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Oh! but isn't he a brick, Signy?" "He is just splendid," was the fervent answer. "They are all splendid," replied the lad, "except perhaps Tom Holtum. I don't like him much. And to think of cousin Neeven taking to that one of all the lot!
He kissed Signy fondly, and had no objections to offer to Fred's doing likewise, but when she disappeared with her nurse he muttered, "I ought not to have trusted her out of this isle." "What on earth has become of that duffer?" said Tom Holtum, when the Laulie arrived at the geo and no Yaspard appeared either on land or sea.
Holtum and Fred stood together at the window and watched the scientist distribute food to his dependants, while Fred told the Doctor a great deal of what had passed between himself and his hereditary enemy; and we may be sure his listener rejoiced over such a happy termination to the feud of years.
Holtum certainly did not indicate anything like hostile feeling. The lanyard was laughingly untied by the Doctor, who said, as he released and shook Yaspard's hands, "I am sure you can trust your prisoner with so much liberty, Tom." "Of course," said Tom; "I didn't see the fun of roping him at all, but he would have it so, and the Mitchells said it looked more ship-shape."
"I am not a bit tired or sleepy; and it will be such fun. Do let me go!" Permission was given, a note to Mr. Adiesen written by Dr. Holtum, and Tom despatched as envoy. He soon found a skipper willing to land him on Boden, and in the grey, quiet night, this most prosaic of the Lunda lads was started on a somewhat eerie journey.
It was, yes, it was a rare good fight the only time I ever came off best! Ha! ha! I was not a fighting boy as a rule. I may say Neeven could always lick me; so could my poor brother Yaspard. But that time don't know how it happened I thrashed Halsen. I did indeed, though you mayn't think it." "I am awfully surprised," said blunt Tom Holtum.
Holtum and their young captain to the boat, and with hearty good-will rowed home, singing lustily as they pulled "A life on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep." When the Lunda boat was out of sight Yaspard heaved a long sigh, and said to Signy, who with him had stood watching their new friends until the curves of the voe hid them from sight, "Well!
Holtum had very keen vision, and very soon he said in agitated tones, "Fred, lad, it is very like the boy Yaspard; and I don't see any boat about." "It certainly is Yaspard, with no jacket on, and a man beside him. Whatever can have happened?" The boat went straight for Yelholme, and as she reached it the Doctor called out, "My dear boy, what has happened to you?"
It was a cheerful day for the Squirradical when Holtum was restored to his brewery. "It's much worse than that," said Gideon; "a combination of circumstances really providentially unjust a in fact, a syndicate of murderers seem to have perceived my latent ability to rid them of the traces of their crime. It's a legal study after all, you see!"
Yaspard was not so confident, nor yet was Fred, but they did not discuss the point further; only Fred remarked, "I'd carry you both straight away to Lunda, and get Dr. Holtum to take you home and smooth matters as he only can; but ill news travels fast, and it is quite possible that the catastrophe has been reported at Moolapund; and reported with twenty exaggerations tacked on to it.
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