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Updated: June 15, 2025
Will you unbind me if I promise to remain quiet?" "Wid pleasure," said the negro cheerfully, as his glistening teeth showed themselves. "You promise to wait here till I come for you?" "I promise." "An' you promise not to shout?" "I do." In a moment the rope was cast off, and Rosco was free. Then Ebony, bidding him keep up his heart, glided out of the cavern and left him in profound darkness.
As he did so, the madman sprang towards him, but he was checked by the chains which bound him, and fell heavily on the deck. Returning to the cabin, Rosco went to a locker and took out a case bottle, from which he poured half a tumbler of brandy and drank it. Then he summoned the man who had been appointed his second in command.
I only heard them shout `Hoist the black flag! when they seized me; but that does not prove that they did hoist it, or that Rosco agreed to do so. They were only mutineers, you see, and not hardened villains." "Hardened enough when they threw you overboard, my son," returned poor little Madame Zeppa, with a sob.
To overcome this difficulty the heels of the feet were made to project almost as much behind as the toes did in front somewhat after the pattern of Ebony's pedal arrangements, as Rosco remarked when they were being fitted on for another trial.
Richard Rosco formed the centre of that dance the sun, as it were, of the system round which the dusky host revolved. But he did not join in the celebration, for he was bound firmly to a stake set up in the ground, and could not move hand or foot.
The reminder was in time to check an unwise impulse on the mate's part. "Now," continued Rosco, assuming a more serious tone, "I have brought you here for a last conversation. You have long desired to command that vessel, and I have long desired to resign the command. We shall both have our desires gratified this day.
"It does not, however, seem to be a way of escape for me," said the pirate, letting himself sink back on his couch with a weary sigh. "Yes, it is! yes, it is!" exclaimed Zeppa eagerly, as he got upon the familiar theme; "the offer is to the chief of sinners, `Whosoever will, `Turn ye, turn ye, for why will ye die?" "Tell me about it" said Rosco faintly, as the other paused.
Rosco saw at once the absurdity of giving way to anger, and restrained himself. "But you cannot restrain my voice, Ebony," he continued, "and I promise you that I will shout till I am heard." "Shout away, massa, much as you please. Bu'st you's lungs if you like, for you's in de bow'ls ob de hill here." Rosco felt that he was in the negro's powers and remained silent.
"Hallo! where are you?" cried the madman. Then, receiving no answer, he burst into a long, loud fit of laughter, which seemed to freeze the very marrow in the pirate's bones. "Ha! ha!" he shouted, again and again, "I knew you were a dream, I felt sure of it ha! ha! and now this proves it. And I'm glad you were a dream, for I did not want to kill you, Rosco, though I thought it my duty to do so.
There was a difference in it also this time it terminated in a wild, fiendish fit of laughter, which caused Rosco to shrink back appalled; for now he knew that he confronted a maniac! For some minutes the madman and the pirate sat gazing at each other in silent horror. Then the latter rose hastily and turned to leave the hold.
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