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"What do you say, Mr Grenvile?" demanded Carter, appealing to me. "Shall we let them have what they ask for?" "Certainly," I said, "seeing that at present we are not in a position to refuse them and make good our refusal.
He placed the telescope to his eye, adjusted it to his focus, and looked through it long and intently. "Just as I thought, Mr Grenvile," he said, handing back the instrument. "If you'll take another squint, sir, you'll see that they're getting up tackles on their yard-arms.
"This coat, for instance," said I, holding it up, "will clean very well, I should think, but the waistcoat and trousers well, I'm afraid you will need new ones, for these seem to be past repairing." "You misunderstand me, Grenvile," he said. "But never mind, we'll not talk about that just now; I have other and more important matters that I wish to speak about.
"Is that Mr Grenvile that stands beside you, sir?" asked a voice which I now recognised, despite the speaking-trumpet, as that of Captain Bentinck himself. "Yes, sir," replied I for myself; "and I have nine men with me, the survivors of the prize crew of the Dolores." I saw the skipper turn to Mr Seaton, who stood beside him, and say something, to which the other replied.
Then, looking round the deck of the brigantine, I noticed Freeman, the acting master of the Dona Inez, away aft, with his coat off, and one of his own men binding up the wounded arm of the officer. I hastened aft. "Not seriously hurt, Freeman, I hope?" said I. "Hullo, Grenvile, that you?" he returned. "No, thanks; rather painful, but not very serious, I hope.
"What is your name, young man?" was the next question, for as yet he had only read the dispatch, leaving the covering letter and other documents for perusal at his leisure. "Very well, Mr Grenvile good name that, by the by excellent name name to be lived up to," he remarked when I had answered him. "Come and dine with me at the Pen to-night. I should like to have a little further talk with you.
The king, after the rout of the Parliament forces in the west, was marched back, took Barnstaple, Plympton, Launceston, Tiverton, and several other places, and left Plymouth besieged by Sir Richard Grenvile, met with Sir William Waller at Shaftesbury, and again at Andover, and boxed him at both places, and marched for Newbury.
Then the general, wiping the perspiration from his face, turned to me and said: "Grenvile, my friend, this is a situation for you to grapple with, and a very difficult situation it is, I confess.
"Very extraordinary," commented I, stifling a prodigious yawn. "And now, Mr Carter, with your kind permission I will go below and lie down, for I feel pretty well tired out." "Ay, that I'll be bound you do," agreed Carter. "This way, Mr Grenvile, and look out for the coamin' it's a bit extra high." And, so saying, he led the way into a very handsome saloon under the ship's full poop.
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