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The door suddenly opened, and I fell into the arms of Everson, Wareham's managing clerk. 'Great Scott! said he. 'What is the matter? You've nearly brought the house down! 'Shut the door! I replied. 'Shut the door! 'But what has happened to you? I had seated myself on the stairs, and a full minute went by before I could begin my story. Then I told Everson all that had befallen me.
"I do; what is the pledge?" "That you point your gun at her?" It was a fearful pledge to exact, but Jack Everson gave it without hesitation. "You understand me; enough; let us lose no more time; I will turn to the right; good-bye; we are all in the hands of God." There was not a tear in the eye of the parent.
I fancied that next to Everson himself, Norma placed more confidence in Dominick than in any of the others, which seemed to be quite natural, though it noticeably piqued Gage.
Asta Everson and Norma, especially, were overjoyed at the news that Kennedy had consented to accompany them back to the wreck. Evidently they had great faith in him, from what they had heard at home. Accordingly, Everson lost no time in preparing to return to the yacht.
In due time the Silver Cross itself came, and scouts who strolled up to visit the cabin on the precipice noticed that sometimes the little sandy-haired fellow wore it, so that it came to be rumored about that Garry Everson cared more about him than he did about the medal. There were times when Garry took his meals up to him and often he was not at campfire in the evenings.
They had the whole night before them, and, with his intimate knowledge of the roads, paths and trails of the country and jungles, he was confident of guiding them beyond danger and to some place where, when morning dawned, there would be little to fear in the way of discovery. This course would have been taken except for the absence of Jack Everson.
Who was she, friend or foe? We knew not what to expect. Everson, pale but with a firm grip on his nerves, did not move from the deck as the power-boat came alongside, and Dominick, Gage, and Kinsale swung themselves up the ladder to us. "It's the tug of that pilot, Guiteras, sir," interposed the man who had spoken before.
Everson's sloop was boarded and captured with twenty-six prisoners, but Everson himself and several others escaped by jumping overboard and swimming to the shore. The prisoners, most of whom were English, were tried six weeks later, convicted of piracy and sentenced to death; but the lieutenant-governor suspended the execution and wrote to the king for instructions.
His heart might be torn by grief, but he was now the Roman from whose lips no murmuring was heard. It seemed to Jack Everson that the strangeness of the incidents of the past hour had lifted him into a state of exaltation.
"Score me a bull's-eye!" called Jack Everson, who in his pleasure over his success, could not wait for the result. "But see!" cried Mary, "you have only infuriated them. Oh! father, how can we save ourselves?" The success of the first shot gave Jack Everson self-confidence and he took less time in aiming the second, which was as unerring as the first.
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