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For Tyke had refused to be kept out of the work of recovering the treasure, and when Drew had strolled off with the intention of discovering what had frightened Ruth and had been followed shortly after by the latter, the old man had seized Drew's abandoned shovel and had gone lustily to work.
He thought of her until he went to sleep and then his thinking changed to dreaming. Decidedly, Tyke was not the only one who was hard hit on that eventful day. When Allen Drew opened his eyes the next morning, he was conscious of an unusual feeling of elation. He lay for a moment in the twilight zone between sleeping and waking, seeking the reason. Then in a flash it came to him.
And now there's one thing sure: you and me are to be a pair of friends. I'm a kind of a henchman to Davie here; I'm like a tyke at his heels; and whatever he cares for, I've got to care for too and by the holy airn! they've got to care for me! So now you can see what way you stand with Alan Breck, and ye'll find ye'll hardly lose on the transaction.
It would be a little icicle, so it would be, in a little while." "Let's see where he's going, and whom he belongs to," Mr. Carter said. "I'll have to make a note of this, and so will Jim, the baggage-man. You want to take good care of this little tyke, for the railroad is responsible for him while he is in transit."
At that moment Tyke Grimshaw's face appeared at the doorway. "How are you making it, Allen?" he questioned. "First rate," was the answer. The young man was rather put out over the interruption, yet he could not help but remember what Grimshaw had done for him and he gave the old man a warm look of gratitude. "We're going to have some rough sailing for a little while," announced Grimshaw.
'Die for the law! 'You HOPE such a death for your friend, Evan? 'And that do I e'en; would you have me wish him to die on a bundle of wet straw in yon den of his, like a mangy tyke? 'But what becomes of Alice, then? 'Troth, if such an accident were to happen, as her father would not need her help ony langer, I ken nought to hinder me to marry her mysell.
Mother died when I wuz a little tyke, an' Aunt Mary raised me till I wuz big enuff to make my own livin'. Down here in the Southwest, you see, most uv the girls is boys; there ain't none uv them civilizin' influences folks talk uv, nothin' but flowers 'nd birds 'nd such things as poetry tells about.
The stranger's one remaining eye had, after all, seen more of the world than his own two good optics would likely ever see. From these fruitless and fantastic musings he roused himself with an effort. A glance at his watch startled him. This would never do. As long as he took Tyke Grimshaw's money he must do Tyke Grimshaw's work.
'T is always the latest importations take the hottest part against the gentry." "Nay, dadda, I think he " "Mark me, that's what takes the tyke to the village so often." "He said 't was to drill he went." "To drill?" questioned the squire. "What meant he by that?" "I asked him, and he said 't was quadrille. Dost think he meant dancing or cards?"
Traill's astonishing fluency always carried all walls of resistance before it with men of slower wit and speech. Only a superior man could brush time-honored rules aside so curtly and stand on his human rights so surely. James Brown pulled his bonnet off deferentially, scratched his shock head and shifted his pipe. Finally he admitted: "Weel, there was a bit tyke i' the kirkyaird twa days syne.
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