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'Have patience, my good friend; I'll convince you our interests are just the same. Hatteraick gave a short dry cough, and Glossin, after a pause, proceeded. 'How came you to let the boy escape? 'Why, fluch and blitzen! he was no charge of mine.
Great was his surprise, and even horror, to observe Glossin's body lying doubled across the iron bar, in a posture that excluded all idea of his being alive. Hatteraick was quietly stretched upon his pallet within a yard of his victim. On lifting Glossin it was found he had been dead for some hours. His body bore uncommon marks of violence.
When he had left the room the Justice took two short turns through the apartment, then drew his chair opposite to the prisoner, so as to confront him fully, placed the pistols before him in readiness, and said in a steady voice, 'You are Dirk Hatteraick of Flushing, are you not? The prisoner turned his eye instinctively to the door, as if he apprehended some one was listening.
'Of the boy? said Glossin, eagerly. 'Yaw, Mynheer, replied the Captain, coolly. 'He does not live, does he? 'As lifelich as you or I, said Hatteraick. 'Good God! But in India? exclaimed Glossin. 'No, tousand deyvils, here! on this dirty coast of yours, rejoined the prisoner.
I am sure ye were not obliged to ken ony thing about it; and what the waur was the King that the lairds here got a soup o' drink and the ladies their drap o' tea at a reasonable rate? it's a shame to them to pit such taxes on them! and was na I much the better of these Flanders head and pinners that Dirk Hatteraick sent me a' the way from Antwerp?
But it was not with such reflections that the mind of this bad man was occupied. His eye was upon the gigantic and gloomy outlines of the old castle, where, in a flanking tower of enormous size and thickness, glimmered two lights, one from the window of the strong room, where Hatteraick was confined, the other from that of the adjacent apartment, occupied by his keepers.
He came upon them with some idea of mediation, but found them in the midst of their guilty terrors, while the rage, which had hurried them on to murder, began, with all but Hatteraick, to sink into remorse and fear. Glossin was then indigent and greatly in debt, but he was already possessed of Mr.
They stated that she distinctly, positively, and repeatedly declared herself an eye-witness of Kennedy's death by the hands of Hatteraick and two or three of his crew; that her presence was accidental; that she believed their resentment at meeting him, when they were in the act of losing their vessel through the means of his information, led to the commission of the crime; that she said there was one witness of the murder, but who refused to participate in it, still alive her nephew, Gabriel Faa; and she had hinted at another person who was an accessory after, not before, the fact; but her strength there failed her.
'But, Hatteraick, this, that is, if it be true, which I do not believe, this will ruin us both, for he cannot but remember your neat job; and for me, it will be productive of the worst consequences! It will ruin us both, I tell you. 'I tell you, said the seaman, 'it will ruin none but you; for I am done up already, and if I must strap for it, all shall out.
'Ay, ay, said the Laird, who had sought Mannering for some time, and now joined him, 'there they go there go the free-traders there go Captain Dirk Hatteraick and the Yungfrauw Hagenslaapen, half Manks, half Dutchman, half devil! run out the boltsprit, up mainsail, top and top-gallant sails, royals, and skyscrapers, and away follow who can! That fellow, Mr.
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