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Updated: June 18, 2025
Vining crying, 'Lordsakes, we shall all be throttled like Cracky Jones. So in a minute there were none left in the church, save and except Mr. Glennie, with me, Ratsey, and Elzevir Block.
Only after a while Master Ratsey joined me, and sitting down by me, begged me to eat bread and meat that he had brought. Now I had little heart to eat, but took what he gave me to save myself from his importunities, and having once tasted was led by nature to eat all, and was much benefited thereby.
No one at Moonfleet had ever seen the inside of that vault; but Ratsey was told by his father, who was clerk before him, that it underlay half the chancel, and that there were more than a score of Mohunes lying there.
I was too full of my story even to beg his pardon, but began at once to tell him what had happened; and how, by following the hint that Ratsey dropped, I had made out, as I thought, a secret meaning in these verses.
This seemed not very dangerous, for it was likely, from what Ratsey had said, that there was no one with her in the house, and if there was it would be but an old woman, to whom I could pass as a stranger in my disguise, and ask my way to some house in the village.
'Not but what the labourer is worthy of his hire, went on Master Ratsey; 'so spile that little breaker of Schiedam, and send a rummer round to keep off midnight chills. He loved a glass of the good liquor well, and with him 'twas always the same reasoning, namely, to keep off chills; though he chopped the words to suit the season, and now 'twas autumn, now winter, now spring, or summer chills.
'Tut, man, retorted Ratsey testily, 'and if they waked, they would but pull the blankets tight about their ears, and say 'twas Blackbeard piping his crew of lost Mohunes to help him dig for treasure.
And of the Mohune Hospital for that was what the alms-houses were now called Master Glennie was first warden, with fair rooms and a full library, and Master Ratsey head of the Bedesmen.
Mayhap she would make a match for thee if ye were man and woman, and not boy and girl; if she were not rich, and thou not poor and an outlaw; and if she would have thee. It vexed me to hear his banter, and to think how I had let my secret out, so I did not answer, and we sat by the embers for a while without speaking, while the wind still blew through the cave like a funnel. Ratsey spoke first.
So we sat huddled in the corner by the glowing logs, the red light flickering on the cave roof, and showing the lines on Ratsey's face; while the steam rose from his drying clothes. The gale blew as fiercely as ever, but the tide had fallen, and there was not so much spray coming into the cave. Then Ratsey spoke again
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