Part 17 (2/2)
”That I has!” Skipper Bill ejaculated; ”an' rief o' Saint Pierre”
”They've a jail there, I'm told”
”Sure 'tis like home t' me,” said Skipper Bill ”I've been in it; an'
I'm told they've an eye open t' clap ain
”Jus' t' help a poor ed
The lad hesitated
”Sure, I've sore need o' your li with o to law for your own?” Archie asked, with a little grin
”Law!” Bill o' Burnt Bay burst out ”'Tis a poor show I'd have in a court at Saint Pierre Hut!” he snorted ”Law!--for a Newfoundlander in Saint Pierre!”
”My father----” Archie began
”I'll have the help o' no man's money nor brains nor influence in a business so simple,” Bill protested
The situation was this: Bill o' Burnt Bay had chartered a schooner--his antique schooner--the schooner that was forever on the point of sinking with all hands--Bill had chartered the schooner _Heavenly Hoo from Saint Pierre
But no sooner had the schooner appeared in French waters than she was impounded for a debt that Luke Foremast unhappily owed Garnot & Cie, of Saint Pierre It was a high-handed proceeding, of course; and it was perhaps undertaken without scruple because of the unpopularity of all Newfoundlanders
Luke Forelo-Saxon roar; but roar and bellow and bark and growl as he would, it made no difference: the _Heavenly Home_ was seized, condemned and offered for sale, as Bill o' Burnt Bay had but now learned
”'Tis a hard thing to do,” Archie objected
”Hut!” Bill exclaioin' aboard in the dark an'
puttin' quietly out t' sea”
”Anyhow,” Archie laughed, ”I'll go”
Sir Archibald Ar liked to have his son stand upon his own feet
He did not wish to be unduly troubled with requests for perrown boy to fall into The boy should decide for himself, said he, where decision was reasonably possible for him; and if he made mistakes he would surely pay for them and learn caution and wisdo to his own decision and i out with Bill o'
Burnt Bay upon an expedition which pro and wholly unusual experience
Billy Topsail and Jimmie Grimm wished the expedition luck when it boarded the ht