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In August, Gardiner, hitherto the healthiest, was obliged to take to his bed in the Pioneer, and there heard of the death of Erwin on the 23rd of August, and of Bryant on the 27th. Maidment buried them both, and came back to Captain Gardiner, who, as he lay in bed, had continued his journal, and written his farewell letters to his wife and children.
Cross, again pausing in the act of mastication, and preparing to listen to further details with heightened interest. "Strange!" echoed the other. "Wait till ye hear the rest, then ye'll think it strange. By-and-by Robert pushed away his cup, 'I think I'll step out for a bit of a pipe, Mary, says he to I. 'I wish ye good day, ma'am, says he, noddin' his head at Mrs. Maidment.
Maidment had been sleeping in the cave he died there; Captain Gardiner near the remains of the Pioneer, which had been hauled up on the beach, and with which he had formed a slight shelter for himself from the weather. They had kept their journals to the last; and wonderful as it may seem, though storms had raged and rains had fallen, those journals had been preserved.
Here she interrupted to say that she knew three of the names I had mentioned. Then, pointing to a small, upright gravestone about twenty feet away, she added, "And there's one." "Very well," I said, "but don't keep putting me out I've got more names in my mind to tell you. Maidment, Marchmont, Velvin, Burpitt, Winzur, Rideout, Cullurne." Of these she only knew one Rideout.
"My soul, wait thou still upon God, for my hope is in Him. "He truly is my strength and my salvation; He is my defence, so that I shall not fall. "In God is my strength and my glory; the rock of my might, and in God is my trust." Within the cave lay another body, that of Maidment.
Cross sucked in her breath in token of intensifying enjoyment, and turned her head yet a little more on one side. "And so?" prompted she, as Mrs. Domeny paused. "And so, Thursday come, an' we did get a trap off Mr. Sharpe, an' we set off. Brother John was a-standin' on the doorstep on the look-out for us, and he did lead Mrs. Maidment in and sit her down at the head of the table.
Captain Gardiner had left England in the autumn of 1850, with Dr Williams, a surgeon, who went forth as a catechist; Mr Maidment, who held the same office; Erwin, a carpenter; and three Cornish fishermen, named Badcock, Bryant, and Pearce.
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