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Updated: June 27, 2025
Now it chanced that night that the stout British seaman, Ted Flaggan, lay in a hammock suspended between two trees in a retired part of the consul's garden, the weather being so warm that not only he but several of the other domestics had forsaken their dwellings during the night, and lay about the grounds in various contrivances more or less convenient, according to the fancy or mechanical aptitude of the makers thereof.
"Tell me before ye go, Ally, what may be the use of them three big hooks close to the gate," said Flaggan, pointing upwards. "Them's for throwin' down teeves an' murderers on to. You stay here; me not be wery long come back." Rais Ali hurried away, leaving the sailor to observe and moralise on all that passed around him.
Will you go to Sidi Omar, or some of his people, and find this out? Take the sailor, Mr Flaggan, with you, and send him back with the information as soon as possible." "Yis, mum," replied the interpreter; "an' please, mum, I was want too, tree days' leave of absins." "No doubt Colonel Langley will readily grant your request.
It was fishin' boat in Breetish pay. Dey find out who I be. Give leave to go shore again, and warn Breetish consul to look out, for Turk ver' savage when him hear of dis. Lord Exmouth, wid large fleet come straight to Algiers, for delivrin' all slaves, an' blow up de city." "Hurrah!" shouted Flaggan, in a subdued voice, while he unpocketed the cudgel and twirled it over his head.
One of these was seen going about the decks, glancing earnestly and quickly into faces, as if in search of some one. It was Mariano seeking for Angela! He was closely followed by Ted Flaggan and Lucien. "Depind on it, they've kep' her back," said Ted. "I fear they have," said Lucien.
At the Bab-Azoun gate, which occupied a position not many yards distant from the spot on which now stands the principal theatre of Algiers, Ali left Ted Flaggan for a few minutes, begging him to wait until he had transacted a piece of business in the market held just outside the gate.
"You've got a fine time of it here all to yersilf, Mister Flaggan. Ah, it's little the Dey knows what yer after, me boy, or it's the last day ye'd have to call yer own. Well, now, it's more like a drame than anything I knows on.
With a wicked snort and fling that lifted Flaggan high out of the saddle, it rushed madly on, left the pirate captain far behind, and at length dashed through the Bab-Azoun gate of Algiers, despite the frantic efforts of the guard to check or turn it.
Just then Bacri entered, conducting a number of women and children who sought sanctuary there. "Some of my people have need of the British arm to protect them," said the Jew, with a sad smile. "And they shall have it," said the consul, taking Bacri by the hand. "See them attended to, Flaggan," he added, turning to the seaman. "Ay, ay, sir.
Two days after the events narrated in the last chapter, Mrs Langley, being seated on her favourite couch in the court under the small banana-tree, sent Zubby into the garden to command the attendance of Ted Flaggan.
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