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While Edith waited impatiently in the hall of the flat, Anne Yeo, her unacknowledged rival in Hyacinth's affections, was doing needlework in the window-seat of the studio, and watching Hyacinth, who, dressed to go out, was walking up and down the room. With a rather wooden face, high cheek-bones, a tall, thin figure, and no expression, Anne might have been any age; but she was not.
And the old man wrung his hands, while Amyas, bursting with laughter, rode off down the park, with the unconscious Yeo at his stirrup, chatting away about the Indies, and delighting Amyas more and more by his shrewdness, high spirit, and rough eloquence.
I must see Cary; I must see Salterne; and I suppose, if I am ready to do my duty, I shall learn somehow what it is. Now to sleep; to-morrow up and away to what God sends." "Come in hither, men," shouted he down the passage, "and sleep here. Haven't you had enough of this villainous sour cider?" The men came in yawning, and settled themselves to sleep on the floor. "Where's Yeo?"
But the old man had his practical hint too, and entreated to be sent back to Plymouth to look for men. "There's many a man of the old Pelican, sir, and of Captain Hawkins's Minion that knows the Indies as well as I, and longs to be back again. So off went Yeo to Plymouth, and returned with Drew and a score of old never-strikes.
"What do you mind, then, beside those Indians?" added Yeo, in despair. She turned her back on him peevishly, as if tired with the efforts of her memory. "Do try to remember," said Amyas; and she set to work again at once. "Ayacanora mind great monkeys black, oh, so high," and she held up her hand above her head, and made a violent gesture of disgust. "Monkeys? what, with tails?" "No, like man.
Serve the men out a horn of ale all round, steward, and all take your time." Amyas, having, as he had said, the wind, and being able to go nearer it than the Spaniard, kept his place at easy point-blank range for his two eighteen-pounder culverins, which Yeo and his mate worked with terrible effect. "We are lacking her through and through every shot," said he.
I'll go nowhere, and do nothing without the advice of Salvation Yeo and Robert Drew; and if any man in the ship knows better than these two, let him up, and we'll give him a hearing. Eh, Pelicans?" There was a grunt of approbation from the Pelicans; and Amyas returned to the charge. "We have five shots between wind and water, and one somewhere below.
He shut the shabby door of the little house with a loud bang, and went out with a great longing to do something vaguely desperate. Lunch produced a different mood. He said to himself that he wouldn't think of Mrs Raymond any more, and went to call on Hyacinth. The servant told him she was out. He was just turning away when Anne Yeo came out. She glanced at him with malicious satisfaction.
There's no getting home again, that's plain." "Why were we brought out here to be killed?" "For shame, men!" cries Yeo; "you're no better than a set of stiff-necked Hebrew Jews, murmuring against Moses the very minute after the Lord has delivered you from the Egyptians."
Yeo would not allow his patient to talk much, so Cuthbert sat by the bedside holding the hand of the dying man. Caranby had been badly burnt about the temples, and the sight of one eye was completely gone. Occasionally Yeo gave him a reviving cordial which made him feel better. Towards evening Caranby expressed a wish to talk.
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