[The Master of the Shell by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookThe Master of the Shell CHAPTER FOUR 16/21
You've no right on this floor; you know that.
If he chooses to let you be, he'll have to keep you in order.
I don't pity him in the room underneath." "I say, do you think he could hear us easily--when we were playing ?" "Oh, no, not at all," said the captain, laughing. "Really! I say, Ainger, perhaps we'd better have a study up-stairs, after all." "Thanks; not if I know it.
You might pitch over my head instead of his. I suppose, too, he's allowed you to set up that dog ?" "Yes; it's a present from Dig's mother.
I say, he's not a bad-looking beast, is he ?" "Who? Dig? Not so very," said the captain, quite relieved to be able to wash his hands of this precious couple. He departed, leaving the two worthies in a state of bewildered jubilation. "What a splendid lark!" exclaimed Arthur.
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