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"Lean on these men," he said to Hurlstone significantly, "and do not overestimate your strength. Thank Heaven, no bones are broken, and you are only bruised by the fall. With a little rest, I think we can get along without laying the captain's medicine-chest under contribution. Our kind friend Mr.
And if he were not if he had long before been in complicity with them for the removal of Eleanor, might he not also have duped him, Hurlstone, and sent him on this mission as a mere blind; and more infamously perhaps even thus decoyed him on board the wrong ship? No it was impossible! His honest blood quickly flew to his cheek at that momentary disloyal suspicion.
But we're going to see you put right and square in the matter; and if we can't do it here, we'll do it, if we have to follow you to Mexico! that's all!" "And I," said Eleanor, grasping the Senor's hand, and half blushing as she glanced at Hurlstone, "see that I have already a friend here who will help me to put in action all the sympathy I feel."
"The Padre is already proscribed as one of the Council," said Senor Perkins quietly. "Do you mean to say," said Hurlstone impetuously, "that you will permit a hair of that innocent old man's head to be harmed by those wretches?" "You are generous but hasty, my friend," said Senor Perkins, in gentle deprecation. "Allow me to put your question in another way.
The interview of Perkins with the messenger in the next cabin was a long one, and apparently a stormy one on the part of the newcomer. Hurlstone could hear his excited foreign voice, shrill with the small vehemence of a shallow character; but there was no change in the slow, measured tones of the Senor. He listlessly began to turn over the papers on the table. Presently he paused.
Enough for me to confess that it was mainly due to the deep womanly interest that SHE took in the fortunes of the passengers of the Excelsior that I gave the Mexican authorities early notice of their whereabouts. But, pardon me," he stopped hesitatingly, with a slight flush, as he noticed the utterly inattentive face and attitude of Hurlstone, "I am boring you.
The events of the last twenty-four hours had evidently affected Don Miguel, for although he received Hurlstone courteously, there was a singular reflection of the priest's harshness in his face as he glanced over the missive. He took out his watch. "I give you ten minutes with the prisoner, Don Diego. More, I cannot."
Let me go." "Captain Bunker," said Hurlstone, recovering himself in time to prevent the maniac from dashing into the water. "Look at me. Don't you know me?" "Yes, yes; you're one of old Bunker's dogs kicked overboard by Perkins. I'm one of Perkins' dogs gone mad, and locked up by Perkins! Ha, ha! But I got out! Hush! SHE let me out. SHE thought I was going to see the boys at San Antonio.
"Who are you? and whence come you?" demanded the Commander of Hurlstone, with grave austerity. Hurlstone hesitated; the priest leaned forward with a half anxious, half warning gesture. There was a sudden rustle in the passage; the crowd gave way as Miss Keene, followed by Mrs. Markham, entered. The young girl's eyes caught those of the prostrate man. With an impulsive cry she ran towards him.
M'Carthy's knowledge of Spanish is confined to a few objurgations which generally preclude extended conversation." "And who are you," said Hurlstone, more calmly, "who are willing to do this for a stranger?" "A friend equally of yours, the captain's, and the other passengers'," replied Senor Perkins pleasantly.
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