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Arrangements are extraordinary pliable things if you handle them firmly, and we'd like to have you. A speech from you about the General would be most interesting. It would stimulate the whole population. Wouldn't it, Major?" "I'd like to hear it," said the Major. "Good-bye then, for the present," said Dr. O'Grady. "Come along, Major.
"And when are we going to try for fish; I brought my rod and lines along, thinking we'd have a fish dinner some fine day?" complained Will. "Wait, there's plenty of time. The season is nearly over, but if a warm day comes along we ought to be able to get some bass, I think," remarked Frank, who was something of an authority in that line.
It belonged to them entirely the most marvellous secret that anybody could possibly imagine. Maria, they took for granted, would share it with them. A hole in Time lay waiting to receive them. A Day Will Come at last was actually coming. "We'd better pack up," said Judy after tea. She said it calmly, but the voice had a whisper of intense expectancy in it.
"If we only had sunshine like this," he announced with a comprehensive wave of his hand, regardless of the fact that it was ten o'clock at night, "I'd clear a million dollars this season. We've got nearly fifteen hundred dollars in that tent to-night, Dick. Twenty-one hundred on the day. A week of this beautiful sunshine and we'd be doing three thousand a day.
Here, leaning on the rope, and scientifically chewing a straw while he talked, Ben played showman to his heart's content till the neigh of a horse from the circus tent beyond reminded him of the joys to come. "We'd better hurry along and get good seats before folks begin to crowd. I want to sit near the curtain and see if any of Smithers's lot are 'round."
But then it went away again and I forgot it. One does forget things everything when one is hard at work. But I'm awfully sorry. And now I think we'd better say good-bye." Her voice faltered against her will. He raised himself quickly. "No no," he said passionately, "we won't say good-bye. But you must let me think for you, as well as for myself."
Thode groaned. "I had counted on finding her here. Could she have returned to Limasito?" "No, I've made inquiries. You see," Winnie explained hastily, "we'd grown to be pretty-good friends and naturally the governor felt responsible for her, in a way. He's been in constant communication with Jim Baggott down there the man who runs the hotel " "I remember."
De cappen ask me if I know where we were. I say, "I suppose we somewhere on de Spanish Main." "All right," he answer; "maybe you're not much of a navigator?" "`Poor nigger like me know berry little 'cept how to make sea-pie, I say. He den order me to go below, and soon afterwards I hear de roar ob de breakers, and I know we'd got near the shore.
Then I got back to my spar, for we'd gone a long fifty fathoms under water, and when I reached it I fainted dead away." "And then?" "Well, when I came to, it was calm, and there was the dead shark floatin' beside me. I paddled my spar over to him and I got loose a few yards of halliard that were hangin' from one end of it.
"We'd be happy to have you with us always, when the camping fever came along," Bandy-legs informed them, as he came in for his third helping; "though of course that would be impossible, because we sometimes get away off out of touch with everything, and girls couldn't stand what we put up with. Besides, I don't believe your folks would let you try it.
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