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CHAPTER XVI BILLY MEETS A DIVINITY,Billy's eyes opened wide. "Misjedged him?" he repeated.,On which Captain Weaver exclaimed: "The Minorca, of course. She was French, and what's called barque-rigged.","Jest the same as ever. There, teacher, it fair laughed right out at us then.",Jim nudged Maurice but Maurice shook his head. "You tell him," he said.,Something like a sigh escaped the man who listened to this edict. He took a lagging step or two forward.,"When the Stanhopes built their home on the farm, which was then mostly woods, old Scroggie behaved somethin' awful. He threatened to shoot Stanhope. But Stanhope only laughed an' went on with his cuttin' an' stump-pullin'. Scroggie used to swear he'd murder both of 'em, an' he was always sayin' that if he died his ghost would come back an' ha'nt the Stanhopes. Yes, he said that once in my own hearin'.,CHAPTER XIX CROAKER BRINGS A GIFT,But Croaker shook his head and backed away, emitting a string of unintelligible utterances.,Nevertheless he determined to await Captain Acton's arrival from the business which was holding him in his library; so he lighted his pipe afresh with his singular little pistol-shaped pipe-lighter and struck about the grounds with his staff, blowing great clouds out of the depth of his meditation, and often heaving a sailor's blessing at the two points of cliff which interrupted the view of the sea to east and west of the coast.,Billy drew in his breath hard. He fully intended that none of those straining ears should miss his answer. Suddenly it had come to him that it was an easy question to answer; there could in fact be but one answer to it.,"You saw it?" Maurice, who could not think of questioning his chum's word, gasped in amazement..