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"That's my country!" he raged. "I want to go ashore!" They were quite ready to be rid of the cracked Yankee, and told him so. "And the boats? How about them?" he demanded. "All in the Firth, sir." "Any women lost?" "None, sir." At that, struggling into his clothes, he began to shed gold sovereigns from his ripped money-belt all over the cabin.
Arriving at the bank of the Harood, I retire behind a clump of reeds, and fold my money-belt, full of gold, up in the middle of my clothes, making a compact bundle, with my gossamer rubber wrapped around the outside.
His money-belt round his waist, the contents of his pockets, his watch, everything had been left untouched. "No," thought Jack, "I don't know what their game was, but it was a lot bigger thing than just collaring what I had about me. However, it's lucky my money's left. It's bound to be useful even in the jungle.
I came close to him and, looking as unconcerned as I could, told him in an undertone that I had found the locker broken open and the money-belt gone. Last evening it was still there. "What did you want to do with it?" he asked me, trembling violently. "Put it round my waist, of course," I answered, amazed to hear his teeth chattering. "Cursed gold!" he muttered.
With these words he proceeded to unfasten his vest, and from beneath it drew a water-proof bag of thin rubber, which was tightly fastened with twine, and enclosed in a money-belt of chamois-skins. "It is all there but ten thousand dollars, and that he had a right to take," said he. "What do you mean?" asked Regnar, with a softened look and glistening eyes.
I had nearly lost my liberty and even my life, I had lost my ship, a money-belt full of gold, I had lost my companions, had parted from my friend; my occupation, my only link with life, my touch with the sea, my cap and jacket were gone—but a small penknife and a latchkey had never parted company with me. With the latchkey I opened the door of refuge.
But where ye come from we might talk of that." And then, unhappily, he observed me standing in my corner, and packed me off to the galley to get supper for the gentleman. I lost no time, I promise you; and when I came back into the round-house, I found the gentleman had taken a money-belt from about his waist, and poured out a guinea or two upon the table.
"'Jeff, says this pork esthete, 'it ain't money; it's sentiment with me. "'Seven hundred, says I. "'Make it eight hundred, says Rufe, 'and I'll crush the sentiment out of my heart. "I went under my clothes for my money-belt, and counted him out forty twenty-dollar gold certificates. "'I'll just take him into my own room, says I, 'and lock him up till after breakfast.
I promised I would "work it" with the captain, and Pallou put out his brawny hand the hand that "drove it home into Frenchy's throat" and grasped mine in silence. Then he lifted his jacket and showed me his money-belt, filled. "I don't want money," I said. "If you have told me the whole story, I would help any man in such a fix as you."
Having satisfied himself that it was impossible for any one to see into the room, either through the keyhole or by means of the window, he partially disrobed, and, when he had done so, unbuckled from round his waist a broad leather money-belt. Seating himself on the bed once more he unfastened the strap of the pocket, and dribbled the contents on to the bed.
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