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And now began a hard time for Tristram and his companions below. They tugged and sweated, and presently L'Heureuse began to leap through the water. Above the swish of the long sweeps rose a tumult of oaths, imprecations, outcries, sobs, as the overseers plied their whips, not caring where they struck.
Such a report, aptly drawn, may not only check Portland, but justify me, as knowing your intent from the start, and that it was a move for Wm's, good. On reading this Captain Salt cursed several times; and paced the deck in meditation for a whole afternoon. Then an idea struck him. During the week that followed he made excellent progress in the affections of the officers of L'Heureuse.
"Sir, you have beaten me. I fought your men for awhile, but I can't stand up against this." VII. The Galley. There was one man, however, who soon had reason to repent that the little man had been given his sword again. Dark had fallen when M. de la Pailletine conducted him courteously over the frigate's side and across the deck of L'Heureuse towards his own cabin.
The six vessels kept within easy distance of each other, and Captain Salt, on the deck of L'Heureuse, directed their movements with a serenity that cheered even the poor men on the benches below him. As the awning shook and the masts creaked gently above them, they stretched their limbs, drew long breaths, and felt that after all it was good to live.
"You are in luck, comrade," he said, as they parted under the Rice-bank fort, beside the pier; "L'Heureuse is the Commodore's galley, and the only one in which a poor devil of a slave has an awning above his head to keep the rain and sun off. Ah, what it is to have six feet of stature and a pair of shoulders!" It turned out as he said.
'Amen to that, my patron replied reverently. 'But that is not all that is not all. And he began to walk up and down the room humming the 118th Psalm a little above his breath La voici l'heureuse journee Que Dieu a faite a plein desir; Par nous soit joie demenee, Et prenons en elle plaisir.
The Abbe Racine, in his Discours a l'Occasion du 192eme Anniversaire de l'heureuse Mort de la Ven. Mere de l'Incarnation, delivered at Quebec in 1864, speaks of them as transcendent proofs of the supreme favor of Heaven.
He gave orders to lower the sails and stand off till nightfall. The captain, of course, obeyed. They had not lain to above an hour when the man who had been sent to the masthead of L'Heureuse shouted out: "A fleet to the north!" "Whither bound?" called up Captain Salt. "Steering west." "What number?"
The Commodore's galley alone was manned by 336 slaves, and 150 men of all sorts, either officers, soldiers, seamen, or servants. This, however, was the biggest complement of all; for while L'Heureuse had fifty-six oars, with six slaves to tug at each, none of the rest carried more than fifty, with five rowers apiece.
But, indeed, our hero was past caring for this, and when he regained consciousness after a third swoon it was to find himself in other hands. IX. At Sheerness. They explored with especial care the unfortunate L'Heureuse, visiting first the Commodore's cabin, upon the boards of which the blood of Roderick Salt was hardly dry.
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