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"And longer too," replied Jack; "we must not let the affair get wind even on shore. We must not recover quickly, but still appear to recover. Don Rebiera and his wife must be deceived. I have a plot in my head, but I cannot work it out clear till I see Mesty." Don Philip now came in.
"No, Massa Gascoigne," replied Mesty, "I try it myself, by-and-bye. Now what we do?" "I must give you the order for the thousand dollars, Mesty," replied Jack. "The rascal here writes to me that for that sum, he will consent not only not to oppose me, but agrees to assist my cause; but the great question is, whether he will keep his word with you, Mesty; if not, I shall lose my money.
Whereupon the boatswain administered several smart cuts with his rattan upon the boy, proving that it was quite as well that he had put on his trousers before he came on deck. "There," said Mr Biggs, "is a lesson for you, you scamp and, Mr Easy, it is a lesson for you also," continued the boatswain, walking away with a most consequential air. "Murder Irish!" said Mesty "how him cut caper.
Oh, no; not leave the house, Jack. I have no son but you. Then do as you please but you will not send away my butler he escaped hanging last assizes on an undoubted charge of murder? I selected him on purpose, and must have him cured, and shown as a proof of a wonderful machine I have invented." "Mesty," said Jack, "get my pistols ready for to-morrow morning, and your own too do you hear?
I hide myself all day and come in at night, and now, Massa Easy, you ab haf de whole truth and you ab your tousand dollars and you ab got rid of de rascal friar and de d n galley-slave, Don Silvio." "Tell them all this, Ned," said Jack, who, whilst Gascoigne was so employed, talked with Mesty.
"Then Mesty, it appears to me that we have a better chance of finding our way back to Gibraltar; for you know the land was on our left side all the way coming up the Mediterranean; and if we keep it, as it is now, on our right, we shall get back again along the coast."
And Mesty took up the coils of rope about the mizzen-mast, and threw them upon deck, one after another, making all the noise possible. In a short time, there was a violent pull of a bell at the cabin-door, and in a minute afterwards a man in his shirt came up the cabin-hatchway, who was immediately secured. "Dis de captain's servant," said Mesty, "he come say no make such d -d noise.
"After all," thought Jack, "Mesty is about as good a Christian as most people." "What that?" cried Mesty, looking out of the cabin window "Ah! damn drunken dogs they set fire to tent." Jack looked, and perceived that the tent on shore was in flames. "I tink these cold nights cool their courage any how," observed Mesty "Massa Easy, you see they soon ask permission to come on board."
"I tell what better ting, Massa Easy; we go lock up all de wine, and sarve out so much, and no more. I go do it at once, 'fore they wake up." Mesty went down, leaving Jack on deck to his meditations. "I am not sure," thought Jack, "that I have done a very wise thing. Here I am with a parcel of fellows who have no respect for the articles of war, and who get as drunk as David's sow.
"Make enquiries when he went out," said Jack. "I hope no accident has happened," observed Mr Hanson; "but his company has lately been very strange." "Nobody see him go out, sar, last night," reported Mesty. "Very likely he is in his study," observed Dr Middleton; "he may have remained all night, fast asleep, by his wonderful invention." "I'll go and see," replied Jack.
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