join her.
Day after day the work of gathering its hidden wealth from the bottom of the lagoon went on. Once at least in every week Barry managed to communicate with Mrs. Tracey, personally or by letter, telling her how matters were progressing, and asking her to be patient. "In a week or two," he wrote, "we shall have possession of the brig without bloodshed, I hope.
"You were the second arrival, then?" "Yes. I parked my car along the curb in front of the house," Tracey answered readily. "And I came right on in, and Nita jumped up " "Yes. We've had all that twice before," Dundee interrupted cruelly. "Now, Judge Marshall " "One of my friends gave me a lift from town," Judge Marshall volunteered pompously. "Chap named Sampson.
Barry for the moment made no answer, for suddenly he found himself looking into the pale face of a tall, slenderly built woman seated beside a man he knew old, white-mustached and of a generally military cut. He dropped his eyes at once and turned his head quickly away, but not so quickly that Mrs. Tracey saw his forehead mantle momentarily.
The mate swept her up in his arms as if she were a baby and carried her below. "Poor little woman," he said pityingly to himself, as he laid her down in her own berth; and then he added aloud, "You are overwrought and done up, Mrs. Tracey. Rest awhile, and you will soon feel better." "Yes," she answered, trying hard to control herself from giving way altogether; "I shall be all right presently."
All the girls freely prophesied that even Tracey, flattered by her passion for him as he so evidently was, would get tired of it, but he didn't, and there were three marriages in 'the crowd' that June." "Three?" Dundee repeated absently, for his interest was waning. "Yes.... Lois Morrow and Peter Dunlap; Johnny Drake and Carolyn Swann; and Tracey and Flora," Penny answered.
Not that I meant any harm, but I was being a little silly about her and she was about me, too! Not that I'd leave my wife and babies for any Broadway beauty under the sun " "Oh, Tracey! And you weren't going to tell me " Was there real jealousy now, or just pretense on Flora's part? "You understand, don't you, Dundee?" Tracey demanded, man to man.
But Tracey had already gone, and such was his haste to spread the news that he forgot to take the horse and surrey back to the stable, but left it standing in front of the hotel till eight o'clock; for which oversight, I am credibly informed, his father justly dealt with him before sending him to bed.
"I certainly wrote to him once or twice to acknowledge his delicacy and his generosity." "Have you the dates of those letters?" "No." "Have you ever met him?" "Yes, once or twice, when he came into Coombe Tracey. He was a very retiring man, and he preferred to do good by stealth."
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