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"God and Mahomet have mercy on me!" muttered the Jew, whose creed frequently assumed a very ambiguous character. "I will tell you what," continued the captain "you shall have a few men to work the Hansa across, if you like." "But I want to go to Algiers," whimpered Hakkabut. "How often am I to tell you that Algiers is no longer in existence?
After his interview with the newly arrived astronomer, Isaac Hakkabut slunk back again to his tartan. A change had come over his ideas; he could no longer resist the conviction that he was indeed millions and millions of miles away from the earth, where he had carried on so varied and remunerative a traffic.
Before entering upon further explanation, he said that he counted upon the cordial co-operation of them all for the common welfare. Negrete interrupted him by declaring that no promises or pledges could be given until he and his countrymen knew how soon they could be sent back to Spain. "To Spain, do you say?" asked Servadac. "To Spain!" echoed Isaac Hakkabut, with a hideous yell.
We should like to see the color of your money." "Merciful heavens!" the old man whined once more. "Now, none of that! Yes or no? If you are going to buy, say so at once; if not, I shall shut up shop." Hakkabut knew well enough that the orderly was not a man to be trifled with, and said, in a tremulous voice, "Yes, I will buy."
Hakkabut raised no objection, not only because he was aware that the move insured the immediate safety of his tartan, but because he was secretly entertaining the hope that he might entice away two or three of the Dobryna's crew and make his escape to Algiers or some other port. Operations now commenced for preparing proper winter quarters.
And, turning to Rosette, the captain said, "If, sir, I understand right, you require some silver five-franc pieces for your operation?" "Forty," said Rosette, surlily. "Two hundred francs!" whined Hakkabut. "Silence!" cried the captain. "I must have more than that," the professor continued. "I want ten two-franc pieces, and twenty half-francs."
He repeated all that he had said, and by introducing some illustrations from familiar things, he succeeded to a certain extent in conveying some faint idea of the convulsion that had happened. The event was precisely what he had foretold. The communication was received by all alike with the most supreme indifference. Hakkabut did not say a word.
Of course, it took seven pounds of coffee to do this. "There you are! There's your coffee, man!" Ben Zoof said. "Are you sure?" inquired Hakkabut, peering down close to the dial. "Are you quite sure that the needle touches the point?" "Yes; look and see." "Give it a little push, please." "Why?" "Because because " "Well, because of what?" cried the orderly, impatiently.
Servadac's mind, of course, turned to the cargo on board the Hansa, and he resolved, according to his promise, to apply to the Jew and become a purchaser. Mutual interest and necessity thus conspired to draw Hakkabut and the captain together. Often and often had Isaac gloated in his solitude over the prospect of first selling a portion of his merchandise for all the gold and silver in the colony.
And peering down into the drawer which the Jew was vainly trying to close, he cried, "Heaps of money! French money! Five-franc pieces! the very thing I want! I must have them!" The captain and his friends, who had returned to the cabin looked on with mingled amusement and bewilderment. "They are mine!" shrieked Hakkabut. "I will have them!" shouted the professor.
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