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The young engineer did not reply, but looked round from one to the other, and gave Mrs Winthorpe a grateful smile. "Do you recollect where you left your gun?" said Dick eagerly, for the thought of the rust and mischief that would result from a night in the bog troubled him. "Left my gun!" he said. "Never mind now, Mr Marston," said the squire kindly. "Your things are wet, and we'll get you to bed.
One of those lovely summer-times when the sky is blue, and the earth is just in its most beautiful robe of green. "Going on the mere, Dick?" said his father. "Well, don't get drowned or bogged." "Dick will take care," said Mrs Winthorpe, who was busy cutting provender. "Tom Tallington going with you?" said the squire. "No, father; I'm going alone."
"But he'll shoot his sen oop in yon hut, squire, and fire at us and bring us down." "There will only be time for one shot, Mr Tallington," said Marston quietly, "and we can fetch him out before he has a chance to reload. Mr Winthorpe is right."
When you have found it, send Winthorpe back to me with the news. Take that long coil of thin rope that is in the bow, and pay it out as you go along. You might get lost even within two yards of the stream, and it would be dangerous to call or whistle. It will enable me to join you.
The two lads had left the grammar-school in the county town about a year before in consequence of a terrible outbreak of fever; and, Mrs Winthorpe declaring against their going back, they had been kept at home.
"Do not speak to him and do not let him speak," whispered the doctor. "Everything depends upon keeping him perfectly still, so that nature may not be interrupted in doing her portion of the work." Mrs Winthorpe bowed her head in acquiescence, and with a promise that he would return later in the day the doctor departed.
The next fortnight was passed in a state of misery, which made Dick Winthorpe feel as if he had ceased to be a boy, and had suddenly become a grown-up man. He wanted to do what was right.
Both lads declared that they did not want any supper, but Mrs Winthorpe had made certain preparations for them which they could not resist, and something very like a second meal was eaten before they retired for the night. As a rule, when one boy has a visitor for bed-fellow, it is some time before there is peace in that room.
Dave did not keep his promise the next day, nor the next; but Dick Winthorpe had his attention taken up by other matters, for a party of men arrived and stopped with their leaders at the Toft, where they were refreshed with ale and bread and cheese, previous to continuing their journey down to the seaside.
Get the piles up here at once, and if we work hard we can have the piles in and an embankment up before the next tide. A few days' hindrance, Mr Winthorpe, that's all."
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