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"No; think." "Yes; think." By this time the Coxes too had completed their spat and their reconciliation, and were turning in to think, to think, and toss, and fret, and worry over what the remark could possibly have been which Goodson made to the stranded derelict; that golden remark; that remark worth forty thousand dollars, cash.
In that case he had swum out and tugged Goodson ashore in an unconscious state with a great crowd looking on and applauding, but when he had got it all thought out and was just beginning to remember all about it, a whole swarm of disqualifying details arrived on the ground: the town would have known of the circumstance, Mary would have known of it, it would glare like a limelight in his own memory instead of being an inconspicuous service which he had possibly rendered "without knowing its full value."
"I could not have a goodson more worthy than yourself," she was kind enough to say. "Once I thought Betty's favour was elsewhere, in an airt that scarcely pleased me, and " "But that's all over," I said, warmly, sure she thought of MacLachlan. "I hope it is; I think it is," she said.
Goodson called again at Santa Marta on the 11th to get water, and on the 14th stood before Cartagena to view the harbour. Leaving three vessels to ply there, he returned to Jamaica, bringing back with him only two small prizes, one laden with wine, the other with cocoa.
Do they require particulars, or do you reckon a kind of a general answer will do? 'If they require particulars, I will come back, Mr. Goodson; I will take the general answer first. 'Very well, then, tell them to go to hell I reckon that's general enough. And I'll give you some advice, Sawlsberry; when you come back for the particulars, fetch a basket to carry what is left of yourself home in."
I was afraid that if I started to operate my scheme by getting my letter laid before you, you would say to yourselves, 'Goodson is the only man among us who would give away twenty dollars to a poor devil' and then you might not bite at my bait. But heaven took Goodson; then I knew I was safe, and I set my trap and baited it.
Here was Vice-Admiral Goodson, whom the more I know the more I value for a serious man and staunch. Here was Whistler the flagmaker, which vexed me, but it mattered not.
It was a happy half-hour that the couple spent there on the settee caressing each other; it was the old days come again days that had begun with their courtship and lasted without a break till the stranger brought the deadly money. By-and-by the wife said: "Oh, Edward, how lucky it was you did him that grand service, poor Goodson! I never liked him, but I love him now.
The first question was, Who could the citizen have been who gave the stranger the twenty dollars? It seemed a simple one; both answered it in the same breath "Barclay Goodson." "Yes," said Richards, "he could have done it, and it would have been like him, but there's not another in the town." "Everybody will grant that, Edward grant it privately, anyway.
In the latter part of October, just a month before the departure of Blake, Goodson sailed with a fleet of eight vessels to ravage the Spanish coasts. According to one account his original design had been against Rio de la Hacha near the pearl fisheries, "but having missed his aim" he sailed for Santa Marta.
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