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Captain Luke Settle blink'd his eyes at this: but nodded after a moment. "And how many would escort her?" He caught my drift and laughed softly "Be damn'd, sir, but I begin to love you, for you play the game very proper and soundly. Reuben, Jeremy, and Black Dick alone are in the plot; so why should more escort her? For the skipper and crew have their own business to look after."
With a face grey as ashes he turn'd very slowly, until in the unnatural light we look'd straight into each other's eyes. His never blink'd, but stared stared horribly, while the veins swell'd black on his forehead and his lips work'd, attempting speech. No words came only a long drawn sob, deep down in his throat.
I look'd at the Captain, who in the light of the lantern blink'd again. "Thou bloody villain!" muttered I, for now I read the tragedy of the wagon beside the road, and knew how Master Settle had provided a horse for his own escape.
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