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Uncle Chipperton now began to praise Rectus, and he told what obligations the boy had put him under in Nassau, when he wrote to his father, and had that suit about the property stopped, and so relieved him Uncle Chipperton from cutting short his semi-tropical trip, and hurrying home to New York in the middle of winter. "But the suit isn't stopped," said Mr. Colbert.
But what are you going to do with your Minorcans, Rectus, when you catch them?" He laughed, but didn't mention his plans. "I didn't know how you got clams," he said. "I thought you caught them some way. It would never have entered my head to dig for them."
I had made out our accounts, and had his money ready to hand over to him, but I knew that his father had arranged for him to draw on a Savannah bank, both for the tug-boat money and for money for himself. I think that Mr. Colbert would have authorized me to do this drawing, if Rectus had not taken the matter into his own hands when he telegraphed.
Rectus and I had barely reached the stairs, by the way of the old fort, when Priscilla made her appearance in the ravine at the head of a crowd of whooping barefooted young rascals, who came skipping along as if they expected something to eat. "I'd never be a queen," said Rectus, "if I had to have such a lot of subjects as that."
If we shook up the bottle it would shine, so that, when we lowered it into the wells, we could see it go down to the very bottom, that is, if the cord should be long enough." At this instant, Corny went overboard! Rectus made a grab at her, but it was too late. He sprang to his feet, and I thought he was going over after her, but I seized him. "Sit down!" said I. "Watch her! She'll come up again.
"I had better sense than that," said Rectus, with a grin. "But I don't mind saying so now, as we're pretty near through with our travels. But father told me expressly that I was to consider myself in your charge." "You young rascal!" said I. "And he thought that you understood it so well that there was no need of saying much to me about it.
They don't object to the black governor, and our queen wont interfere with them in any way that I can see. She will have nothing to do with anybody but those native Africans, who keep to themselves, anyway." "If anybody should trouble us, who would it be? Soldiers or the policemen? How many soldiers have they here?" asked Corny. "There's only one company now in the barracks," said Rectus.
They look a good deal like Spaniards, Mr. Cholott said, and many of them are very excellent people. Rectus took the greatest interest in these Minorcans, but we didn't take board with any of them. We went to the house of a lady who was a friend of Mr. Cholott, and she gave us a splendid room, that looked right out over the harbor.
Just then, Rectus made a step forward. He had been looking very anxiously at the boys as they got into the boat, but he hadn't said anything. "Where are you going?" said I; for, as quick as a flash, the thought came into my mind that Rectus's heart had failed him, and that he would like to back out.
John's, the two men strode about, in an easy kind of a way, as if they wanted us to understand that this sort of thing was nothing to them. They were used to it, and could wear that style of boots every day if they wanted to. Rectus called them "the yellow-legged party," which wasn't a bad name. After steaming about twenty-five miles up the St.
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