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Updated: May 17, 2025
I remained a week in the cabin, taming my seal, who now was quite fond of me; and one night, as I was going to bed, he crawled into my bed-place, and from that time he was my bedfellow. At the end of a week I went over to the other side of the island, and contrived to carry up the two skins to the summit. It was a hard day's work.
We returned to the cabin, and I prepared the fish for dinner. After it was on the embers, she wished to have the screen put up beside her bed-place. "Go down to the mate," said she, "and ask him for the hammer and three or four nails. I know they have them in the boat." "I may as well take them down some birds for their dinner," replied I, "for, they will want them."
In it she may rest as long in the morning as she likes without being disturbed by us when we go to our work," he observed. Marian thanked him warmly as he led her towards the little hut, in which he had formed a bed-place, and put up a table and a three-legged stool; which, though roughly made, showed his desire to attend to her comfort. The bed-place was covered thickly with dry grass.
"The lightning has burned out my eyes, and I can see nothing I cannot help myself I cannot walk about cannot do anything, and I suppose you will leave me here to die like a dog." "Can't you see me?" "No, all is dark, dark as night, and will be as long as I live." And he turned on his bed-place and groaned.
"Where are they?" said I, recollecting how I had seen him lift up the board under his bed-place. "I have them safe," replied Jackson, "and if necessary, will tell you where to find them." This reply satisfied me, and I allowed him to proceed. "We buried him in the guano, by the side of the two others, and now we were but three.
All was dark and quiet; I put my hand out, and I put it into the water where was I was I overboard? I jumped up in my fright; I found that was still on the standing bed-place, but the water was above the mattress. I immediately comprehended that the vessel was sinking, and I called out, but there was no reply.
The white wood packing-case under the bed-place had remained unopened for three years now, as though Captain Whalley had felt that, after the Fair Maid was gone, there could be no abiding-place on earth for his affections. His hands rested on his knees; his handsome head with big eyebrows presented a rigid profile to the doorway. The expected voice spoke out at last. "Once more, then.
The sun rose and had nearly set again before Jackson spoke; at last he asked for some drink. "It is over now," said he faintly. "The pain is subsiding, and death is near at hand. You may read to me now; but, first, while I think of it, let me tell you where you will find your father's property." "I know," replied I; "in your bed-place under the board. I saw you remove it when you did not see me."
Jackson threw himself back in his bed-place and was silent. So was I, for I was recalling all that he had told me, and my doubts were raised as to the truth of it. I did not like his hurrying over the latter portion of his narrative in the way which he had done. What he had said about my mother was not satisfactory.
We found him standing before a rude hut erected in front of a cave, which formed, indeed, a back apartment to it. There was only one rough bed-place on one side of it, though there were several stools, and a table in the centre. A seaman's chest stood open, and contained a few articles of clothing.
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