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But on this side there was no cannon; scarcely a score of men were guarding the rear of the temple. For a full minute he stood concealed in the gloom. He realized now that it would be useless to return to Obadiah. The old councilor could probably have told him all that he had discovered for himself; that Marion had gone to the castle that Strang intended to make her his bride that night.
In the mean time Captain Obadiah had become so accustomed to the presence of his guest that he made no pretence of any concealment of that iniquitous, dreadful avocation that lent to Pig and Sow Point so great a terror in those parts. Rather did the West Indian appear to court the open observation of his dependant.
"How far off?" demanded Mr Vanslyperken. "About two miles." "Pulling or sailing?" "Pulling, sir; we stand right for them." But Mr Vanslyperken was in no pleasant humour, and ordered the cutter to be hove-to. "I tink de men have pull enough all night," said Jansen, who had just been relieved at the wheel, to Obadiah Coble, who was standing by him on the forecastle.
"That is MacDougall with the lash official whipper and caretaker of the slave hounds," explained Obadiah in a whisper. Nathaniel gave a start of horror. "Slave hounds!" he breathed. The councilor grinned and twisted his hands, in enjoyment of his companion's surprise. "We have the finest pack of bloodhounds north of Louisiana," he continued, so low that only Nathaniel could hear. "See!
He saw the pistol in Nathaniel's hand and gave a sudden breathless cry. "Nat Nat " He caught Captain Plum's free hand in his. "Tell me this, Obadiah Price," whispered the master of the Typhoon, "who is she?" The councilor stood on tiptoe to answer. "They are the six wives of Strang, Nat!" "But the other?" demanded Nathaniel. "The other " "O, to be sure, to be sure," chuckled Obadiah.
He settled at Fishkill-on-the-Hudson; and his son Obadiah whom tradition declares to have been the fourth white man child born in what is now Dutchess County was the great-grandfather of Peter Cooper. In 1720 an Obadiah of the next generation followed, and of his son John, born in 1755, Peter Cooper was the fifth child. John Cooper came of age in the year of the Declaration of Independence.
Obadiah very considerately lent a deaf ear to my repeated entreaties, pretending to be intently occupied with his own plate of fish; then, transferring the remains of the salmon-trout to his own place, he turned round to me with the most innocent face imaginable, saying very coolly, "I beg your pardon, friend, did you speak to me? There is such a noise at the table, I cannot hear very well."
It is probable therefore that the Périn volume was not then known to the general public. The anonymous book just mentioned was translated into English. Some of the phraseology of the Perin book, and many of its ideas, appear in a work of Obadiah Walker, Master of University College, Oxford, on Education, but it is not mentioned.
Obadiah said that he knew "Misser Nowlin fust rate," that he had worked for him and that he had more work for him to do and he must go over. Other men, who knew me, reasoned the case with them, and they finally concluded it was a false alarm, closed the carriage door and we were permitted to drive on to the ferry.
He thinks a good deal of you, Obadiah does. I s'pose he'll be wanting you to keep house for him when you get a little older," and he looked cheerily up at her. But evidently his little jest had struck her mind amiss. Her eyes were full of tears and the childish mouth quivered. "Why what's the matter Prudy?" he asked in surprise.
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