And Bonnie May put one on him.
Then she happened to look at one of the window-shades. “Earrings!” she exclaimed. “They used to look so delightfully wicked!”
With Clifton’s aid she removed several brass rings from the window-shades.
“I won’t need them,” said Clifton. “You know I was the captain.”
So the rings were hung in Jack’s ears and Thomason’s.
“Splendid!” cried Bonnie May. She inspected the result critically. “If we only had— Thomason, is there any blacking?”
Thomason found a box of blacking in Baron’s room.
She dipped her finger into it and drew a series of sinister lines across Jack’s unlined face.
Clifton proffered a criticism. “You’re putting on too much. He’s to be a sailor—not a pirate.”
“No, only a sailor. But he ought to look a little frightful.” She stood back in admiration of her work.