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It almost seemed as if his guilty desire had passed into the weapons and intensified the laws of gravitation they came to the rock with such a clatter. "That will do. Now, two paces step back, march! Splendid. Why, Redford, I had no idea you were so well up in your drill," said Rosco, stepping to the spot beside the pistols, which the mate had just vacated.
"I fear you won't get the broken law to look at it in that light, Ebony." "Broken law! what does I care for de broken law? But tell me, massa, hab you make up you's mind to gib youself up?" "I have," returned Rosco sadly. "Quite sure an' sartin'?" "Quite," returned Rosco, with a faint smile at the poor negro's persistency. "Well, den, you come an' hab a last ride on my back.
Think of these and other "great" men, and reflect that it is written, "He who rules his own spirit" is greater than they. Yes, the human spirit is difficult to deal with, and uncomfortably explosive. At least so Richard Rosco found it when, towards the close of the day on which his enemy chased him into the dismal swamp, he sat down on a gnarled root and began to reflect.
Beside him, and not less absorbed, stood his valiant and amiable son; while around, in various attitudes, sat or stood the chiefs Tomeo and Buttchee, Rosco and Ebony, Ongoloo and Wapoota, and little Lippy with her mother! But the native missionary was not there.
In less than half-an-hour he returned with several cocoa-nuts and other fruits, of which Rosco partook with an avidity that told its own tale. "Now," said Zeppa, rising, when Rosco had finished, "have you had enough?" "No," said the pirate, quickly, "not half enough. Go, like a good fellow, and fetch me more." Zeppa rose at once and went away.
"Redford," he said, assuming, by a mighty effort of self-restraint a calm tone and manner, "you told me once of a solitary island lying a long way to the south of the Fiji group. D'you think you could lay our course for it?" "I'm sure I could, sir; but it is very much out of the way of commerce, and " "There is much sandal-wood on it, is there not?" asked Rosco, interrupting him.
"You would be better employed getting things ready for to-morrow's journey than casting imputations on our hospitable friends." "Dar's not'ing to git ready, massa," returned the negro. "Eberyting's prepared to start arter breakfust." "That's well, and I am sure the change to the seashore will do you good, father, as well as Rosco. You've both been too long here.
Soon the sails were spread, the anchor weighed, the coral reef passed, and the good ship was leaping merrily over the sea in pursuit of the pirate, while Ebony was seated on the straw beside Rosco, expanding his mouth to an extent that it had never reached before, and causing the cavern to ring with uproarious laughter.
Just now you require surgical assistance. But how did you come here? and what do you mean by saying that you ran away from your ship?" Rosco in reply gave a brief but connected narrative of his career during the past three years, in which he made no attempt to exculpate himself, but, on the contrary, confessed his guilt and admitted his desert of death.
"Indeed it is true," continued Rosco hurriedly. "I had no intention of letting murder be done. I would not even slay the captain who has used me so ill. I would give my life if I could alter it now but I cannot." "Hah!" gasped Zeppa again, still keeping his eyes fixed on Rosco's face. "Don't look at me that way," pleaded the pirate, "as if I had done the deed. You know I didn't. I swear I didn't!
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