It was she
and Peter stirred up the men against you. All day yesterday the whole
Island was out looking for you, dead or alive, and very much puzzled as
to what had become of you. And Julie's got a suspicion that we know.
They searched the house for you in spite of mother and Grannie, but they
won't forget Grannie in a hurry, and I don't think they'll come back,"
and he laughed at the recollection of it.
"What did Grannie do?"
"She just looked at them from under that big black sun-bonnet, and
muttered things no one heard. But her eyes were like points of burning
sticks, and they all crept out one after another, afraid of they didn't
know what. But Julie's been on the watch all day, and would hardly let
us out of her sight. But she couldn't watch us both when we were not
together. So Nance got a bundle of things ready for you, and then went
out with another bundle and Julie followed her, and I slipped off here."
"Bernel, I don't know how to thank you all! What should I have done
without you?"
"You'd have been dead, most likely. It's not that they cared much for
Tom, you know, but they don't like the idea of a Sark man being killed
by a foreigner and no one paying for it.
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