[A Maid of the Silver Sea by John Oxenham]@TWC D-Link bookA Maid of the Silver Sea CHAPTER XXIII 6/13
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.
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