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Goddedaal; and that Trent had always signed with his left hand. By the time I had gleaned this information, Pinkerton was ready. "That's all that we can do. Now for the schooner," said he; "and by to-morrow evening I lay hands on Goddedaal, or my name's not Pinkerton." "How have you managed?" I inquired. "You'll see before you get to bed," said Pinkerton.
But there's two thousand pounds there that don't belong to you, and I'm an honest man. Give me the two thousand that's yours, and I'll give you a passage to the coast, and land every man-jack of you in 'Frisco with fifteen pounds in his pocket, and the captain here with twenty-five." Goddedaal laid down his head on the table like a man ashamed. "You're joking," said Wicks, purple in the face.
But there's two thousand pounds there that don't belong to you, and I'm an honest man. Give me the two thousand that's yours, and I'll give you a passage to the coast, and land every man-jack of you in 'Frisco with fifteen pounds in his pocket, and the captain here with twenty-five." Goddedaal laid down his head on the table like a man ashamed. "You're joking," cried Wicks, purple in the face.
I was near 'em as I am to you; and I could make out he was all to bits 'eard his breath rattle in his blooming lungs as he come down the ladder. Yes, they was a scared lot, small blame to 'em, I say! The next after Trent come him as was mate." "Goddedaal!" I exclaimed. "And a good name for him too," chuckled the man-o'-war's man, who probably confounded the word with a familiar oath.
And here, it seems, he was close up with this island on the sixth, sails all these days, and is close up with it again by daylight on the eleventh." "Goddedaal said they had the deuce's luck," said Carthew. "Well, it don't look like real life that's all I can say," returned Wicks. "It's the way it was, though," argued Carthew.
I must have lain for some time inert and stupidly miserable before I became aware of a reiterated knocking at the door; with which discovery all my wits flowed back in their accustomed channels, and I remembered the sale and the wreck, and Goddedaal and Nares, and Johnson and Black Tom, and the troubles of yesterday and the manifold engagements of the day that was to come.
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