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Updated: May 25, 2025
Cheditafa could not find him in any of the places where he ought to have been, so he must be out of doors somewhere, and Cheditafa went to look for him. This was the first time that Cheditafa had gone into the streets alone at night since the Rackbird incident in the Tuileries Gardens.
When a rope had been cast to Mok, and he had been hauled up the side, the Captain gave orders to start ahead, and rushed to the cabin where he had left Edna; but it was not during that brief interval of thankfulness that he heard how she had recognized the Rackbird, Banker, on the pirate ship, and how she had fired at him every time he had shown himself.
He was a good penman, this Rackbird, he was clever in many ways, and he could imitate handwriting very well, and he set himself to work to address an envelope in the handwriting of Raminez. For some time he debated within himself as to what title he should use in addressing the lady.
It is sufficient to state that he was ultimately able to prove that the Rackbird chief known as Raminez was, in reality, Tomaso Blanquotè, that he had perished on the coast of Peru, and that he, the professor, was legal heir to the Blanquotè estates.
These and other bits of news about the Rackbirds had been told by one of the band who had escaped to Panama after the murder of the captain, fearing that his own talents for baseness did not reach the average necessary for a Rackbird. When he had made his landing from the wreck, Captain Horn never gave a thought to the existence of this band of scoundrels.
He would go to the police office early the next morning and look into this matter. He did not think that it would be necessary for Edna to know anything about it, except that the Rackbird had been arrested and she need no longer fear him. When Ralph reached the police station, the next day, he found there the portier of the hotel, together with Cheditafa and Mok.
He had been greatly troubled when his mistress had gone to the Gardens the first time not because there was anything strange in that, for any lady might like to walk in such a beautiful place, but because she was alone, and, with a Rackbird in Paris, his lady ought never to be alone. She had come out safely, and he had breathed again, and now, now she wanted to go back!
"I don't think we ought to have such a fellow going about freely on board." "I am not afraid he will hurt any of us," said the captain, "and I am sure he will not corrupt the negroes. They hate him. It is easy to see that." "Yes," said Burke, with a laugh. "They think he is a Rackbird, and it is just as well to let them keep on thinking so."
He knew him for a Rackbird of the Rackbirds as the cruel, black-eyed savage who had beaten him, trodden upon him, and almost crushed the soul out of him, in that far-away camp by the sea.
To hear that a real, live Rackbird was in Paris, that this outlaw had threatened his sister, that the police had been watching for him, that he had sworn to kill Cheditafa, and that night had tried to do it, amazed him beyond measure. At last he gave up trying to conjecture what it meant. It was foolish to waste his thoughts in that way. To-morrow he must find out.
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