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"Not half so filthy as white, if you come to that," retorts Algy, loftily, looking up from the lemon he is grating to extinguish his brother. "They clear white sugar with but "
Less than an hour later, with all their meager treasure in worldly goods roped to the last of Dave's horses, they quitted the claim, taking Algy, the Chinese cook, along. They were homeless wanderers with no place in all the world to turn. Without Van they were utterly lost. They expected him to come that day to the cove.
"Sturdy, half-disciplined beggars," continued the B. M. O., watching the mountain plank through his glasses; "every variety of adventurer in their ranks cattlemen, ranchmen, Hudson Bay trappers, North West police, lumbermen, mail carriers, bear hunters, Indians, renegade frontiersmen, soldiers of fortune a sweet lot, Algy." "Ow."
He sniffed luxuriantly. "It's something else." "Ronny's right," said Algy cordially. "It isn't the engines. It's the way the boat heaves up and down and up and down and up and down . . ." He shifted his cigar to his left hand in order to give with his right a spirited illustration of a Channel steamer going up and down and up and down and up and down.
And now that he comes, he takes our choicest and best. With nothing less is he content. Barbara sickens. Not until the need for her tender nursing is ended, not until Algy can do without her, does she go; and then she makes haste to leave us.
I suppose that, despite my change of name, I cannot yet be wholly a Tempest; for, while I remain perfectly serene and calm during Sir Roger's few plain words, I am one red misery while Algy is returning thanks for the bridesmaids, which he does in so appallingly lame, stammering, and altogether agonizing a manner, that I have serious thoughts of slipping from my bridegroom's side under the friendly shade of the table, among its sheltering legs.
But don't let me hear so much as a peep about Algy from one of this bunch, or Eden will turn into Hades." As the men arose to their feet sheepishly, and began to slink away he added to the spokesman, "You there with the face for pie, go up to my camp and call the boys to feed." The men disappeared.
" And half of ’em unruly Yankees the most objectionable half, you know." "A bad lot," remarked the Honorable Algy. "Not at all," said the B. M. O. complacently; "I’ve a relative of sorts with ’em leftenant, I believe a Yankee brother-in-law, in point of fact." "Ow." "Married a step-sister in the States.
"Are not you cold?" he says, perceiving the open window. "Not I!" reply I, brusquely "naught never comes to harm." "I wish you would have a shawl!" he says, as the evening wind comes, with the tartness of autumn, to his face. "Why do not you say, 'do, for my sake! as Algy once said to me, when he mistook me in the dark for Mrs.
Besides, Marcia loves me, and it's pleasant to be loved!" Poor Lord Algy. He certainly thought there could be no question about Marcia's affection for him.
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