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"Do," said I; "and depend on it your dread of the little Frenchman will completely and for ever vanish." I parted from O'Carroll as honest a man as ever broke a biscuit with the sincere hope that we should meet again. The crews of our respective ships gave three hearty cheers as we separated on our respective courses.
I asked O'Carroll, who was very ready to come, and William brought a friend, whom he introduced as "My messmate, Toby Trundle." His name was a curious one at first I did not suppose that it was anything but a nickname and he himself was one of the oddest little fellows I ever met.
"No, no, the headmost craft is the Mignonne, and the big one is an Indiaman, her prize, depend on that," said O'Carroll. There seemed every probability that he was right, but this did not increase our satisfaction. The only thing that could be said was that we should now have companions in our misfortune.
O'Carroll took a more steady glance at the other ship, and then shouted, with no less delight, "And that's the Mignonne, and La Roche's day has come at last." "I should hope so, indeed," cried Trundle; "depend on it the Phoebe won't have done with him till she has made him eat a big dish of humble pie."
I fancy that they thought themselves overboard; right under the water they dragged each other, once more to get their heads out, spluttering and shouting, and swearing most fearfully. At last, fearing that they might after all be drowned, I seized the mate, who was the smaller man of the two, and dragged him on deck, calling out to O'Carroll to assist in getting up the captain.
William and Trundle looked at her with lack-lustre eyes. I asked Kelson what he thought she was. "A small Chinaman, or a store-ship, maybe, sir," he answered. "She's English, certainly, by the cut of her sails." "You hear what he says," I observed to O'Carroll. "I think the same myself. We shall be treated as friends when we get on board."
Some proposed that we should go at once and deliver ourselves up to the French, petitioning for their clemency. O'Carroll strongly opposed this. "We are at liberty now, boys: if we once get into the hands of these French they will be our masters, and make us do what they like," he observed; and his influence, supported as he was by us, carried the point.
That is, because the devil is come among us, and finds it for his interest to destroy all our perceptions of the distinctions of right and wrong. I do not precisely enter into your meaning, Mr Flosky, and should be glad if you would make it a little more plain to me. One or two examples will do it, Miss O'Carroll.
To satisfy ourselves we examined the stranger as narrowly as we could, and O'Carroll was thoroughly convinced that he was right in his suspicions. While thus employed a man appeared at the companion watch. "Why, there is La Roche himself!" he cried out. Scarcely had he spoken than a bullet whizzed by his head. "That settles the matter," he said, quite coolly.
The non-combatants suffer more even than the combatants. That is to say, a far greater number of people suffer who have nothing to do with the fighting than those who actually carry on the murderous work. Oh, when will war cease throughout the world?" "Not until the depraved heart of man is changed, and Satan himself is chained, unable further to hurt the human race," answered O'Carroll.
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