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Updated: June 11, 2025
I had hardly spoken these words when my father appeared at the door. "Why, Sep, Uggleston!" he exclaimed; "you here?" "Why, father!" I cried, catching him by the arm. "I thought you had gone."
As I said, Jonas Uggleston never came back, but one day a bronzed white-headed old sailor was seated at the door of the smuggler's cottage when I went to call on Bigley, and this old fellow rose with quite a broad grin on his face. I stared for a moment, he was so foreign-looking with his clipped beard and quaintly cut garb.
"No I'm not sure," said my father; and he mentioned how Jonas Uggleston seemed to be watching him. "That's bad. But never mind; the place is yours. Have you got your deeds?" "No," said my father, "Lawyer Markley said they would be ready in a day or two. That was last week." "Take the pony and ride over to Barnstaple at once, and get them.
For it seemed to me that it might be very nice for my father to have found a mine of lead and silver, and that it would be very interesting to see it dug out and melted, as we had melted those pieces that day of course in a large way; but I did not feel as if I wanted to be rich, and I would a great deal rather then have been wandering out there on the cliff with Bob Chowne or Bigley Uggleston, when I heard a shout, and, looking in the direction, there, high up on the cliff path, and coming towards me with long strides, was my last-named school-fellow.
"But there seems to be a way up to a shelf of rock, father," I said; "close there by the point." "Ah!" he cried. "But no higher." "Never mind," he said sharply. "Go on first. Quick!" It was quite necessary to be quick, for the water was already lapping among the stones at the foot of the chink and mounting fast. "Yes, I see," said my father. "There! Lose no time. Up with you, Uggleston.
Now, Uggleston." I shall never forget old Jonas's fierce scowl as he walked down to the boat, into which he stepped, and remained in the bows, while my father went into the stern-sheets, and was followed by the lieutenant.
"After the Frenchman eh?" said our foreman, gazing hard, wide-eyed and open-mouthed, as his cheeks flushed and he seemed to forget his wounds. "Well, then, all I can say is, that I hope they'll be caught." "Let's get down," I said. "See, there's the doctor bringing Bigley Uggleston back on his pony. I wonder how he is."
I was just about to descend when a voice behind me made me turn. "Going down, Sep?" I turned to confront Bigley Uggleston, who looked at me imploringly. "Ask him if I may come down too?" "Who's that?" said my father sharply. "Oh, I see. Yes, he can come."
"I don't like your giving up old companions, Sep, or seeming to be proud; but there are beginning to be reasons why you should not be quite so intimate with young Uggleston." "Oh, father!" I exclaimed dolefully. "Why, I thought that you and old Uggleston were good friends now." "Oh, yes; the best of friends," said my father sarcastically.
I hope not, my boy; but at the same time I feel as if I ought not to expose myself to risks, and I prefer to keep Jonas Uggleston at the same distance as he has before stood. We can be civil." "I'm sorry," I said. "Sorry?" "Yes, father," I replied, "because I like Bigley Uggleston." "So do I, my boy.
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