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Updated: May 2, 2025
They bore away the lithe corpse into the forest, and buried it under soft moss and virgin mould; and so the fair clay was transfigured into fairer flowers, and the poor, gentle, untaught spirit returned to God who gave it. And then Amyas went sadly and silently back again, and Parracombe walked after him, like one who walks in sleep.
He, of course, had no mind for so rigorous a method: he both needed the men, and he had no malice against them, for the one, Ebsworthy, was a plain, honest, happy-go-lucky sailor, and as good a hand as there was in the crew; and the other was that same ne'er-do-weel Will Parracombe, his old schoolfellow, who had been tempted by the gipsy-Jesuit at Appledore, and resisting that bait, had made a very fair seaman.
Stay here and pray to God to make you, and me too, wiser men." And so Amyas departed. He had come out stern and proud; but he came back again like a little child. Three days after Parracombe was dead.
Take that fair maid behind you there to wife; pitch here with us; and see if you are not happier in one day than ever you were in all your life before." "You are drunk, sirrah! William Parracombe! Will you speak to me, or shall I heave you into the stream to sober you?" "Who calls William Parracombe?" answered a sleepy voice. "I, fool! your captain." "I am not William Parracombe.
Poor Will Parracombe! he was born a few centuries too early. Had he but lived now, he might have published a volume or two of poetry, and then settled down on the staff of a newspaper.
"There's snow coming," Segerson muttered, as he turned up his coat collar. "It won't do any harm," she answered. "The earth lies warm under it." The lights of Parracombe, precipitous and unexpected, were like flecks in the sky, wiped out by a sudden driving storm of sleet. A little while later they cantered up the avenue to Woolhanger and Jane slipped from her horse with a little sigh of relief.
Ebsworthy broke the silence, half reproachfully, half trying to bluster away the coming storm. "Well, noble captain, so you've hunted out us poor fellows; and want to drag us back again in a halter, I suppose?" "I came to look for Christians, and I find heathens; for men, and I find swine. I shall leave the heathens to their wilderness, and the swine to their trough. Parracombe!"
At the sight of the prophetess the women wavered, and Amyas, putting on as gentle a face as he could, stepped forward, assuring them in his best Indian that he would harm no one. "Ebsworthy! Parracombe! Are you grown such savages already, that you have forgotten your captain? Stand up, men, and salute!"
But he knew better: still smarting from the effects of a similar haste in the Newfoundland adventure, he had determined to take none but picked men; and by dint of labor he obtained them. Only one scapegrace did he take into his crew, named Parracombe; and by that scapegrace hangs a tale.
There was evidently a mystery somewhere: but nothing could be proved; the landlady was dismissed with a reprimand, and Amyas soon forgot the whole matter, after rating Parracombe soundly. And Salvation Yeo? Salvation was almost wild for a few days, at the sudden prospect of going in search of his little maid, and of fighting Spaniards once more before he died.
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