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It wouldn't benefit the children. I suppose it's no use hunting for his family? 'Not much, I should say. 'Well, lucky we have no children of our own. Worst of it is, I don't like the poor little wretches, and my wife doesn't either. We must find a home for them. 'I say, Abbott, you must let me go halves at that. 'Hang it, no! Why should you support Wager's children?
The others made another attempt to double the cape, but the wind, the sea, and currents were too strong for them, and again they failed. So disheartened were they now, that caring little for life, they agreed to return to their original station on Wager's Island, and to end their days in miserable existence there.
Abbott that she might be able to maintain Wager's children. With all the difficulty in the world had he gained his point. Mrs. Abbott did not wish the children to go into other hands; she made it a matter of conscience to keep them by her, and to educate them, yet this seemed barely possible with the combat for a livelihood before her. Mrs.
Well, he must let Abbott know of this. It might be as well, perhaps, if he called on Mrs. Abbott tomorrow, to remove any doubt that might remain in her mind. The fellow Wager being an old acquaintance of his, he could not get rid of a sense of far-off responsibility in this matter; though, happily, Wager's meeting with Mrs.
It was necessary to arrive at some new arrangement regarding Wager's children; for the boy, Albert, would soon be nine years old, and, as Mrs. Abbott confessed, he had given her a great deal of trouble.
Ah, to be sure, it must have something to do with Wager's children an accident, a death. But why send for him? He made a little change in his dress, and drove forthwith to Kilburn. As his cab stopped, he saw that all the blinds in the front of the Abbotts' house were drawn down. Death, then, obviously. It was with a painful shaking of the nerves that he knocked for admission. 'Mr. Abbott ?
It relieved him when, without undue abruptness, he could pass to the practical urgencies of the case. Were Wager's children still in the house? Alas! they were, and Mrs. Abbott knew not what to do about them. 'You can't think of anyone who would take them for a day or two, even? Among her acquaintances there was not one of whom she could venture to ask such a service.
"How much have you offered him as a salary?" "Two hundred a month, to be paid out of the funds." "Janet," said Crawford, "it's a good thing I'm married, or I'd apply for the post myself." "All right," agreed Killigrew; "a bargain's a bargain." "A wager's a wager," thought Kitty. "If you wake up some fine morning and find the funds gone . . ."
It's good enough if it's done to rights; but make no mistake, boys, it's a battle as must be fought game, and right back to the ropes, or not at all. If there's a bird here that won't stand the steel he'd better be put in a bag and took home again. 'Never mind about the steel, daddy, says one of the new men. 'We're all good for a flutter when the wager's good.
The flesh on the bodies had become perfectly dry and hard, and it was thought that it must be the kind of burial given to the great men or Caciques of the Indians. After a terrible journey back to Wager's Island they reached it alive, though again worn out by hunger and fatigue.
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