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The other hunting trip which I have alluded to was undertaken in company with three friendly young half-castes. The other was Jose Frazao, a nephew of Senor Chrysostomo, of Ega, an active, clever, and manly young fellow, whom I much esteemed. He was almost a white his father being a Portuguese and his mother a Mameluca.
He blamed his indisposition to having eaten too many good things when in Vernal a break in training, as it were. This was our excuse for a short run that day. I played nurse and gave him some simple remedy from the little supply that we carried; and, after he was in his sleeping bag, I filled some hot-water bags for the first time on the trip, and soon had him feeling quite comfortable.
Now whether reach or stretch be the most proper term for an effort to sail against the wind, is left to be settled by those reverend monopolizers of all the arts and sciences, the London Reviewers; who, by the way, and we mention it pro bono publico, would very much increase their stock of knowledge and usefulness, if they would depute a few missionaries, for their own reverend body, to pass and repass the Atlantic in a British transport, containing in its black hole an hundred or two of Yankee prisoners of war: We do wish that the London Quarterly Reviewers particularly would take a trip in the Malabar; it would, if they should be so fortunate as to survive the voyage, make them better judges of the character of the English nation, and of the American nation, and of that nearly lost tribe, the Caledonian nation.
Besides that, he was on the ground all the time and I had to be away two-thirds of the time on my runs. "I came in one trip determined to know my fate that very evening had my little piece all committed to memory.
He had been down to Brighton; and I have a profound disbelief in these short hurried trips to the seaside. But Mr. Gladstone seems to like them, and haply they do him good. He looked as if the last trip had rather tired him out. Or was it that he had had to sit for several hours the day before at a Cabinet Council?
"Again, the boys have their sleds; and sliding down hill is splendid fun. But they trip up some grave citizen, who sprains his shoulder. What is the result? Not the provision of a safe, good place, where boys may slide down hill without danger to any one, but an edict forbidding all sliding, under penalty of fine.
"Monsieur Fingret," he asked, "are you acquainted with a man by the name of Pierre Bethune?" And again the notary shook his head. "Or Jasper Martigny?" "I never before heard either name, monsieur," he answered. We sat silent a moment, in despair. Was our trip to Etretat to be of no avail? Where was my premonition, now?
If you ask me, I, for one, would like to make a trip to the moon. It would give me a better chance to test the powers of Cardite, that wonderful red substance we brought from Mars. I can use that in the Etherium motor. If you left it to me, I'd say, 'go to the moon." "Well, perhaps we will," spoke Mr. Henderson thoughtfully. "You'll go, too, won't you, Mark?" asked Jack.
"I must thank you again," Hodder answered, "but I felt as I wrote you that certain matters made it impossible for me to go." "I suppose you had your reasons, but I think you would have enjoyed the trip. I had a good, seaworthy boat I chartered her from Mr. Lieber, the president of the Continental Zinc, you know. I went as far as Labrador. A wonderful coast, Mr. Hodder."
"I'm running the boat trip. So you just climb out and chop firewood, and plenty of it. I'll take care of dad. You, Anson, make a fire on the bank. And you, Bill, set up the Yukon stove in the boat. Old dad ain't as young as the rest of us, and for the rest of this voyage he's going to have a fire on board to sit by."
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