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The careful mending of my linen, too for Mrs. Stimcoe with all her faults was a needlewoman helped to disarm suspicion. When we talked of my studies I sang the praises of Captain Branscome, and told of his past heroism and his sword of honour. "Branscome? Branscome, of the Londonderry?" said my father. "Ay, to be sure, I remember Branscome a Godfearing fellow and a good seaman.
"All the good that comes to us, somehow, seems to spring from women like yourself, while we give you nothing but trouble in return. Even this last misery, which my selfishness has brought to you, lifts me to breathe a cleaner air." "He must have forgotten to post it," Mrs. Branscome pleaded. "Yes; we must believe that. Good-bye!"
From Barbadoes we beat up for Jamaica, and anchored in Kingston Harbour just forty-five days from home. The next morning we said farewell to the ship, and were rowed ashore to a good hotel, where we spent a lazy week in email excursions, while Captain Branscome busied himself in hiring a mule-train and holding consultations with a firm of merchants, Messrs.
He laughed, and when the laugh was done it seemed to prolong itself inside him for fully half a minute. "You are right, ma'am. Let us be practical again; and, as the first practical question, let me ask you, or Captain Branscome, what you propose to do with this man? Obviously, we cannot take him along with us after the treasure." "Well, I imagine we are returning to the schooner.
"The Island, ma'am!" announced Captain Branscome from the helm; and, turning there by the fo'c's'le hatch and following the gesture of his hand, I descried a purplish smear on the southern horizon. To me it looked but a low-lying cloud or a fogbank. "I'll take your word for it," answered Miss Belcher, calmly. "You have timed it well, Captain Branscome."
"Excuse me, ma'am," said Captain Branscome, as the dinghy fell alongside and he climbed on deck. "I have no wish to alarm you, and, indeed, there may be no cause at all for alarm. But Harry has brought us some serious news. He reports that there is a man a stranger on the Island." "How could Harry have known?" was Plinny's unexpected response.
Cox and Roebuck, to whom Miss Belcher came recommended with a letter of credit. Rogers in begging a collection of humming-birds. He had three boats idle, including a pretty little fore-and-aft schooner of thirty tons, the Espriella, which Captain Branscome had no sooner set eyes upon than he decided to be the very thing for our purpose.
But that it should have been forced upon her by the vanity of a trivial person like Marston, engaged in the pursuit of his desires, sent a fever of repulsion through his veins. He turned back to the door deluded by the notion that it was his duty to render the occurrence impossible of repetition. He was checked, however, by the thought of Mrs. Branscome.
And as for standing under those trees, I was never on the bank there for one second no, nor for the half of one. The Captain and I walked around the spit together the tide has covered our footmarks or I could show 'em to you." "At any rate there was a man," I persisted. "And he couldn't have been the Captain either, for he was wearing dark clothes " "The devil! I say, Branscome, listen to this "
"There was always a tale about Falmouth that Cap'n Danny had struck a buried treasure," said Mr. Goodfellow. "'Twas a joke in the publics, and with the street boys; but I never heard tell till now that any one took it serious." "He was learning navigation," mused Miss Belcher. "What was the name of his teacher?" "A Captain Branscome, ma'am. He's a teacher at Stimcoe's."
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