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Obedience is my duty; and for the rest the Church must decide, according to her infallible authority for I am a good Catholic, senor, the best of Catholics, though a great sinner. I trust no one has overheard us!" Amyas left him with a smile of pity, and went to look for Lucy Passmore, whom the sailors were nursing and feeding, while Ayacanora watched them with a puzzled face.
He looked up and round; the birds had ceased to chirp; the parroquets were hiding behind the leaves; the monkeys were clustered motionless upon the highest twigs; only out of the far depths of the forest, the campanero gave its solemn toll, once, twice, thrice, like a great death-knell rolling down from far cathedral towers. Was it an omen? He looked up hastily at Ayacanora.
"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.
The argument was unanswerable; and the next day they started without the Indians, while John Brimblecombe heaved many an honest sigh at leaving them to darkness, the devil, and the holy trumpet. And Ayacanora? When their departure was determined, she shut herself up in her hut, and appeared no more.
He put out his hand, and took them, and felt them over, and played with them, just as if the twenty years had never been: and as he fingered them, the whole of his past life rose up before him, as in that strange dream which is said to flash across the imagination of a drowning man; and he saw all the places which he had ever seen, and heard all the words which had ever been spoken to him till he came to that fairy island on the Meta; and he heard the roar of the cataract once more, and saw the green tops of the palm-trees sleeping in the sunlight far above the spray, and stept amid the smooth palm-trunks across the flower-fringed boulders, and leaped down to the gravel beach beside the pool: and then again rose from the fern-grown rocks the beautiful vision of Ayacanora Where was she?
And so Ayacanora took up her abode in Lucy's cabin, as a regularly accredited member of the crew.
After which, Ayacanora went to Amyas, and telling him all, proposed that the Piache should be thrown to the alligators, and Jack installed in his place; declaring that whatsoever the bearded men said must be true, and whosoever plotted against them should die the death. Jack, however, magnanimously forgave his foe, and preached on, of course with fresh zeal; but not, alas! with much success.
Ayacanora only, pleased with Amyas's commendation, went humming on to herself "And heave, my mariners all, O!" Yeo started up from the gun where he sat. "I can't abear it! As I live, I can't! You, Indian maiden, where did you learn to sing that there?"
"A man in a novel, and Amyas Leigh is a man in another novel," whispered Miss Opdyke. "Mrs. She has forgotten, and fancies that he really lived in Queen Elizabeth's time; and the coachman was so solemnly sure that he did that it's not much wonder. I bought an old silver patch-box in a jeweller's shop on the High Street, and I'm going to tell my sister that it belonged to Ayacanora."
Ayacanora looked up at him, half frightened by his vehemence, then at Amyas, to see if she had been doing anything wrong; and then turned saucily away, looked over the side, and hummed on. "Ask her, for mercy's sake ask her, Captain Leigh!" "My child," said Amyas, speaking in Indian, "how is it you sing that so much better than any other English? Did you ever hear it before?"
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