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Updated: June 23, 2025
The incident which we have just related caused Don Diego to entertain such kindly feelings towards Will Osten, that he not only invited him to stay at his house with his companions during their residence in Tacames, but insisted on his accepting a very large fee for the service he had rendered him.
In some places the stream was wide, in others very narrow, fringed along the banks with the most luxuriant timber and brushwood, in which the concert kept up by birds and beasts was constant, but not disagreeable to the ears of such enthusiastic sportsmen as Will Osten, Larry O'Hale, and Bunco.
Here, the fire at the foot of the tree having been replenished, each man sought and found repose. It was observed that Larry O'Hale made a large soft couch below the tree on the ground. "You're not going to sleep there, Larry?" said Will Osten, on observing what he was about. "Why, the tigers will be picking your bones before morning if you do." "Och!
It would be strange indeed were it otherwise, but I have a book here which explains many of these mysteries, and shows us how we ought to regard those which it does not explain." Here Will Osten drew a small volume from the breast-pocket of his coat. "The Bible?" said the trapper. "Part of it at all events," said Will. "It is the New Testament. Come, let us examine it a little."
Will Osten addressed him in English, and, to his surprise as well as gratification, the Spaniard replied in the same tongue, which he spoke, however, in a most remarkable way, having learned it chiefly from the skippers of those vessels that touched at the port. "If you vill come to meen house you vill grub there."
To say that poor O'Hale wrung his hands, and wished bad luck to fightin' in general, and to himself in particular, gives but a feeble idea of the distress of his mind at this untoward event. "D'ye think I've kilt him intirely, doctor dear?" he asked of Will Osten, who was on his knees beside the fallen chief examining his hurt. "No, not quite. See, he breathes a little.
Ben and Bunco were not in sight, but he observed Will Osten in hot pursuit of a large wolf. With a wild cheer, he made after him, and, by making a detour, came in front of the wolf, and turned it. Will fired at it quite close, but missed. Larry, who had reloaded, also fired and missed.
"At sea once more!" said Will Osten in a meditative mood. Our hero made this remark one night to himself, which was overheard and replied to by his friend, Captain Dall, in a manner that surprised him.
At length, after two days, the gale began to abate, and the sea to go down. "It was sharp while it lasted, captain, but it seems to have done us little harm," said Will Osten, on the evening of the second day. "True," said the captain heartily; "we'll soon repair damages and make all snug. Is there much water in the hold, Mr Cupples?" The mate answered gloomily that there was a good deal.
But after kissing Missy she immediately turned to him. "At last I have found you," she said. After greeting his sister, Nekhludoff entered into conversation with Missy, who told him that their house had burned down, necessitating their removal to her aunt's. Osten began to relate a droll anecdote anent the fire.
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