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About this time Dave, who had taken care to keep in the front of the table as he had been ordered to do, seized upon his feather duster, and began to dust the divan on the starboard side of the cabin. Flanger was so much occupied with the commander at that moment, that he was not disposed to take his eye off him for an instant; for certainly the situation had become critical, and 277 he paid no attention to the steward. Dave was a sort of a feather-duster fiend, and he used the article a great deal of his time, apparently as much from habit as from cleanliness.
allslot918 He related the incidents which had occurred at Bonnydale, the loss of his commission and orders, 131 and the decision of Captain Battleton against him, concluding with the statement that he was then a prisoner of war, but had made his escape from the place where he had been required to remain. "If I had seen you and Corny together, I should have known which was which," pleaded Mr. Flint. "Who are the other prisoners?" demanded Corny, as though he had a right to know. "Thank you; I will have one of those lamb's tongues," replied Christy. "Then I was very fortunate in capturing her," added Christy with a smile.