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"What does that mean?" he asked, passing it to Herrick. "Treachery?" "O, I suppose so!" said Herrick. "Well, tell him to come on," said Attwater. "One isn't a fatalist for nothing. Tell him to come on and to look out." Herrick returned to the figure-head. Half-way down the pier the clerk was waiting, with Davis by his side. "You are to come along, Huish," said Herrick.
How he would regret it, if he knew you had been here!" said Attwater. "'E's on the Trinity 'All, ain't he?" asked Huish. "And if you could tell me where the Trinity 'All was, you would confer a favour, Mr. Whish!" was the reply. "I suppose she has a native crew?" said Davis. "Since the secret has been kept ten years, one would suppose she had," replied Attwater. "Well, now, see 'ere!" said Huish.
He heard again the clear note of Attwater's bell ringing abroad into the night, and dying away. How if God...? Briskly he averted his mind. Attwater: that was the point. Attwater had food and a treasure of pearls; escape made possible in the present, riches in the future. They must come to grips with Attwater; the man must die.
But 'ow about a flag of truce? Would that do the trick, d'ye think? or would Attwater simply blyze aw'y at us in the bloomin' boat like dawgs?" "No," said Davis, "I don't believe he would." "No more do I," said Huish; "I don't believe he would either; and I'm sure I 'ope he won't! So then you can call us ashore. Next point is to get near the managin' direction.
'If you're not going to tell, you're not going to tell, and there's an end to it. 'There can be no reason why I should affect the least degree of secrecy about my island, returned Attwater; 'that came wholly to an end with your arrival; and I am sure, at any rate, that gentlemen like you and Mr Whish, I should have always been charmed to make perfectly at home.
Slowly he turned and faced Attwater and the muzzle of a pointed rifle. "Why could I not do that last night?" he thought. "Well, why don't you fire?" he said aloud, in a voice that trembled. Attwater slowly put his gun under his arm, then his hands in his pockets. "What brings you here?" he repeated. "I don't know," said Herrick; and then, with a cry: "Can you do anything with me?"
Whish," said Attwater; "that is why the house is empty and the graveyard full." "Twenty-nine out of thirty-three!" exclaimed Herrick. "Why, when it came to burying or did you bother burying?" "Scarcely," said Attwater; "or there was one day at least when we gave up. There were five of the dead that morning, and thirteen of the dying, and no one able to go about except the sexton and myself.
"Well, it is a dreadful sickness," said Attwater. "'Ad you any deaths?" asked Huish, "'ere on the island?" "Twenty-nine," said Attwater. "Twenty-nine deaths and thirty-one cases, out of thirty-three souls upon the island. That's a strange way to calculate, Mr. Hay, is it not? Souls! I never say it but it startles me." "O, so that's why everything's deserted?" said Huish. "That is why, Mr.
'And then? said the breathless captain. 'Shot, said Attwater. 'They came to ground together. Herrick sprang to his feet with a shriek and an insensate gesture. 'It was a murder, he screamed. 'A cold-hearted, bloody-minded murder! You monstrous being! Murderer and hypocrite murderer and hypocrite murderer and hypocrite he repeated, and his tongue stumbled among the words.
He saw the parlour, with red curtains, and shells on the mantelpiece and, with the fine inconsistency of visions, mixed a grog at the mahogany table ere he turned in. He began to walk again. He aspired after the realisation of these dreams, like a horse nickering for water; the lust of them burned in his inside. And the only obstacle was Attwater, who had insulted him from the first.
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