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He said this with a smile which disarmed all suspicion. In fact, it was impossible to take offence with the man." But at this point Plinny, frightened perhaps at the warnings of apoplexy in Captain Branscome's face, laid a hand gently on Miss Belcher's arm. "Are we treating our good friend quite fairly?" she asked. Miss Belcher glanced at her and broke into a ringing laugh. "You dear creature!
Goodfellow, and yes, and Harry, too, I suppose are to be the Red Rovers and scour the Spanish Main. All right; only you don't look it, exactly." "But is not that half the battle?" urged the indomitable Plinny. "They'll be so much the less likely to suspect us." "They whoever they may be will certainly be so far deluded."
I had told Captain Branscome yesterday that I would not put up with it; and though I stood in far greater awe of Dr. Beauregard than of the Captain, I felt none the less mutinous now. Plinny, who in moments of agitation invariably had recourse to some familiar work for a sedative, was on her knees repacking the luncheon-baskets. Her back was turned to me, and from her I glanced towards Mr.
Nay worse, ma'am, worse his last thought may have been that I was the traitor that the blow he took was from the hand he had filled with gold that I had returned to kill him in his blindness!" Captain Branscome bowed his head upon his hands. I saw Plinny who all this while had sat silent, content to listen rise, her face twitching, and put out a hand to touch the captain's shoulder.
But, my good soul" she turned on Plinny "if 'drunk and incapable' isn't written over the whole of that seminary, you may call me a Dutchwoman!" "There's a point or so clear enough," she announced, after a pause, when I had finished my story. "We must placard the whole country with a description of that prisoner chap Glass," said Mr.
Goodfellow sat before a plate of bread and cream, he helped himself to a mass of veal pie fit for a giant, and before attacking it drained a tankard of cider at a single pull, while he nodded over the rim to Captain Branscome, to whom Plinny introduced him.
Plinny, not understanding in the least, opened wide eyes upon him. His tone seemed to ask for her pity. "Yes, yes. I have sought hard for pleasure and grudged no price for it; but the stuff I bought was all flash and sham like this fool's diamonds flash and sham, and the end of it weariness. Well, there is money left.
The rest of us that is to say, Miss Belcher, Captain Branscome, and I under I know not what compulsion, followed and came to a halt a few paces behind him. Standing so, I felt, rather than saw, that Plinny and Mr. Goodfellow, attracted by the report of the pistol, were peering at us over the ridge of rocks on the right. "You fool!" Dr.
Jack Rogers had relieved me at the helm, and with the Captain's permission I had stepped below to the saloon, where Plinny was waiting to give me breakfast, and persuaded the good soul not only to let me carry it on deck and eat it there, but to postpone washing-up for a while and accompany me. To this she would by no means consent until I had brought her the Captain's leave.
I had started with full intent to assert myself, and yes, I was much obliged to Mr. Rogers, but this question between me and Branscome had best be settled, though it meant open mutiny. I felt pretty sure that Miss Belcher would support the tyrant; almost equally sure that Plinny would acquiesce, though her sympathy went with me; and strangely enough, and unjustly, I felt the angrier with Plinny.
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