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Then the sound widened, faint, unbroken, until it met Temptation riding towards the padre from the south, and cheered the steps of Temptation's jaded horse. "For a day, one single day of Paris!" repeated the padre, gazing through his cloisters at the empty sea. Once in the year the mother-world remembered him. Once in the year a barkentine came sailing with news and tokens from Spain.
"Yes; WASN'T that a barkentine?" he answered innocently. "Barkentine your EYE!" spluttered the Captain. "Why, that was a schooner as plain as a pie plate." But ten minutes later the ordeal was over, and Blix and Condy, once more breathing easily, were on their walk again.
Sitting in his garden yesterday, he could never have imagined such a change. But his heart did not hail the barkentine as usual. Young Gaston showed more eagerness than the Padre over this arrival of the vessel that might be bringing Trovatore in the nick of time. Now he would have the chance, before he took his leave, to help rehearse the new music with the choir.
Temptation had arrived with Gaston, but was going to make a longer stay at Santa Ysabel del Mar. Yet it was something like a week before the priest knew what guest he had in his house now. The guest was not always present made himself scarce quite often. Sail away on the barkentine? That was a wild notion, to be sure, although fit enough to enter the brain of such a young scapegrace.
Murphy, sighting him a block in the offing, knew the skipper of the barkentine Retriever for a broken man! Beyond doubt he had shipped a full cargo of grief. "Well?" he queried as Matt hove alongside. "Did you find out?" Matt nodded gloomily. "Who?" Mr. Murphy demanded peremptorily. "Cappy Ricks!" Matt almost wailed. "NO!" Mr. Murphy roared. "Yes!
The typical New England ship for the slave trade was a sloop, schooner or barkentine of about fifty tons burthen, which when engaged in ordinary freighting would have but a single deck. For a slaving voyage a second flooring was laid some three feet below the regular deck, the space between forming the slave quarters.
When his vessel had arrived at a point opposite Black Point he heard the sunset gun, and immediately afterwards strange particles began to fall upon the barkentine, which was exactly in the vertical plane of the gun's range. He had sailed many waters and had seen many kinds of showers, but this was different from all others.
Temptation had arrived with Gaston, but was destined to make a longer stay at Santa Ysabel del Mar. Yet it was perhaps a week before the priest knew this guest was come to abide with him. The guest could be discreet, could withdraw, was not at first importunate. Sail away on the barkentine? A wild notion, to be sure! although fit enough to enter the brain of such a young scape-grace.
Skinner rang for the girl and retired in high dudgeon, while Cappy Ricks smote his corrugated brow and brought forth the following: Captain Matthew Peasley, Master Barkentine Retriever, Hall's Dry Dock, Eagle Harbor, Wash. "Yes; that was a grave oversight sending you to Antofagasta without docking you first. Express my appreciation of Murphy's forethought in killing some of the worms.
He stopped and pressed his hands together; he had caught his Temptation in the very act. Now he sat staring at his Temptation's face, close to him, while then in the triangle two ships went sailing by. One morning Felipe told him that the barkentine was here on its return voyage south. "Indeed." said the Padre, coldly. "The things are ready to go, I think."
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