The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-02-01
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flnulng sheltered secret corner, we
made very hasty breakfast Of these
stolen dainties, and since we had not
the heart to restore them TO our inn
keeper, so we had not the face to chide
Moll for her larceny, but made light Of
the business and ate with great content
and some mirth.
A drizzly rain falling and turning the
snow into slush, we kept under the shell
ter Of the shed, and this giving us scope
for the reflection Don Sanchez had coun-
seled my compunctions were greatly
shaken by the consideration of our pres
ent position and the prospect Of wdrse.
When thought Of our breakfast that
Moll had stolen, and how willingly we
would all have eaten dinner got by
the same means, i had TO acknowledge
that certainly we were all thieves at
heart, and this conclusion, together with
sitting all day doing nothing i'm the raw
cold, did make the design of Don San
chez seem much less heinous to me than
1t appeared the night before, when
was warm and not exceedingly sober,
and indeed toward dusk came to re-
gard it as no bad thing at all
About 0 comes back our don ON fine
horse and receives our salutations with
q cool nod--we standing there of row,
looking our sweetest, like hungry dogs
in expectation of bone Then in he
goes to the house without a word, and
now my worst fear was that he had
thought better of his offer and would
abandon il.
So there we hang about the best part
of an hour, now thinking the don would
presently send for us and then growing
20 despair of everything hut to be left
in the cold forgotten, but in the end
comes Master Landlord to tell us his
worship in the cherry room would see
us So, after the same formalities Of
cleansing ourselves as the night afore,
up stairs we go at the heels of drawer
carrying a roast pig, which to our senses
was more delightful than any bunch of
flowers.
With gesture of his hands, after
saluting us with great dignity, Don
Sanchez bade us take our places at the
table and with never word of ques-
tion as to our decision, but that was
tie observation to perceive that we would
accept any conditions TO get our share
of that roast pig. This supper differed
not greatly from the former, save that
our Moll was taken with a kind of tic
killing at the throat which presently at
tracted our notice.
"What ails you, Molly, my dear?"
asks jack. HAS u bit of cracking
gone down the wrong way?'
She put it off as If she would have us
take no notice Of it, but it grew worse
and worse toward the end Of the meal
and became most horrid, tearing
cough, which she did SO natural as to
deceive us all and put us in great con
Germ, and especially Don Sanchez, who
declared she must have taken a cold by
being exposed all day to the damp
weather.
'H have" says she very prettily.
after wiping the tears from her upon an
other fit, =" tbs surelya most ungrateful
return for the kindness with which you
sheltered me last night, senor."
II shall take better care to shelter
you in the future, my poor Child" re-
plies the don, ringing the bell Then,
the maid coming, he bids her warm q
bed and prepare hot posset against
Moll was tucked up in the blankets.
"And," says he, turning to Moll, "you
shall not rise till noon, my dear Your
breakfast shall be brought to you in
your room, where fire shall be made
and such treatment shown you as if yor
were my own child"
"Oh, what have l done that you
should be SO gentle to me?" exclaimi
Moll, smothering another cough. Ant
with that she reaches out her leg under
the table and fetches me kick of the
shin, looking all the while as pitiful
and innocent as any painted picture.
Would it be we'll to fetch in a doc
tor?" says Don Sanchez, when Moll was
gone barking up stairs 1.-THE child
looks delicate, though she eats with a
fairly good appetite.
'Tis nothing, you know" replies
Jack, who had doubtless received the
same hint from Moll she had given me.
"I warrant she will be mended in q