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Updated: July 3, 2025
Long after man and boat were swallowed up in the fog I sat there lost in thought, insomuch that I started to feel a hearty clap on the shoulder and, turning, beheld Godby, a pair of great gold rings in his ears, and very sailor-like in all things from sea-boots to mariner's bonnet. "Here's a ploy, Mart'n!" says he with a round oath.
"But Lord, young master, they do ha' used ye ill your poor face, all bruised and swole it be!" "Which it be!" nodded Roger. "Likewise cut! Which be ill for 'ee though like Godby here I won't say but what I moughtn't ha' took a heave at ye, had I been there, it being nat'ral-like to heave things at such times, d'ye see?" "Very natural!" says I.
And in the cave lie yet fifty and four bars of gold and others of silver, with store of rix-dollars, doubloons, moidores and pieces of eight gold coins of all countries. There let 'em rot here's more wealth than we shall ever spend. Shall we divide it here or aboard ship?" "Wait rather until we reach England." "So be it, comrade. Then I'm minded to apportion a share to Godby here what d'ye say?"
And here," said he, rising as a knock sounded on the door, "should be an old friend o' yours that got himself something scorched on your account." And opening the door he disclosed a squat, broad-shouldered fellow of a sober habit, his head swathed in a bandage, but the eyes of him very round and bright and his wide mouth up-curving in a smile. "Godby!" said I, and reached but my hand to him.
"And look 'ee, Martin my cove," quoth the peddler, grasping my hand, "there be ever and always the good high-road leading on and away to better things, so happen ye should change your mind, seek me here 'twixt this and dawn, if to-morrow ye shall hear o' Godby at the Fox at Spelmonden. So luck go wi' ye, my bien cull."
When Godby was cut down by a treacherous blow there happened to be two or three men within hail, and these at once dashed to the rescue; but they were disarmed, while the fanatic brandished a razor-edged Afghan blade, and was prepared to sell his life dearly. Sharp eyes and ready wit, however, came to aid.
"To be sure!" said I, and getting upon my feet, reeled for very weakness and should have fallen but that Godby propped me with his shoulder; supported thus and despite Godby's remonstrances, I staggered to and fro and gradually found my strength return in some small measure, whereupon I began to dress myself forthwith. "Whither are we sailing, Godby?"
'God send no spars carry away, quoth he, 'and we must lay alongside the nearest Spaniard and board. ''Tis desperate venture, said Godby, 'they be great ships and full o' Dons. 'Aye, said Adam, 'but we are Englishmen and desperate, And so we stood on, Martin, and these great ships after us, and ever our own poor ship lying lower and lower in the water, until I looked to see it sink under us and go down altogether.
Penfeather was at the casement, had whipped open the lattice and, pinning the intruder by the throat, thrust a pistol into his face all in a moment; and then I recognised Godby the peddler. "Let be, Adam!" I cried, springing forward. "Let be, here's a friend!"
"Why, 'tis the stench o' this place faugh! Come aloft and take a mouthful o' good, sweet air, pal." "You say you sought these men everywhere even down here in the hold?" "Aye, alow and aloft, every bulkhead and timber from trucks to keelson!" "And all this time I was asleep, Godby?" "Aye like a log, Mart'n." "And breathing heavily?"
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