Part 34 (1/2)
”Don't be disappointed,” said Aleck, one to bed?”
”Hours ago, ry because I hadn't come back?”
”He didn't say so, Master Aleck”
”But he asked if I'd come home?”
”Nay, he didn't”
”He went down into the boat harbour?”
”That he didn't, Master Aleck”
”Then he went up on the cliff to look out with the glass?”
”Nay; he's been writing his eyes out of his head almost, Master Aleck
Wouldn't come down to his dinner nor yet to his tea, and I had to take hi on a tray, or else he wouldn't ha' eat a lad when he's writ his book”
”Then he didn't know I hadn't coht about you a bit”
”Hah!” sighed Aleck
”But what have you been a-doing of, Master Aleck? Not fighting again, have you?”
”You don't see any marks, do you?”
”Nay, I don't see no marks; but whatever did make you so late, Master Aleck?”
”Someone broke a hole in the boat, and we had to mend it, that's all
Now cut er down at the boat-shelter; he's nearly starved”
The provender illingly out and carried down, and soon after Aleck lay drea over the adventures of the day
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
The next s that saluted Aleck's eyes onhis way up to the look-out on the cliff, was the sloop-of-war about a couple of , followed at a short distance by the Revenue cutter, and the lad had not been watching five 's work in the garden was at a standstill, that individual being laid flat upon his chest watching the vessels' ht on the cliffs, dotted about which lay Eilygugg, there was a white speck here and a blue speck there, and a littleproved to the lad that there was another speck upon the edge of the farthest cliff in view
”Woht Aleck, and he hurried back to see if his uncle was down, and if he were not to return to the cliff-top with the glass
But the captain was just descending, and his first words were:
”That's right, et my paper?”