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Owen felt a strong inclination to speak to the man Routh, or Dillon, to learn how O'Harrall had behaved towards his prisoners before they were taken on board the Ouzel Galley. With the greatest effrontery, Dillon nodded to him as he approached. "So, Captain Massey, you managed to get away, after all," he said, quite coolly.
"He isn't a Frenchman at all at all, but from the oaths he swore he's Irish all the world over the thunderin' big villain no other than Brian O'Harrall, who has a price on his head. It cost us pretty dear to take him too." Further inquiries convinced Mr Ferris that the supposed French officer was the outlaw who had so long evaded the grasp of justice.
If he's the man I suspect, he may have been prompted by the recollection of the services I rendered him to spare my life, and it may induce him still to act decently towards us." Though these thoughts passed through Captain O'Brien's mind, he did not express them aloud, or tell his friend that he believed the pirate to be any other than the outlawed ruffian, O'Harrall.
He was doubtful for a moment whether he should follow: though brave enough under ordinary circumstances, he felt pretty certain that if such was the case O'Harrall would not scruple to knock him on the head or to blow his brains out; and so he did the next best thing which occurred to him he ran on, intending to make his way to the Ring Tower to give information that the prisoner had escaped; though he fully expected to meet a party in hot pursuit of the fugitive.
The black and the two seamen then, shouldering the chests, followed O'Harrall and Owen, the former conducting them directly inland, passing some groves of cocoa-nut and other trees, and avoiding any of the huts which were scattered about here and there.
O'Harrall advanced and threw himself into a chair, scarcely glancing at the men as he passed them. "I am glad to see you, Captain O'Harrall, for I hope that you will allow me and my companions to quit this place, and we shall be ready to enter into any arrangement you may dictate not to betray its position," said Owen.
Whether or not O'Harrall suspected that his prisoners contemplated trying to make their escape, it was difficult to say; but they found that a hut was put up close to their abode, and that it was occupied by two Spaniards, ill-looking fellows, who seemed to have nothing to do but to sit at the door and smoke all day.
Owen naturally feared that O'Harrall, after his misfortune, would be in a worse temper than before, and was thankful that he did not make his appearance. Pompey accounted for it by informing them that he and all hands were on board the Ouzel Galley, busily employed in fitting her out.
Mammy's watchful eye would effectually present them from doing this, and herein lay their first and chief difficulty. O'Harrall had now been for some time absent. It struck Owen that perhaps the account he had given of the savage character of the inhabitants was to prevent then from leaving the house, and he resolved to try how Mammy would behave should they attempt to go out.
She fancied that, once having found him, they should be able to devise a plan for their escape. Shortly after this, O'Harrall came into the cabin. "You expected the tables to be turned, and that the Ouzel Galley would be captured by yonder man-of-war," he observed, as he stood with his arms folded, leaning carelessly against the bulkhead.
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