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They have shot her and Bungo." She burst again into convulsive sobbing. "Dead! But are you sure quite sure?" said Sam. "Quite. I saw their brains scattered on the wall. Oh, Meerta! She ended in a low wail, as though her heart were broken. "Now, boys," said Johnson, who had hitherto maintained silence, "we must go to work an' try to cut out the pirate-ship.
They had not gone a hundred yards when they were arrested by hearing a rustling in the bushes and the sound of hasty footsteps. Next instant Letta was seen running towards them, with glaring eyes and streaming hair. She sprang into Robin's arms with a convulsive sob, and hid her white face on his breast. "Speak, Letta, dear child! Are you hurt?" "No, O no; but Meerta, darling Meerta, she is dead!
"Letta," said Robin, settling the child more comfortably on his knee an attention which she received with a sigh of deep contentment, "are the people here kind to you?" "Yes, very kind. Old Meerta is as kind to me almost as mamma used to be, but I don't love her so much not nearly so much, and blind Bungo is a dear old man." "That's nice. And the others are they kind to you?" "What others?
I don't even know your mother's name, or the place where you were taken from. By the way, an idea has just occurred to me. Have you any clothes at the cave?" "Of course I have," answered Letta, with a merry laugh. "Yes; but I mean the clothes that you had on when you first came here." "I don't know; Meerta knows. Why?" "Because your name may be marked on them. Come, let us go back at once and see.
Indeed, a considerable time elapsed before they would admit to themselves that there was a possibility of such a fate, although they knew, both from Meerta and Letta, that no ship of any kind, save that of the pirates, had been seen for the last eighteen months, and the few sails that did chance to appear, were merely seen for a few hours like sea-gulls on the horizon, from which they arose and into which they vanished.
"Don't know." "Now, look here, you old hag," said the pirate, drawing a pistol from his belt and levelling it, "tell the truth about that girl, else I'll scatter your brains on the floor. Where has she gone to?" "Don't know," repeated Meerta, with a look of calm indifference, as she took up a tankard and wiped it out with a cloth. The man steadied the pistol and pressed the trigger.
Of course Robin had prepared the inhabitants of the garden for the arrival of his friends. He had also learned that the pirates, in the hurry of departure, had not only left everything lying about, but had left the key of their treasure-cave in the lock. Old Meerta offered to show him the contents, but Robin determined to await the arrival of his friends before examining the place.
It was the habit of Robin and his friends at this time, the weather being extremely fine and cool, to sit at the mouth of their cavern of an evening, chatting about the events of the day, or the prospects of the future, or the experiences of the past, while old Meerta busied herself preparing supper over a fire kindled on the ground.
This is the road," she added, as she took Robin by the hand; "and you must be very careful how you go, else you'll fall and hurt yourselves." Great was the amazement, and not slight the alarm of Meerta, when she beheld her little charge thus piloting two strangers down the hill.
Little Letta enjoyed their looks quite as much as Meerta. "Haven't we got lots of pretty things here?" she said, looking up into Robin's face. "Yes, little one, wonderful!" Robin revived sufficiently to make this reply and to glance at Sam, Slagg, and Stumps, who returned the glance. Then he relapsed.
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