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Updated: June 27, 2025
When Flaggan had varied his remarks once or twice, by way of translating them, Rais Ali shook his head. "That bad," said he, "ver' bad. We mus' be tremendous cautious. Ziffa's a little brute." "Ha!" thought Ziffa. "You don't say so?" observed Flaggan. "Well, now, I'd scarce have thought we had reason to be so fearful of a small thing, with a stupid brown face like that."
Meanwhile, Ted Flaggan, having given the Admiral all the information he possessed as to the condition of the city and its defences, was sent forward to take part in the expected fight, or go below out of harm's way, as suited him best.
Sure ye might heave us a rope," replied the Arab with a grin. A roar of laughter greeted this speech, and in another minute Ted Flaggan stood bowing modestly on the quarter-deck of the flag-ship.
"Take no further notice of it, dear," said her mother, who guessed the reason of the child's curiosity. Leaving the friends at lunch in charge of Paulina Ruffini, she hastened to find Ted Flaggan, whom she warned to be more careful how he conversed with his friend Rais. "What puzzles me, ma'am," said Ted, "is, how did the small critter understand me, seein' that she's a Moor?"
Lucien passed the small lantern to Flaggan, whose hard good-humoured features were for a few seconds suffused with a ruddy glow as he put the light close to it, and drew the flame vigorously into the bowl of his very black little pipe. Then, setting it down beside him, he smoked in silence and in much satisfaction, as he contemplated the hearty manner in which the young men enjoyed their meal.
"You hears what yer master says, don't 'ee?" said Ted Flaggan, who viewed the infidelity and cowardice of the interpreter with supreme disgust, as he seized him by the nape of the neck and thrust him towards the door. "Git out, ye white-livered spalpeen, or I'll multiply every bone in yer body by two."
But what's to be done with me, Rais? for if the cownsl an' the British gin'rally are in limbo, it's a bad look-out for Ted Flaggan, seein' that I'm on the black list already." Rais Ali appeared to ponder the case for a few seconds. "Come an' have one bath," he said, with sudden animation; "after that we go brikfast togidder."
Feeling rather than seeing this, for the hole was deep and dark, Flaggan was under the necessity of showing fight in earnest, and there is no saying what would have been the result had not Lucien suddenly appeared from the interior of a subterranean cavern with which the hole communicated. Lucien understood English well and spoke it fluently.
Keep 'er steady a point morer to the westward so, yoo can't go wrong." Instead of obeying orders, Ted Flaggan turned, and, with an amused smile, watched the retreating figure of the interpreter.
"The best of drink for man and beast," said Lucien, laughing. "May be so," returned Flaggan shortly, "but I ain't used to it." "Is it long since you came to this country?" asked Lucien, while he and Mariano rolled up two of those neat little cigarettes with which the denizens of Algiers at the present day are wont frequently to solace themselves.
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