Part 11 (1/2)
”Seems clearer, eh?”
”Yes, uncle”
”Feel feverish?”
”No, uncle, I think not I'ood deal knocked about, then?”
”I don't quite know, uncle I suppose so It all seems very dreamy now”
”Consequence of injury to the head Soldiers are in that condition sometimes after a blow from the butt end of a musket”
”Are they, uncle?” asked Aleck, as half ready to believe that this was all part of his dream
The captain nodded, and sat silent for a fewat the bundle, hat, and cane Then--
”So you've been o away, uncle; not run”
”Hah! Sa, my lad”
”No, uncle”
”What! Don't contradict ain?”
”No, uncle”
”Hu away?”
”I had some such ideas, uncle, when I tied them up,” said the lad, firmly; ”but I should not have done that”
”Indeed! Then why did you tie theo away, uncle”
”Well, that's what I said, sir”
”That was not quite correct, uncle If I ran away it would have been without telling you”
”Of course, and that's what you meant to do”
”No, uncle; I feel now that I could not have done that I should have co to tell you that I felt as if I should be better away, and that I would go to sea at once”
”Humph! And if you went away, sir, what's to become of me?”
”I don't know, uncle, only I feel that you'd be better without such an obstinate, disobedient fellow as I am”