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Captain Spark looked critically at the rather faint tracing of lines on the yellow sheet. "I'm afraid somebody has been playing a joke on you, or on Captain Obed," he remarked, handing the parchment back, after Bob had told him how he became possessed of it. "A joke?" "Yes. That's a map, sure enough, but no sailor could ever find the island by those directions." "Why not?" "I said he never could.
Parker gulped, choked and then nodded. "Yes," he admitted, faintly. "I I cal'late we be." His sister took a step forward, her arm raised. Captain Obed stepped in front of her. "Just a minute, Hannah! Heave to! Come up into the wind a jiffy. Let's get this thing straight. Kenelm, do you mean " The gentleman addressed seemed to mean very little, just then.
"That ends the fire," said Obed, "and now we've got a hole here which is not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a barn door, but I do not think it will suffice for our friends, the Comanches." All the men turned their attention to the enemy, and, lying on the ground, they took as good aim as the darkness would permit.
"He was talkin' low down, hittin' at men who couldn't hit back, abusin' prisoners, which the same was Obed an' me. He was doin' what I guess you would call tauntin', tellin' of all the things we would have to suffer. He said that they'd get you, too, before mornin' an' that we'd all be hanged as rebels an' traitors to Mexico. He laughed at the way he fooled us.
As the corvette and the Wave neared each other, he threw a shot at us from the boat gun on his topgallant forecastle, as if to ascertain beyond all doubt the extent of our insanity, and whether we were serious in our attempt to weather him and escape. Obed held right on his course, like grim Death.
"That's right, he is, Steve, and we must give him great credit for it, even if his traps fail to catch a thief in the act." "I was just thinking, Max," pursued the other, meditatively, "that it's evident this same Obed must have inherited that strain from a long line of trapper ancestors or progenitors; wouldn't you think so, too?" Max looked at his companion queerly, and smiled as he made reply.
You and Emily and John can, of course, and you must; but I've got to stay here. Some of the boarders will be here for their meals and I can't leave the house alone." Captain Obed uttered a dismayed protest. "Sho!" he exclaimed. "Sho! That's too bad. Why, I counted more on your goin' than Humph! You've just got to go, that's all. Can't Imogene look after the house?"
"Of course, I'll awake you at the first alarm, if the alarm itself doesn't do it. Sleep knits us up for the fray, and a man always wants to be at his best when he goes into battle." "How could a fellow sleep now?" "Only the brave and resolute can do it," replied Obed, cunningly.
"Oh, hateful! Who could be so wicked?" "I met Lippity-Libby at the gate this morning. 'Look here, I said; 'this is a pretty poison you are sowing on your rounds': and I showed him the feathers which young Obed had left with me.
The weather being hazy, Obed who was busy with the captain taking soundings asked me to run below for his glass; and there I almost fell Over Margit, who lay on the cabin floor, her whole body writhing, her hands tightly clenched upon a handkerchief which she had torn to rags. Of course I asked what ailed her, and offered to bring help, medicines, anything. She rose in confusion.
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