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"And you believed him, ma'am?" "I forget, sir, if I believed him; but he certainly knows that we are here in search of treasure, for I told him so myself." Captain Branscome gasped. "You you told him so?" he echoed.
Why, he has a sword of honour at home, given him for one of the bravest battles ever fought!" "Gently, boy gently!" Captain Branscome corrected me, with a smile, albeit a sad one. "Youth is generous, ladies; it sees these things through a haze which colours and magnifies them, and and it's a very poor kind of hero you'll consider me before I have done. Where was I? Ah, yes, to be sure the banquet.
Then it follows the treasure wasn't hidden before 1776, and that rules out all the yarns about Hornigold, Teach, Bat Roberts, and suchlike pirates, the last of whom must have been hanged a good fifty years before: though here's evidence" Captain Branscome laid a forefinger on the chart "that these gentry had dealings with the island in their day.
"He is confident that he saw a man, somewhat more than an hour since, standing at the head of the creek." "Now, that is very curious," said Plinny; "for the gentleman told me he had borrowed Harry's boat without being observed." "I I beg your pardon, ma'am!" Captain Branscome stared about him. "A gentleman, did you say?" "Yes, and such distinguished manners!
"I could take a message to Captain Branscome," I suggested; "an' he might fetch you the money, if you tell him where to look for it." "That's an idea," decided Captain Coffin, after a moment's thought. He unbuttoned his waistcoat, dived a hand within the breast of his shirt, and pulled forth a key looped through with a tarry string. This string he severed with his pocket-knife.
"I really think, ma'am," said Captain Branscome, "that, once in Jamaica, we shall have no difficulty in finding, at the western end of the island, just the ship we require." "Bless my soul!" said Miss Belcher. "Except for the sea-voyage, it might be a middle-aged jaunt in a po'-shay!" Miss Belcher was here employing a smuggling term.
That the island is inhabited I supposed you to know, since Captain Branscome tells me he reported catching sight of smoke yesterday when off the western coast; but the fellows there are, or were, three of them, by the way are no friends of mine." "We have only your word for it," said Miss Belcher, without lowering her musket. "True, ma'am," the Doctor assented, with a bow.
A voice spoke to her from the moonlit terrace below. "Hallo!" she answered. "Is that Captain Branscome?" "It is, ma'am: and Miss Plinlimmon Amelia as she allows me to call her." Miss Belcher cut him short with a laugh. It rang out frank and free enough, and only I, crouching by the wall, understood the hysterical springs of it. "You two geese!" she exclaimed, and ran down the steps to them.
As a matter of fact, and as the reader knows, a great deal had happened to upset me, but that any hint of it should have reached Captain Branscome was in the highest degree unlikely, and in any case I could not discuss it with him from an upstairs window and in my patient's hearing. So I contented myself with asking him where he had spent his holiday. The question appeared to confuse him.
He ran a finger around the edge of his saucer after the manner of one performing on the musical glasses, and threw a hunted glance at the window, as though for a way of escape. "My name, ladies, is Branscome. I was once well-to-do, and commanded a packet in the service of his Majesty's Postmasters-General. But times have altered with me, and I am now an usher in a school, and a very poor man."
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