He helped her out. "I have drifted in a way," he went on to explain. "I left home when I was a mere boy, and the spirit of savagery and unrest laid hold of me. I can't break away. And I'm not even sure that I want to. You, I dare say, can't understand." Yet he felt so sure, for some reason, that she could that he[Pg 71] merely nodded his head when she said briefly, "I can." "Then, too," he went on, "there is something in the Indian character that strikes a responsive chord in me. I come of lawless stock myself. I was born in Sidney." Then he stopped short. What business was it of hers where he had been born? He had never seen fit to speak of it before. Nevertheless he intended that she should understand now. So he made it quite plain. "Sidney was a convict settlement, you know," he said deliberately, "and marriages were promiscuous. My grandfather was an officer who was best away from England. My grandmother poisoned her first husband. That is on my mother's side. On my father's side it was about as mixed." He leaned back, crossing his booted legs and running his fingers into his cartridge belt. His manner asked with a certain defiance, what she was going to do about it, or to think.
FORE:Ho-ho-ha-ha! All the t-time, we were like mice racing around a treadmill. Dick had to speak between chuckles. All the time we ran around in circles so fast we didnt see the end of the cage. Sussuspicious Sandy! Thinking we would be trapped and held for ransom! Ho, golly-me! Look around you, Sandy!Having heard their own engine, the pilot of the seaplane had decided to risk a dash out of the fog and to try to escape.
[Pg 200]In the swamp where the seaplane crashed! shouted Sandy, complimenting Dick with a sound smack on his back.With others of the new group of servants they took the craft to its place.What did the pilot say?