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"Well?" says I, faintly. "Why then, shipmate, if I free ye of your bonds, wilt be my comrade sworn? Aye or no?" "No!" says I. "Plague take ye that bargain with dying man. No!" "Why then," sighs he, "here's a good rick ablaze, here's John Purdy the beadle wi' his head broke, and here's me in a sweat, alack and all to no purpose, since needs must you in your bilboes bide."
Two weeks later his trial was had, and he was ordered "to be set into the bilboes," and afterwards sent prisoner to England.
When ten days had gone by without the fulfilment of this promise Gammon grew uneasy. He could not communicate with Greenacre, having no idea' where the man lived or where he was to be heard of; an inquiry at the Bilboes proved that he was not known there.
"I will cut the man into ounces who comes betwixt us!" cried Sharkey, as he turned his fish-like eyes from one to the other. "Nay, lass, the man is not born that will take you from John Sharkey. Sit here upon my knee, and place your arm round me so. Sink me, if she has not learned to love me at sight! Tell me, my pretty, why you were so mishandled and laid in the bilboes aboard yonder craft?"
Fetters, indeed, were common and Fashionable Wear in the Gaol. 'Twas pleaded that the walls of the prison were so rotten through age, and the means of guarding the prisoners for they could not be always calling in the Grenadiers so limited, that they must needs put the poor creatures in the bilboes, or run the chance of their escaping every day in the week.
Ive got the bridge right ahead, and the bilboes dead aft: I calls that good steerage, boy. Heave ahead. Lay your lash in the right spot, Mr. Benny Pump, said the wood- chopper, or Ill put you in the palm of my hand and box your ears. Where be you going with my team? Team! Ay. my cart and oxen,
Hereupon he glances at me from the corners of his eyes and shakes his head: "Your face is bloody, Martin, are ye hurt?" "My belly's empty, Adam." "Why, I guessed as much, shipmate, Godby's bringing ye the wherewithal to fill it. In the meantime I'll free you o' your bilboes awhile, though I must lock you up again that you may be found snug and secure in the morning."
At half-past ten he made a suggestion that his lordship might do worse than go to bed, but this was ill received. "By no means. Greenacre may be here at any moment. He will certainly come to-night. If he doesn't come, do you know what occurs to me? Why shouldn't we drive into the City and ask whether he has returned?" "Ask where?" "He lives at a place a sort of hotel which he calls the Bilboes.
When all were present, except those whose activities on the schooner had already procured them a passport to another world, Dolores swept the crowd with a penetrating glance and called for Milo, who appeared from the rear of the council hall laden with chains and bilboes which he cast down at her feet.
The old-fashioned arrangement of iron bars called the "bilboes" was fastened to the bulkhead at the bow end of the alleyway. It had two or three sets of iron shackles chained to it and into the smallest pair of these, meant for the wrists of a grown victim, he locked an ankle of each of the boys. "Ye'll stay there a while, till we sail again," Herriot remarked as he departed.
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