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Updated: July 3, 2025
"A little food, mistress," says I, touching my weather-worn hat and pulling it lower over my bruised and swollen features. "Why come in, master, come in there be none here but my Roger and Godby the peddler, as knoweth everyone."
As he spake the narrow doorway was darkened and two rough fellows entered, and each bore a formidable bludgeon. "Aye," says one, a big, surly-voiced fellow, "here be us, peddler, and there be you, so best come easy an' no tricks, mind!" "Then easy does it, lads!" says Godby, no whit abashed.
'Law is law, Sir Adam, quo' she. When cometh Godby, running, to say the cursed ship was afire, and coming to the main hatchway, I beheld, half-strangled in the smoke, yourself, shipmate, and a woman in your arms " "Ha 'twas Joanna!" said I, leaping in the bed. "What of her, Adam what of her, man?" "A fine woman, I'll allow, Martin, and by her looks a lady of quality "
So having taken our leave of Bym, Godby and I followed Adam along the passage, guided by the Bo's'n's lanthorn until, turning a sudden, sharp corner, we plunged into pitchy gloom wherein I groped my way until Penfeather's voice stayed me: "Easy all!" says he, softly. "Have your pistols ready and heed how you come."
And now, even as this thought took dreadful shape and meaning even as suspicion grew to certainty, I heard Godby draw a gasping breath, saw him reach a stealthy, fumbling hand behind him and open the door, and then, leaping backwards, he was swallowed in the dark, and with a hurry of stumbling feet, was gone.
"Ahoy you, Tressady!" roared Godby in reply, "Cap'n Adam is ashore wi' ye this moment look astarn o' you, ye rogue!" Round sprang Tressady as out from the dense shadow of Bartlemy's tree stepped Adam Penfeather himself.
"I never heard any thing of the kind hinted at before, I assure you," said Elinor. "Oh, did not you? But it was said, I know, very well, and by more than one; for Miss Godby told Miss Sparks, that nobody in their senses could expect Mr.
While I lay half-stunned with the fall, for the shock of grounding had thrown me down, Adam commanded every one on shore with muskets and pistols, so I presently found myself running across the sands 'twixt Adam and Godby, nor stayed we till we reached the cliff yonder, where are many caves very wonderful, as I will show you, Martin.
'That same, says I, 'but who's that peeping over the hedge there? The fool turns to see, I twist the pistol out of his grip, and have him very neatly trussed and gagged with his belt and my girdle, and so, heaving him i' the ditch, into the saddle and here I am." "Godby," says Penfeather, viewing him keen-eyed, "I need men will ye sail with us for the Main?" "Does Martin sail?" "He does!
So saying, Godby climbed to the quarter-deck and I after him, and mounting the poop-ladder, presently came on Penfeather, peering hard over our lee. "Ha, is it you, shipmate!" says he, drawing me out of the wind. "Look yonder, d'ye see aught of a rag o' sail, Martin?" Following his pointing finger, I stared away into the distance across a tumbling spume of waters vague in the half-light.
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