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Updated: June 16, 2025
It was interesting to observe the monkey-like countenance of old Meerta as she watched the effect produced on her visitors, her little black eyes sparkling in the lamp-light more brightly than the finest gems there; and not less interesting was it to note the half-amused, more than half-amazed, and partially imbecile gaze of the still silent visitors.
I remember once, when I was clerk at a country railroad station and had to work the telegraph, an old woman came into the ticket office in a state of wild despair. She was about the size and shape of Meerta there, but with about an inch and a half more nose, and two or three ounces less brain. "`What's wrong, madam? I asked, feeling quite sorry for the poor old thing.
"What think you, boys," said Sam suddenly, "shall we go round to the harbour, surprise and kill the guard, seize the pirate-ship, up anchor and leave these villains to enjoy themselves as best they may?" "What! and leave Letta, not to mention Meerta and Bungo, behind us? Never!" "I forgot them for the moment," said Sam. "No, we can't do that."
For the first few days of their stay on what they styled Pirate Island, our castaways were too much taken up with the wondrous and varied contents of the robbers' cave, and the information Meerta and Letta had to give, to pay much regard to the island itself, or the prospect they had of quitting it.
"If that's so," said Slagg, "then I claim Letta for my share, and you, Johnson, can have your pick of Meerta and blind Bungo." "Nay, Letta is mine, because I was the first to discover her," said Robin. "Whom will you go with, Letta?" "With you, of course," replied the child quite earnestly. "Haven't you promised to take me back to mamma?"
"Don't be afraid, little one," said the latter, "he's only angry with the bad men that went away this morning. Are there any of them still remaining here?" "What, in the caves?" "Ay, in the caves or anywhere?" "No they're all away. Nobody left but me and Meerta and blind Bungo." "Is it a long time since you came here?"
Nay, old Meerta even dropped a tear or two quietly to their memory, for, as she remarked, by way of explanation or excuse, "dey wasn't all so bad as each oder."
"It seems to me, Johnson," said Robin, "that in strict justice the booty belongs to Letta, Meerta, and blind Bungo, as the natural heirs o' the pirates." "But they're not the heirs, they are part of the booty," said the seaman, "and, as sitch, falls to be divided among us."
While she was yet describing her feelings on arrival, a voice shouting Letta was heard, and she instantly struggled from Robin's knee. "O let me go!" she cried. "It's Meerta calling me, and I never let her call twice." "Why? Would she be angry?" "No, but she would be sorry. Do let me go!" "But won't you let us go too?" asked Sam. "O yes, if you want to come.
"Me tink so!" replied Meerta, with an intelligent nod. "On'y us t'ree here. All de pyrits gone away. Dem sinners on'y come here for a feed p'r'aps for leetil poodre. Soon go away."
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