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"Wait then, and I'll get something on which to write your address." The landlady went inside, closing the door after her, and in spite of herself Billie uttered a little sigh of relief. She felt very much like a reprieved criminal. A moment later the woman reappeared with a pencil and paper and painstakingly wrote down the address Billie gave her.
Each endeavored to make the other responsible for the blood which had been spilled; one tried to cast the public odium upon the other. Meanwhile they were both doing their best to obtain a pardon for the six prisoners who had been reprieved. They did not succeed.
"We have two witnesses for this; and, by heaven, if the one differ from the other in the smallest point, the prisoner may still be reprieved!" Whether the royal observation was heard or not, there was no rejoinder, for at the summoning of the chief Hermano, Don Luis Garcia stood before the assemblage. His appearance excited surprise in many present, and in none more than the prisoner himself.
Presently the look of agonised dismay gave way to such an expression of relief as might come upon the face of a reprieved victim about to be given to the fire, or to the knife that flays. The place of dreams from which he had emerged was like hell, and this was some world of peace that he had not known these many years.
It seems that out of the whole ship only Morgan and those who sat on his side of the table were saved. The accident was probably caused by the carelessness of a gunner. Captain Collier sailed in la Vivon's ship for Jamaica, where the French captain was convicted of piracy in the Admiralty Court, and reprieved by Governor Modyford, but his ship confiscated.
But he had no idea how to handle the unexampled situation with dignity; he realized painfully his own lack of experience, and his over-mastering impulse was to get away while it was still possible to get away. Moreover, he desired intensely to see and hear Marguerite. "Perhaps I had better find out where she is," he absurdly suggested, and departed from the room feeling like a criminal reprieved.
"Every night and all day Sundays," Weary drawled. Miss Satterly frowned him into good behavior and said twice a week would do. Happy Jack slipped out and went home feeling like a reprieved criminal; he even tried to argue himself into the belief that Weary was only loading him and didn't mean a word he said.
But of my clemency, and not because you are a woman, for you yourself have forgotten that in meddling with war, I will only parade you upon the scaffold as a reprieved criminal. Bring hither a cord," called D'Aulnay, "and noose it over this lady's head." Edelwald raged in a hopeless tearing at his bonds.
All shared the same fate, none being left to laugh at the rest. The patriarch, it is true, was exempted, through awe for his high office in the Church, while reverence for advanced years reprieved Prince Tcherkasy, and Tikhon Streshnef was excused out of honor for his services as guardian of the czaritza.
"You're reprieved, West," he announced simply. The desperado staggered to the sled and leaned against it faintly. His huge body swayed. The revulsion was almost too much for him. "I I knowed you couldn't treat an old pardner thataway, Tom," he murmured. Morse took the man out to a fir tree. He carried with him a blanket, a buffalo robe, and a part of the dog harness.
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