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Mr Vallance for that was his name shouted in my ear. "Well," I said, shouting again, "if I was captain, I should run all risks, and get some of that iron over the side." "Why don't he do it, then?" he exclaimed; and of course, being nobody on board that ship, I could only shake my head.
If I were looking out for an example in order to show what not to do, I should take the specimen of an ordinary bed in a private house: a wooden bedstead, two or even three mattresses piled up to above the height of a table; a vallance attached to the frame nothing but a miracle could ever thoroughly dry or air such a bed and bedding.
He entered a familiar hotel, and strolled toward the bar quite in his old assured way. "There's a poor devil outside, Jimmy," he said to the bartender, "who says he's hungry and looks it. You know what they do when you give them money. Fix up a sandwich or two for him; and I'll see that he doesn't throw it away." "Certainly, Mr. Vallance," said the bartender. "They ain't all fakes.
He seemed so affected by the reflection that he let his hand close, as if unconsciously, upon Master Vallance's tankard, which Master Vallance had set upon the table untasted, and before the innkeeper could interfere its contents had disappeared down Halfman's throat and a second empty vessel rattled upon the board.
Carter followed close at his heels. "Stop that man!" he roared to one of the fishermen; "stop him!" I suppose the instinct of self-preservation inspired Stephen Vallance to make that frantic rush, though there was no possible means of escape out of the vessel, except into the open boat, or the still more open sea.
"Except the poor turkey gobbler," said Mrs Vallance. "Did they get into the house?" Mary now ventured to ask. "No, my dear, no; they were not so daring as that. This sort of tramps is not too fond of going where there are likely to be dogs and pistols."
To command seemed more natural to her than to obey, and far more pleasant, and this often caused trouble to herself and others. True, nothing could be more thorough than her repentance after a fit of naughtiness, for she was a very affectionate child; but then she was quite ready on the next occasion to repeat the offence as ready as Mrs Vallance was to forgive it.
Master Vallance did fill the mugs again, more than once, and he and the stranger did have a chat; at least, they talked together for the better part of an hour. In all that time Master Vallance, fumbling foolishly with flagrant questions, learned little of his companion save what that companion was willing, or maybe determined, that he should learn.
At ten o'clock on the next day the two stood at the door of Lawyer Mead's office in Ann Street. Ide's nerves fluttered worse than ever when the hour approached; and Vallance could not decide to leave him a possible prey to the dangers he dreaded. When they entered the office, Lawyer Mead looked at them wonderingly. He and Vallance were old friends.
"But the papers gave no tidings of Joseph Wilmot; and I was surprised, at the end of a week's time, to read the account of a detective's skirmish on board a schooner some miles off Hull, which had resulted in the drowning of one Stephen Vallance, an old offender. The detective's name was given as Henry Carter.
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