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But with this thought came the regretful recollection that his predilection for bed was quickly discovered, and his further penalties took the form of the buckle end of his father's waist-belt. However, he put the proposition with much tact. "Say, kiddies," he began, "how soon does your momma put you to bed?" Vada shook her wise little head. "Momma don't. Poppa does."
The latter was said with more assurance, and he smiled vaguely into his friend's face. But Bill had gathered his scattered wits, and had had time to think. He nodded at little Vada, who was interestedly staring at the satin coats of his horses. "An' you takin' her out to help you locate it?" he inquired, with a raising of his shaggy brows. "Not just that," Scipio responded uncomfortably.
Jessie was clasping Jamie in her arms, kissing him hungrily, tears streaming down her cheeks, while, out of sheer sympathy, little Vada was clinging to her mother's skirts, her small face buried in amongst them, sobbing as though her heart would break. In a moment he was at her side.
But as his comment didn't reach the father's ears he went on placidly. "Wal, the rain poured down," he said, "so they was nigh drownded " "Why'd the rain tum?" suddenly inquired Jamie with interest. "Ah!" murmured Scipio. Then he added brightly, "Because he picked the fruit." "Y'see," explained Vada, with sisterly patronage, "he didn't orter picked the apple." Jamie nodded without understanding.
Then, after some consideration and trouble, having discovered a rag which had been used in the household "wash-up," and a piece of soap, he prepared to start on little Vada. But she instantly protested. "You first, Mister Fairy," she said cheerfully. "My poppa allus washes first. Then we has his water." "'Ess," agreed Jamie.
Then he suddenly thought of something he might have done. Surely he might have brought Vada with him. What a pity he didn't think of it before he started out. It was foolish of him, very foolish. But he had been so full of Jessie. The thought of winning her back had quite put everything else out of his head. Yes, it was a pity.
So Ethelwyn and 'Vada went for a run on the beach, and mother Elizabeth, with a look of happy care on her face, and her beloved six dolls in her arms, came out on the porch, where she had already taken a basin of water, soap, a tiny sponge, and towels.
But I demurred and pointed out that none of the racing-stables were fit places for us, since a steady stream of Spanish horses trickled through Marseilles and on through Vada Sabatia and Genoa to Rome, and there was too great a probability that we might come face to face with some groom, hostler or hanger-on from Marseilles who would know us at sight.
In the midst of his grief two little faces, and two pairs of round, wondering eyes appeared in the doorway. Two small infantile minds worked hard at the sight they beheld. Vada, whose quickness of perception was so much in advance of her brother's, murmured in his ear "Sleep." "Uh, seep," nodded the faithful boy. Then four little bare feet began to creep into the room.
From Vada Sabatia the coast road was better, but still far from easy. We were well content to noon at a tiny change-house between Albingaunum and Albintimilium and to sleep at Lumo, seventy-seven miles on.
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