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Six or seven years before, although then unknown to each other and living on different islands, they each had had business relations with Captain Bilker in the matter of supplying him with "cargo" during his cruises for "blackbirds," and each of them had so carried on the trade that both were ultimately compelled to leave the scene of their operations with great haste, and take up their residence elsewhere, particularly as the commander of the cruiser which arrested Captain Bilker expressed a strong desire to make their acquaintance and let them keep him company to the gallows.
Perhaps by and by those two fellow get mad with me some day, and tell man-o'-war I bin kill three white man and one white woman." "Banderah," and Bilker slapped him on the shoulder, "you're a damned smart fellow! There's no mistake about that. Now look here, I want you to get another thousand sovereigns the thousand I am going to give to Burrowes and Peter.
"That's d d curious!" said Blount, turning to Banderah and speaking in English; and then the chief took him by the arm and pointed towards the shore the boat, pulled by Schwartzkoff and Bur-rowes, with Captain Bilker sitting in the stern, had just touched the beach. Then it flashed across his mind in an instant why the natives had left so suddenly they were lying in ambush for the three men!
"Wal, Dutchy," said Burrowes, looking keenly at his companion, "I reckon you know who the almighty swell in the brass-bound suit is, hey?" "Yaw," replied Schwartzkoff, "it is Bilker, und I thought he was in brison for ten years mit." "Wal, that's true enough that he did get ten years. But that's six years ago, an' I reckon they've let him out.
"I'll have to pay it." "Eh?" "I've forgotten something. Oh, cuss it!" "Eh?" "He said I would." "What?" "That's the devil of it!" "Devil of what?... You DO use vile language!" "Forget about it like this." "Forget WHAT?" "And I said I wouldn't. I said I'd do anything. I said I'd make shirts." "Shirts?" "Shirts at one and something a dozen. Oh, goodness! Bilking! Ann Veronica, you're a bilker!"
And what irritated him all the more was, that he could not even set it down against Montboron and have him sent to some terrible out-of-the-way hole, for the Captain sent in his resignation, wisely considering that sooner or later he should have to pay the costs of that little trick, and that the chances were that he should not get any further promotion, but remain stationary, like a cab which some bilker has left standing for hours at one end of an arcade, while he has made his escape at the other.
Who's going to tell about it? You and your people won't." "What 'bout Missa Blount? What 'bout mission'ry?" Bilker grinned savagely. "Peter and Burrowes say they will kill Blount if I give them another five hundred sovereigns." "What 'bout mission'ry and mission'ry woman?" For a moment or two Bilker, crime-hardened villain as he was, hesitated.
"So I have; but I don't care about going on board for all that" Then looking the two men straight in the face, he drank off the gin, set the mug down on the table, and resumed, "I saw by my glass that that damned, cut-throat blackbirder, Bilker, is her skipper. That's enough for me. I heard that the infernal scoundrel got ten years in gaol. Sorry he wasn't hanged."
Bilker ain't going to fool me; if he's on to anything good, I guess I'm going to have a cut in." "Veil, ve see by und by, ven he comes ashore. Von ding, I dells you, mine friend. Dot fine shentleman don't know vat you und me knows about Captain Bilker." The American gave an affirmative wink, and then going to a rude cupboard he took out a bottle of gin and a couple of tin mugs.
In lieu thereof comes a doubtful greeting and a demand for a deposit of money, for fear lest he should be some vulgar bilker. Then, once he is in the lift, he goes up and up without stopping, until the very topmost floor is reached.
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