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The remainder of the "jollies" were drawn up in martial array on the after part of the poop, under the command of Captain Targetts and Lieutenants Wagstaff and Shunter of the same serviceable corps; all of the men spick and span in their full regimentals and appearing as smart as if on the parade ground at Forton; although, but a few minutes previously, most of the poor fellows had been washing plates and mess traps, and performing other menial duties below.
Hazel lurched unsteadily at first, but presently she caught the swinging motion and could maintain her balance without holding stiffly to the saddle horn. They crossed the small meadow and plunged into thick woods again. For the greater part of the way Hazel could see nothing; she could tell that Wagstaff and the pack horses moved before her by the sounds of their progress, and that was all.
"We ought to go up to the swamps to-morrow and rustle some duck eggs," Bill observed irrelevantly his eyes following the arrow flight of a mallard flock. But his wife was counting audibly, checking the days off on her fingers. "This is July the twenty-fifth, Mr. Roaring Bill Wagstaff," she announced. "We've been married exactly one month." "A whole month?" he echoed, in mock astonishment.
Lorimer is a partner in the brokerage firm of Bray, Parkinson & Co., and is president of the Free Gold Mining Company. Brooks is manager of the Acme Advertisers, and secretary of Free Gold. Bray and Parkinson are stockholders, and Wagstaff is a stockholder and also manager of the Free Gold properties in B. C. All are well known about town.
And for lack of other occupation she went into the hall and got the evening paper, which the carrier had just delivered. A staring headline on the front page stiffened her to scandalized attention. Straight across the tops of two columns it ran, a facetious caption: WILLIAM WAGSTAFF IS A BEAR Under that the subhead: Husky Mining Man Tumbles Prices and Brokers.
It was much frequented by the gallants and cavalieros of the reign of Elizabeth, and was looked into now and then by the wits of Charles the Second's day. But what Wagstaff principally prides himself upon is that Henry the Eighth, in one of his nocturnal rambles, broke the head of one of his ancestors with his famous walking-staff.
In the first months of their marriage she had assured herself and him repeatedly that she could be perfectly happy and contented any place on earth with Bill Wagstaff. Emotion has blinded wiser folk, and perhaps that is merely a little device of nature's, for if one could look into the future with too great a clarity of vision there would be fewer matings.
The Hampshire royalists had commenced their march for Salisbury, when, learning that Wagstaff had left that city, they immediately dispersed. Other risings at the same time took place in the counties of Montgomery, Shropshire, Nottingham, York, and Northumberland, but everywhere with similar results.
"Yes, it's big big and noisy and dirty, and full of wrecks human derelicts in an industrial Sargasso Sea like all big cities the world over. I don't like 'em." Wagstaff spoke casually, as much to himself as to her, and he did not pursue the subject, but began his meal. "What sort of meat is this?" Hazel asked after a few minutes of silence.
"And unless they've made a radical change in their sailing schedules there should be a boat clear to-morrow at noon." A black cloud of smoke was rolling up from the funnel of the Stanley D. as Bill Wagstaff piloted Hazel from the grimy Bella Coola hotel to the wharf. "There aren't many passengers," he told her. "They're mostly cannery men. But you'll have the captain's wife to chaperon you.
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