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"No!" returned Noah. "I will teach him lesson, and be pleased for ebber and ebber." And he walked away and began to gather up some sticks and carry them to the tree where Cludde, utterly exhausted, seemed to have fainted away. I asked Moses what sum would purchase Noah's freedom, ready to spend my last penny to prevent the hideous scene for which preparation was being made.
"Why should you suppose it is?" I said. "Why did you keep it? Come, I must know." "Oh, confound you, Cludde," I said, "why don't you let me go to sleep?" "You had some design in keeping that coin," he said; "I want to know what it was." "Well, if you insist," I said, "I meant to keep it until I could return it to you with interest. But Fate, you see, has found a better use for it."
"I'm not spotless done things I am ashamed of but you carried things too far you wanted to force her to marry you " "And do you think she will marry you now, you fool?" cried Vetch, with a flash of his old fiery temper. "I could wish her to wed a better man," says poor Cludde. "Even so good as Mr. Humphrey Bold," says Vetch with a sneer. Cludde looked at me.
"Which you have killed," said Cludde, interrupting him. "But you will not forget all the past our school days, the merry times we had then and after, all I have done with you, and for you. For a dozen years we were as close as brothers; you won't turn against me now?" "I know, but Lucy 'twas unpardonable," Cludde stammered in great discomfort.
The door was a stout one, and finding it resisted their blows, Vetch and Cludde soon desisted, and I supposed that they had withdrawn altogether. But after a short interval, a violent crash on the back door, which was of much slighter timber, warned me that I must still be prepared to fight against heavy odds.
"You must just run about and slap yourself," cries Joe; "Mr. Cludde and me can help me particler, my name being so. "True, it did not," I confessed. "I am lucky in having an old mariner like you to look after me." "Ay, and there be old mariners aboard that brig, too. See, they bin and dropped a couple of boats out, to tow her off."
Cludde, ever chicken-hearted, turned pale, expecting a like handling, but he was spared, for the master cried to his men to seize me, and I was in a minute again pinioned and laid where I had been before. "Hot as pepper," says the master, with a grin to Vetch. "Yes," I cried, with an impetuous rage I could not check, "and 'twill be hot for you some day.
A hole had been cut down the center of the pillar, and there lay the missing money doubloons and silver dollars. Leaving McTavish to gather them up and count them, Cludde and I went down to the kitchen. I told Vetch briefly that the money was found. Even now his bravado did not desert him.
God knows Cludde had done me harm enough; but for the working of a gracious Providence he had ruined my life; but all remembrance of this fled from me as I beheld his pitiful plight and mortal terror, and heard his altered voice screaming for mercy. "I know him; he was once a friend of mine," I cried, and God forgive me the lie. "Let him go; don't torture him any longer." Noah laughed in my face.
I make no doubt that she gave tongue to her feeling in the hearing of her son Dick, for among the many taunts which he and his boon fellow Cyrus Vetch cast at me was that I was what they pleased to call a "charity child." I have mentioned Cyrus Vetch. If I feared Dick Cludde, I both feared and hated his companion.
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