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"Mother," said Mr. Catesby, with great pathos, "don't you know me?" "He has brought bad news of Fred," said Mrs. Truefitt, turning to her daughter; "I am sure he has." "I don't understand you," said Mr. Catesby, with a bewildered glance from one to the other. "I am Fred. Am I much changed?
Miss Truefitt has a bedroom at the back of the house, and Stephanotie sleeps in front. I shall fling gravel at the window. There is not a soul, as you see, in the streets. It's well that it is such a quiet place; it will serve our purpose all the better." They now found themselves outside Miss Truefitt's house.
Truefitt was the widow of a master-lighterman, and that her son, Fred Truefitt, after an absence of seven years in New Zealand, was now on his way home. He finished his glass slowly and, the landlord departing to attend to another customer, made his way into the street again. He walked along slowly, picturing as he went the home-corning of the long-absent son.
Things were oddly ordered in this world, and Fred Truefitt would probably think nothing of his brotherly privileges. He wondered whether he was like Prudence. He wondered "By Jove, I'll do it!" he said, recklessly, as he turned. "Now for a row." He walked back rapidly to Bashford's Lane, and without giving his courage time to cool plied the knocker of No. 5 briskly.
"The mounseers must be in a precious hurry to catch us, if they do catch us," exclaimed Job Truefitt. "Give way, mates: if we can't keep ahead of a crew of frog-eaters, we desarves to be caught and shut up in the darkest prison in the land, without e'er a quid o' baccy to chaw, or a glass o' grog to freshen our nip." The men, however, required no inducement to exert themselves to the utmost.
Ronald would not believe this statement; but the man persisted in it, and seemed obstinately determined to make no other Captain Calder directed Morton to take command of the recaptured "Osterley," and Glover went as his lieutenant, with a couple of midshipmen, Job Truefitt, Bob Doull, and about thirty other hands.
Take that," exclaimed Job Truefitt, as he dealt a blow which nearly severed a pirate's head from his shoulder. The man fell dead, and Job and the rest springing on, the ruffians gave way, and many were driven overboard right across the deck, as a flock of sheep are swept away by a torrent. The old captain defended himself with all the fierceness of despair.
I saw a flicker of light in the room. She is thinking it is thieves; she won't for a single moment imagine that we are here. I do hope Miss Truefitt won't awaken; it will be all up with us if she does." "No, no, it won't," said Nora; "there's not a person in this place I could not get to help me in a cause like this.
Truefitt had got as far as the doorstep in search of assistance, when a sudden terrible thought occurred to her: Fred was dead, and the visitor had hit upon this extraordinary fashion of breaking the news gently. "Come into the parlour," she said, faintly. Mr. Catesby, suppressing his surprise, followed her into the room.
Truefitt, he kissed Prudence with all the ardour which a seven-years' absence might be supposed to engender in the heart of a devoted brother. In return he received a box on the ears which made his head ring. "He's been drinking," gasped the dismayed Mrs. Truefitt. "Don't you know me, mother?" inquired Mr. Richard Catesby, in grievous astonishment. "He's mad," said her daughter.
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