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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
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for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:
CHAPTER III. AN AUCTION IN THE BIG DORMITORY. ]UR agitation was too
great to escape notice. Old Dan and his son?a brawny young
fisherman only some five or six years our senior?regarded us with
looks of amazement. " What be it, sirs ?" cried the former. Harry
slowly read the message aloud, and turned to me with a look of
inquiry which I answered with a nod. Then he told our two
honest-hearted humble friends what the message meant to himself and
to me. Almost everybody in the place knew why it was that we always
spent our holidays at school instead of going home like the other
boys?Dan and Joe were certainly no strangers to the fact that it
was because we had no home to go to. They knew from ourselves all
that we had ever known about our uncle Gabriel? so a very few words
sufficed to make them understand what the definite news of the loss
of the Eastern Starwith Major Bengough on board meant after the
ultimatum that had been delivered to us that morning. That must be
our last night at Beechy Bay?tomorrow morning we must pack up the
few things belonging to us and go?where ? "We won't eat the bread
of charity from his table, Rafe, any way," said Harry in a rather
choky voice. " No, old chap?we'll starve first." Dan and Joe said
very little, but as they walked up the beach with us towards the
school gates a weight seemed to be on the mind of each. Perhaps it
was just this weight on their minds that kept their tongues so
silent. " Good-night, Dan?and good-bye." With similar words I
offered my hand to Joe, as Harry extended his to Joe's father.
"Good-night, sir, and good-night, Master Rafe?but not good-bye yet.
We shall be sort of standing by tomorrow all day?p'raps two pairs
o' willing hands might come in useful in the matter o' boxes, and
so on." ...
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