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He came the next day, and they were alone, and all she found was: "I didn't know that you and Kitty Mayne were such friends." He answered with indifference that he didn't know it either, and in the reaction of relief she declared: "She's certainly ever so much prettier than she was..."
Doe soe, if thou hast iust cause: howsoever, When thy swift ship cutts through the curled mayne, Dance to see England, yet speake well of Spayne. Pike. I shall. Where must I leave my pistoletts? Gent. Follow mee.
Well, we have both taken some chances since he was a Customs-clerk and I a contrabandista running the old Mercedes, but I reckon this is my rashest plunge. Anyhow, if I get my money back or not, I've put up the goods. Now you can tell Mayne to break out the guns." Mayne gave orders, derrick-booms swung from the stumpy masts, pulleys rattled, and heavy cases rose from the holds.
Anyhow, time is important and if you work this ball properly it ought to give us another week. You'll get the money for your soldiers shortly afterwards and Mayne will land your guns." The president's dark face softened and he smiled. "I know whom I can trust," he said and went away. "If it's possible for a half-breed to be an honest man, Don Hernando meets the bill," Adam remarked.
After a time, Adam resumed in a clearer voice: "All I have is yours; Mackellar will prove the will, but you'll see Alvarez out, as I meant to do. Another thing; Mayne will get the old boat off tomorrow, and when he's loaded up I want you to take me out and land me on the creek I marked behind Salinas Point. He can fly the flag half-mast; I'll have started on the lone trail then.
Sitting down close by, he lighted a cigar and turned to Kit. "We ought to raise the coast before it's dark and I reckon Mayne will get his bearings," he remarked. "The lagoon's a blamed awkward place to enter and I'd have waited until to-morrow only that Don Hernando is expecting us."
As for him, he was as horribly afraid of them as they would have been of him, had they known. I could not always save myself from the sin of smiling at an ironic situation. Judge Mayne had at first eyed the man askance, watching him as his own cats might an interloping stray dog.
"She'd have steered handier if we'd gone in against the ebb; but there's a better chance of coming off if she touches ground." "You don't want to touch ground and stop there with the B.F. goods on board," Adam replied. After this, there was silence except when Mayne gave an order. White upheavals broke the passing swell on both sides of the ship.
He felt he hated the smothering haze that rolled in front and hid the dangers, but they must go on and trust to luck. He knew Adam's plans and no arguments would shake his resolve. Half an hour later a twinkle broke out some distance ahead and Mayne rang his telegraph. "I'm thankful for that, anyhow," he remarked. "We'll let her go, but I have my doubts about what will happen next."
You see, there had come to it a most wonderful present, a surprise full of tears and laughter. Captain Walter Mayne reached home on Christmas Eve. For a while they had thought that he would never come back at all. News had been received that he was grievously wounded in France shot to pieces, in effect, leading his men near Chateau-Thierry. His life hung on the ragged edge of those wounds.
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