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Manoel, distracted, called to him, breathed into him, and endeavored to recover the heart's pulsation. "It beats! It beats!" he exclaimed. Yes! Benito's heart did still beat, and in a few minutes Manoel's efforts restored him to life. "The body! the Body!" Such were the first words, the only ones which escaped from Benito's lips.
But ere long Captain Delano bethought him that, indulgent as he was at the first, in judging the Spaniard, he might not, after all, have exercised charity enough. At bottom it was Don Benito's reserve which displeased him; but the same reserve was shown towards all but his faithful personal attendant.
Not that such precisely was the impression made by the Spaniard on the mind of his visitor. The Spaniard's individual unrest was, for the present, but noted as a conspicuous feature in the ship's general affliction. Still, Captain Delano was not a little concerned at what he could not help taking for the time to be Don Benito's unfriendly indifference towards himself.
Come down below, and I will give you a basketful to hawk about." "I shall have to tell them at the canteen Mother Charcoal's that I am going to leave." "That won't do. You must come at once if you come at all. Which will you do?" While she still hesitated, a voice from the subterranean regions at the end of the shop fell upon her ear. Her heart gave a great jump at the sound it was Benito's. "Joe!
A fierce, baleful light gleamed in Benito's dark eyes; he clenched his fists and set his teeth fast. "You know him?" said Mrs. Wilders, readily interpreting these signs of hate. "I should like to kill him!" hissed Benito. "Do so, and claim your own reward." "But how? When? Where?" "That is for you to settle. Watch him, stick to him, dog his footsteps, follow him wherever he goes.
He spoke no word. He only rested his eye on his master's, as if, amid all Don Benito's distress, a little to refresh his spirit by the silent sight of fidelity. Presently the ship's bell sounded two o'clock; and through the cabin windows a slight rippling of the sea was discerned; and from the desired direction. "There," exclaimed Captain Delano, "I told you so, Don Benito, look!"
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