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He shook it off lightly, saying, "Pardonnez moi, ma chère; I've no come to trouble you." Then turning to Ashmore he said, pointing to Carrie, "She be your wife, I take it?" "Yes, sir," replied Ashmore haughtily. "Have you any objections? If so they have come too late." "Not von, not in the least, no sar," said the Frenchman, bowing nearly to the floor.
"Well, sar, then I meant to say that this particular part of a sucking fish, properly dried in the northeast wind, is a wonderful mascot when you're going after treasure." Tom looked frightened again, as though he had gone too far. "Who said I was going after treasure?" I asked. "Aren't you, sah?" replied Tom, "asking your pardon?"
"Sar!" exclaimed Dan, opening his eyes. "Why, if David doesn't come here himself and tell me to give you the things, he must send a written order." "Dave, he done told me to git 'em," faltered Dan. "I don't doubt it; but in order to have things straight, you go home and get an order for such things as you want and I'll give them to you."
Instead of passing through the office, Kirk mounted to the porch of the Tivoli and entered his room from the outside, as he and Chiquita had done earlier that evening. He found Allan waiting, and bursting with a desire to gossip, but cut him short. "Get my street-clothes, I'm going out." He tore the white tie from his throat as if it were choking him. "It is too late, sar.
Coiled up in a corner on the deck was a bundle of something which stirred as they came near to it, and began to turn over, making the stranger start with a slight exclamation. "Doan you be skeert, sar," the boy said, "dat's nottin' but Mandy Ann, an onery nigger what b'longs to ole Miss Harris in de clarin' up ter Ent'prise.
We all know what that is, Billy, and shall be glad to get it too, by-and-bye." "Yes, sar; but there are two kind of commission. One you want, obliged to wait for; one I want, always have at once, commission as agent, sar." "Oh, I understand," replied Bruce; "five per cent on the bottle, eh?" "Five per cent not make a tiff glass of grog, Massa Bruce."
"Twelve miles long, sar. Two miles wide." "Well, that is not a great deal to search, if we have to examine every inch of the coast. How many people are there?" "Two, three hundred white men. Dey live in de town most all. Two, three thousand blacks." "Well, we will begin with the others. I should think that in a fortnight we ought to be able to do them all."
"I believe it's them black parrots has told them," said old Tom, pointing to a bird common in the islands something like a small crow with a parrot's beak. "They're very knowing birds." I saw that Tom was serious. So I tried to draw him out. "What language do they speak, Tom?" I asked. "Them, sar? They speak Egyptian," he answered, with perfect solemnity. "Egyptian!" "Yes, sar," said Tom.
Here Sailor stopped and whined, pawing the earth, and, at the same time, I heard a moaning underneath. "Is that you, Tom?" I called. Thank God, the old chap was not dead at all events. "Thank the Lord, it's you, sar," he cried. "I'm all right, but I've had a bad fall and I can't seem able to move." "Hold on and keep up your heart I'll be with you in a minute," I called down to him.
"Oh, yes, sar; dere's plenty of dem at Plymouth, moster." "I am as well aware of that fact as you are," interrupted the captain. "What I want particularly to know is if there are any cavalry scouting around who would be likely to pick up the men I shall probably send ashore to-night." "Not now, dey aint, sar; but a while ago dey was piles of dem.
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