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"No help from your quarter, then, Darry," sighed Midshipman Wolgast. "Farl, help me out. Tell me some way in which I can improve my fitness for the post of honor that has been thrust upon me. I assure you I didn't seek it." "Wolgast, my objection to you has nothing personal in it," Farley went on.
Now the old treasurer, Jacob Zitsewitz, who had quitted Wolgast to enter the service of his Grace, was so shocked at these proceedings, that he killed himself out of pure grief and shame. He was an upright, excellent man, this old Zitsewitz, though perchance, like old Duke Barnim, he loved the maidens and a lusty Pomeranian draught rather too well.
"Wolly, you have the luck to command an eleven in which most of the men are nearly, if not quite, as good as the captain. You're not head and shoulders over the rest, and you don't tower -that's all. Wolly, I apologize for my criticisms. Darry has shown me the truth." "Then you look for a big slaughter list for us this year, Darry?" Wolgast asked.
Wolgast looked him over, then rejoined: "Somehow, I think you're in pretty good form. I'll feel better, very likely, after we've played for ten minutes. Darry, old fellow, just don't forget how much the Navy depends upon you." "Are you all right, Davy?" Dan Dalzell demanded in a more than anxious undertone. "I certainly am, Danny boy." "But, you know "
For next morning she came into the room with her red silk bodice, and the net on her hair, and the apron; summa, dressed in all the things I had bought her at Wolgast, so that the young lord was amazed, and talked much with her over the morning meal. Whereupon he took his leave, and desired me to visit him at his castle.
"Hustle forward and rig a rope loop to the anchor cable. How long is the anchor?" "About three feet, sir." "Then rig the loop two feet above the mudhook." "Yes, sir." "Hustle!" "Yes, sir." "Is Gray trying to stay under? Trying to drown himself as a sign of his repentance?" whispered Wolgast in Dave's ear. But Darrin shook his head. An instant later Gray shot up to the surface -alone!
The vibrated motion must have been imparted downward, for soon Dan Dalzell's head came above water. "Everyone all right?" called Dan, as soon as he had gulped in a mouthful of air. "O.K." nodded Wolgast. "Come alongside and let me haul you in." "You let me alone," muttered Dalzell, coming alongside and grasping the rail. "Do you think a short cold bath makes me too weak to attend to myself?"
How Sidonia meets their Graces upon the ice Item, how Dinnies Kleist beheads himself, and my gracious lord of Wolgast perishes miserably. The next morning early the whole train set off from Uckermund in the highest spirits, passing net after net, till the Duke of Mecklenburg, as well as the Elector, lifted their hands in astonishment. But what happened?
"Get anchor up and start the steamer back to Annapolis at the best speed possible," ordered Dave, long before he could talk in a natural voice. Wolgast and Dan aided Danny in hoisting the anchor. Steam was crowded on and the little craft cut a swift, straight path for Annapolis. "Pauline is opening her eyes!" cried Farley, after twenty minutes more of vigorous work in trying to restore the girl.
In Wolgast I met with many persons whose fathers had known Sidonia, and what they related to me concerning her I have summed up into connection for your Highness as follows. When Duke Barnim reached the Diet at Treptow, he immediately made known Sidonia's request to the Grand Chamberlain of Wolgast, Ulrich von Schwerin, who was also guardian to the five young princes.
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