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Updated: May 19, 2025
"Hullo, young man!" shouted the lawyer, "this is a pretty business! Upon my soul! Your manner of entry into our commercial life is somewhat forceful! What the deuce do you mean by all this?" Cameron stood, much abashed. His passion was all gone; in the calm light of after-thought his action of yesterday seemed boyish. "I'm awfully sorry, Mr. Denman," he replied, "and I came to apologise to you."
"No guess not," came the answer, through the small deadlight. "Fainted away since we picked her up. Burned or scalded, somewhat." Denman saw the boat for a moment or two as it came alongside, and noticed the still form of the woman in the stern sheets, her face hidden by a black silk neckerchief.
Lord Denman told me that I was at liberty to mention this fact to any one; and expressed in noble and generous terms his concern at the existence of such serious and unfounded imputations upon your character and honor.
The probability of poor Mrs Denman keeping cool in such circumstances was uncommonly small; for she was at that moment hot all over, and her face flushed at the mere recital of such horrors! He wound up with an emphatic reiteration of the assurance that her only chance lay in "keeping cool."
With some difficulty Nan raised herself to a sitting position and immediately caught sight of a bowl on the ground filled with an ominous-looking reddish-coloured liquid. "Good gracious! Has my foot been bleeding like that?" she asked, going rather white. "Bless you, no, my dear!" Mrs. Denman, a cheery-faced countrywoman, had bustled in again, with some long strips of linen to serve as a bandage.
"Ah, bravo!" cried I. "I laid a trap for you there, Mr. Denman. Now I need not ask you; I am sure you did not tell this prying stranger." "To be sure not, sir," said the butler. I went through the form of "shaking him by the 'and" like Mr. Norris not, however, with genuine enthusiasm.
"Serve it in the after cabin, then," said Denman, turning away to hide the coming smile, and Daniels departed.
Denman" smiling faintly "says she'll put 'an 'assock' in the car for your damaged leg to rest on, so with rugs and that coat you were so averse to bringing I think you'll be all right." He went to the table and poured out something in a glass. "Drink that," he said, holding it towards her. "It'll warm you up." Nan sniffed at the liquid in the glass and tendered it back to him with a grimace.
Talk it over among yourselves, and if you agree with Forsythe that I'm not in command here, get busy, too, and I'll overrule you." He released Denman, moved around among them, looking each man steadily in the face, and they straggled forward. "Now, sir," he said to Denman, "come below." Denman followed him down the companion and into the wardroom.
"I reckon they have been, but Denman practices the old Captain Kidd maxim: 'Dead men tell no tales." "Has he dared to kill anybody?" "Well, men have been missing around here, and later on, they have been found floating in the bay, and the people have always concluded they were cases of drowning while drunk; and I always thought so myself, until about two months ago, when I fell to a suspicion."
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