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He left it lying on his desk, and a small, contemptible, little apprentice allowed his curiosity so far to get the better of him, that he looked at the address, and informed his companions that Mr. Corrie's correspondent was a certain Miss Alice Mason! Of course, Mr. Years passed away. The merchant's head became gray, but his gigantic frame was as straight and his step as firm as ever.
"Then it's all up with him!" said Bumpus; "and the pirate will meet his doom, as I once heard a feller say in a play though I little thought to see it acted in reality." "So he will," added Dick Price. Corrie's countenance fell, and Alice grew pale, Even Poopy and Toozle looked a little depressed. "No; it is not all up with him," cried Henry Stuart, energetically.
Before it had made up its mind on this point, Corrie's eye alighted on it. "Hist!" exclaimed he with a gesture of caution to his companions. "Look there! We've had nothing to eat for an awful time, nothing since breakfast on Sunday morning. I feel as if my interior had been amputated. Oh, what a jolly roast that fellow would make if we could only kill him!"
Before he could reply, the furious barking of a dog attracted Corrie's attention. He knew it to be the voice of Toozle.
"And what is your plan?" inquired Alice, eagerly, for the child had unbounded belief in Corrie's ability to do almost anything he chose to attempt, and Corrie knew this, and was proud as a peacock in consequence. "I'll get up on my knees," said he, "and then, once on them, I can easily rise to my feet and hop to you, and free you." "What d'ye think, Alice?"
Thus prepared for the worst, he sallied out on tiptoe, intending to mount guard at the missionary's door, and return to his own proper couch before the break of day. But alas for poor Corrie's powers of endurance!
"Why so, lad?" "Because then I would wade out to that wreck, clap my shoulder to her bow, shove her into deep water, carry you, and Alice, and Poopy aboard, haul out the main-mast by the roots, make an oar of it, and scull out to sea, havin' previously fired off the biggest gun aboard of her to let the pirates know what I was doing." Corrie's spirit was in a tumultuous and very rebellious state.
Poopy entered last, also on tiptoe, trembling violently, holding on with both hands to the waistband of Corrie's trousers, and only restrained from instant flight by her anxieties and her strong love for little Alice.
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