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At the desk in the corner one officer was jotting down notes as to the clearance papers and the cargo; while at a table in the foreground sat his comrade, in a lieutenant's uniform, with the captain of the Re d'Italia at his right, swart-faced and silent, and the list of the passengers lying before the pair.
A short distance beyond the camp was gathered a confused group of officers, troopers, men in citizen's dress, some of whom were swart-faced Mexicans, and horses. To this Rollo led the way; and, as the new-comers drew near they saw that for a moment all eyes were directed towards a man engaged in a fierce struggle with a horse.
We're in the same number class." "Ye gods! Long yellow curls on a swart-faced black-eyed Russian." Bob Strahan laughed at the combination. Miss Carter looked at him reproachfully as she swung the conversation to the safe subject of Mrs. Bracken's niece. "I wonder what Mr. Wells will have to say about her?" she asked. "He can't steal her canary for she hasn't one," muttered Bob Strahan.
"I have that privilege, sir," replied a swart-faced lieutenant. "Then kindly inform your friends that at the first sign of any monkey trick I'll send you all to kingdom come." The officer complied presumably with this command, and when he had finished, addressed Maclean: "You cannot intend to maroon us, sir?" he cried. "The island yonder is totally uninhabited." "You're a liar!" retorted Maclean.
At one table the young Italian entertained his relatives, and at another the captain, a short, swart-faced, taciturn being, had grouped his officers and various officials of the steamship company at a farewell feast. The little sharp-faced passenger was throned elsewhere in lonely splendor, but when I selected a fourth table, he jumped up, crossed over and installed himself as my vis-a-vis.
A gangling young man, swart-faced, fired by the contending crosses of alcoholic concoctions which he had swallowed, approached Morgan where he leaned against the bar. This fellow straddled as if he had a horse between his legs, and he was dusty and road-rough, but newly shaved and clipped, and perfumed with all the strong scents of the barber's stock. "Good evenin', bud.
But Chinamen to Trotty were fearsome bogies, corresponding to the swart-faced, white-eyed chimney-sweeps of the English nursery. She hid behind her aunt, holding fast to the latter's skirts, and only stealing an occasional peep from one saucer-like blue eye. "Thank you, John. Me takee chowchow for lilly missee," said Polly, who had experience in disposing of such savoury morsels.
Luckily, he did not single me out among the bystanders, being fresh come from the night without to the glare of candle-light within; and while the swart-faced colonel plied him with questions I had a chance to look him up and down. Though his arm was still in its sling, he was seemingly the better of his wound.
With that the artist left the vault, and returned after a few minutes' interval. Here, also, we pause, that the narrative may commence in another chapter. THE artist commenced his narrative in the following terms: "I was bred a blacksmith, and knew my art as well as e'er a black-thumbed, leathern-aproned, swart-faced knave of that noble mystery.
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