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"Phips is a great man a great man!" he said, chuckling. "Ah, the treasure!" Jessica did not reply. Her fingers went up to her eyes; they seemed to cool the hot lids. "Ay, ay, it was good," he added, in a quavering voice, "and I gave you your dowry!" Now there was a gentle, soft laugh of delight and pride, and he reached out a hand towards her.
As it was, Phips had to work the thing out according to his own lights. One afternoon, when Gering was away with the canoes on the long search, the crisis came. It was a day when life seemed to stand still; a creamy haze ingrained with delicate blue had settled on land and sea; the long white rollers slowly travelled over the Boilers, and the sea rocked like a great cradle.
The surgeon, however, would not permit Bucklaw to be removed until he had been cared for, and so Phips and Gering went on deck and made preparations for the treasure- hunt. A canoe was hollowed out by a dozen men in a few hours, the tender was got ready, the men and divers told off, and Gering took command of the searching-party, while Phips remained on the ship.
"How know you that?" "I have ears. You have promised to go with Phips. Isn't that so?" "What then?" "I will go with you." "Booty?" "No, revenge." "On whom?" "The man you hate Iberville." Gering's face darkens. "We are not likely to meet." "Pardon! very likely. Six months ago he was coming back from France. He will find you. I know the race." A sneer is on Gering's face.
The delegates met in May or the last of April, at New York, and decided to conquer Canada by a two-headed campaign; one army to go by way of Lake Champlain to Montreal, while a fleet should proceed against Quebec. Sir William Phips of Massachusetts was off to Port Royal within four weeks, and took it without an effort, there being hardly any one to defend it.
It was impossible to advance; and Winthrop, the commander, gave orders to return to Albany, leaving Phips to conquer Canada alone. But first, that the campaign might not seem wholly futile, he permitted Captain John Schuyler to make a raid into Canada with a band of volunteers.
While it was destroying the lives of men and women, of respectable position in the community, of unblemished and eminent Christian standing, heads of families, aged men and venerable matrons, all the ordinary securities of society, outside of the tribunal, were swept away. In the absence of Sir William Phips, the Chief-justice absolutely absorbed into his own person the whole Government.
He had proved himself a brave man, and, what was much in her father's sight, he was to have his share of Phips's booty. And what was still more, Gering had prevailed upon Phips to allow Mr. Leveret's investment in the first expedition to receive a dividend from the second. Therefore she was ready to fulfil her promise. Yet had she misgivings?
"Captain Phips," he said angrily, "you know who this man is?" "He is the guide to our treasure-house, Mr. Gering." "His name is Bucklaw a mutineer condemned to death, the villain who tried to kidnap Mistress Leveret." It was Bucklaw that replied. "Right right you are, Mr. Gering. I'm Bucklaw, mutineer, or what else you please. But that's ancient ancient. I'm sinner no more.
He then proceeds to compliment Sir William Phips, alluding to his "continually venturing his all," that is, in looking after affairs and fighting Indians in the eastern parts; to applaud Stoughton as "admirably accomplished" for his place; and continues as follows: "Our Councellours are some of our most eminent persons, and as loyal to the Crown, as hearty lovers of their country.
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