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Have you life-preservers in your room?" I asked, quickly, of Mr. Chipperton. "All right," said he, "we have them on. Keep all together and come on deck, and remember to be perfectly cool." He went ahead with Mrs. Chipperton, and Rectus and I followed, one on each side of Corny.
He is at present an escaped prisoner, the law has an awkward claim upon him; he must be placed rectus in curia, that is the first object; for which purpose, Colonel, I will accompany you in your carriage down to Hazlewood House. The distance is not great; we will offer our bail, and I am confident I can easily show Mr. I beg his pardon Sir Robert Hazlewood, the necessity of receiving it.
Pretty soon I went over to look at it, for I must admit I was rather curious to see what he had put on it. This was the inscription he had printed on the lid: "GIVEN TO WILL AND RECTUS BY CORNY. ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA." There was a place left for the date, which I suppose he had forgotten.
Corny and Rectus were looking over the "permission paper" which the English governor had given us. "I guess this isn't any more use, now," said Corny, "as we've done all we can for kings and queens, but Rectus says that if you agree I can have it for my autograph book. I never had a governor's signature." "Certainly, you can have it," I said. "And he's a different governor from the common run.
We agreed to be very faithful, and, if Corny had tumbled overboard, I am sure that Rectus and I would have jumped in after her; but I am happy to say that she did nothing of the kind on this trip. Early the next morning, we reached Nassau, the largest town in the Bahamas, on one of the smallest islands, and found it semi-tropical enough to suit even Mr. Chipperton.
There was never a woman who knew just how to make boys have a good time, like my mother. I had been a long while on the steamer waiting for Rectus. She was to sail at three o'clock, and it was then after two. The day was clear and fine, but so much sitting and standing about had made me cold, so that I was very glad to see a carriage drive up with Rectus and his father and mother.
"Now, look here," I whispered to Rectus, "if you're captain, you've got to step up and do the talking. It isn't my place." The secretary now returned, and said the governor could give us a few minutes. I think the probability was that he was curious to know what two boys and a girl could want with him.
At the top of the flight of stairs are open fields and an old fort. Altogether, this was considered a quiet and suitable place for a meeting of a band of revolutionists. We could not have met in the silk-cotton tree, for we should have attracted too much attention, and, besides, the hotel-clerk would have routed us out. After supper, Rectus and I went to see the African governor, Goliah Brown.
I was sitting on the deck of a Savannah steam-ship, which was lying at a dock in the East River, New York. I was waiting for young Rectus, and had already waited some time; which surprised me, because Rectus was, as a general thing, a very prompt fellow, who seldom kept people waiting.
There was one man with us a red-faced, yellow-haired man with a curly beard, and little gold rings in his ears. He looked more like a sailor than any other of the men, and Rectus and I always put him down for the sailor who had been longer at sea, and knew more about ships and sailing, than any other of the crew.
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