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"I don't like to be in the company of such people." "Nor do I," agreed the other two, and there was a pause for reflection. "Where could we go?" asked Paul. "We would only get lost again in the woods." "But I am afraid of that butcher with his knife," said Fritz. "That basket-maker would not let him hurt us."
"Oh, well, all the village knows that! and though I'm quite new to the village I've only been here a week I know it too. You're old David, the basket-maker, aren't you?" "Yes." And Helmsley nodded emphatically "That's me!" "Then I know all about you! My name's Angus Reay. I'm a Scotchman, I am, or rather, I was a journalist, and as poor as Job! That's me! Come along!"
Looking at her closely, he saw that her beautiful dark eyes were heavy and swollen with weeping. "Poor child! She is continually grieving over the drinking habit of her father," he thought; and the bitterest anger rose up in his heart against the old basket-maker for bringing a tear to those beautiful dark eyes.
But in that case I hope you will take his generous desire to serve my poor basket-maker into benevolent consideration." "Do not press me; I feel so reluctant to refuse any request of yours. But I have my own theory as to the management of an estate, and my system does not allow of favour.
'But the condition! What have I, a poor, penniless basket-maker, even at this moment owing you money what have I which you, the son of a rich father, would stoop to accept? I cried in the utmost despair. He stooped nearer, and whispered in my ear: "'You have a treasure which I long to possess. Give me Bernardine. I I will marry the girl, and will forever hold my peace.
But Will did not think the question unmeaning or insulting. He, the poor cripple, felt a vast superiority on the scale of joyous being over the young Hercules, well born, cultured, and wealthy, who could know so little of happiness as to ask the crippled basket-maker if he were happy. he, blessed husband and father! LILY was seated on the grass under a chestnut-tree on the lawn.
Ralph went back to bed, but Bud, who was only too eager to put in his best licks, walked by the side of old John Pearson the six miles over to Buckeye Run, and at last, after eleven o'clock, he deposited him in a hollow sycamore by the road, there to wait the coming of the mail-wagon that would carry him into Jackson County. "Good-by," said the basket-maker, as Bud mounted the colt to return.
Then he spoke of you, Bernardine, and and turning upon him with the ferocity of an enraged lion, I swore that I would kill him on sight. "'Beware! take care, laughed Jasper Wilde, turning to my enemy; 'the old basket-maker always keeps his word. You are in danger, my boy. "At this the crowd jeered. I hurried away.
There was no mystery about his life he was not a stolen child, and he could faintly remember the little cottage where he had lived with his mother before she died, leaving him perfectly friendless and penniless, so that he was glad to pick up an odd sixpence, or even less, wherever he could, till one day he fell in with Mick, who offered him his food and the chance of more by degrees, as he wanted a sharp lad to help him in his various trades of pedlar, tinker, basket-maker, wicker-chair mender, etc., not to speak of poultry-stealing, orchard-robbing, and even child-thieving when he got a chance that seemed likely to be profitable.
Was he "old David the basket-maker," or David Helmsley the millionaire? He hardly knew. It did not seem worth while to consider the problem of his own identity.
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