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For, Brice's left shoulder jutted out in such manner as to keep the arms from getting their former hold around the body itself, and Brice's right elbow held off the grip on the other side. At the same time the top of Brice's head buried itself under the beachcomber's chin, forcing the giant's jaw upward and backward.
But his every sense was on the strain, as he listened to a sudden rush down past the saloon door, expectant of shot after shot from the beachcomber's revolver. But no shot was fired, though a revolver was fast clenched in the old ruffian's hand.
Under a spattering fire from the beachcomber's drunken companions we pulled out into deeper water and safety, and then, shipping my oar, I sprang to Te Manu's aid. The bullet had struck him in the back of the right hand and literally cut off three of the poor fellow's knuckles.
"Three double guns, three revolvers, and a box o' cartridges." "Oh!" whispered Carey, excitedly. "Where are they?" "Rolled up in what's left o' the mains'l, and I folded it up and twisted a rope round it. Yonder it is, amidships." "Hi! You! Come along here," came in the beachcomber's harsh voice, and Carey had to hurry to him.
There, I don't want to starve you; get below and have your supper along with your mate. I've half done mine." They went into the saloon, to find the doctor waiting for them with some food ready at one end of the table, while at the other the beachcomber's stood, consisting of a ship's biscuit and about half of the bottle of rum, which he had taken possession of before they came back.
Send money, plenty of it, and come on. I am 'on the beachcomber's lay, now, down at the Jersey Arms, Rozel Pier. Write or telegraph me a line, and I'll instantly meet you at Granville, at the Cor d'Abondance." A loving letter from Justine Delande inclosed a notice of a registered letter waiting at the Agence du Credit Lyonnais, Geneva.
But Carey's greatest treats were upon the hunting expeditions made by the beachcomber's blacks ashore to obtain fresh meat in the way of a delicacy or two for their chief and something substantial for themselves.
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