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There's Jeremy up there in the round-house with a back that's every colour of the rainbow; and the poor lad'll not be himself again for a month. And if it hadn't been for the Spaniards maybe it's dead he'd be by now, and maybe myself with him." Hagthorpe lounged forward. He was a fairly tall, vigorous man with a clear-cut, attractive face which in itself announced his breeding.
With an affrighted look he glanced towards the round-house on deck, where the captain was sleeping, and motioned me to come as far from it as possible. "I have run every risk, senhor, to come and warn you of danger, in the hope that you will be lenient to us," he began. "That man in there, senhor, is the very devil. Don't you recollect him? You took him in the Andorinha, off the Havannah.
Ten minutes later he came into the round-house and asked the night foreman where his engine was. "Well," said the foreman, "we haven't got your engine yet," and the boy's chin dropped down and rested upon his new blue blouse. "I guess we'll have to send you out on one of the company's engines this trip." There was a great roar of laughter from the wiping gang and Bennie looked embarrassed.
And now, Quilt," he continued, addressing the janizary, who approached him with the horse, "fly to St. Giles's round-house, and if, through the agency of that treacherous scoundrel, Terry O'Flaherty, whom I've put in my Black List, old Wood should have found his way there, and have been detained by Sharpies as I directed, you may release him.
There was no one on the roof of the round-house, but a broken stump where the cross had been. This was the story the yellow Stranger told to the Coroner. And the Coroner listened and asked: "Can you account for conduct of deceased? Had he been drinking that evening?" "He had," answered the witness, and for a moment, while the Coroner took a note, it seemed he had said all.
Cowels had given him the gloves he took her hand to say good-bye, and the wife of one of the new men, who saw it, said afterwards that he held it longer than was necessary, just to say good-bye. When Dan reached the round-house Bennie was up on top of the old engine oiling the bell. What would an engine without a bell be to a boy?
I assured him that it was not through desire that I was in his town; that the only reason I was there was that the train had stopped there; and that he wouldn't see me for smoke the way I'd get out of his darn town. While he went to interview the shacks, I jumped back into the cab. The kid was awake and rubbing his eyes. I told him the news and advised him to ride the engine into the round-house.
"There bean't a letter that bothers him," cried Abel, triumphantly, to the no less triumphant foster-mother. Jan had, indeed, gone through the whole alphabet, with the utmost ease and self-confidence; but his remembrance of the names of the letters he drew so readily proved to be far less perfect than his representations of them on the floor of the round-house.
"I'll read the Naval Law; The man who dares to burn A round-house, not the Enemy's, A traitor's fate shall learn. "And if a man there be, Who does this traitor know, And keeps it to himself, He shall suffer death also! "'Tis well, then, to tell, then, Who did this grievous ill; And, d n him, I will hang him, So help me God! I will!"
In "Pandora's Box," as Captain Edwards' round-house came to be called, the fourteen prisoners suffered cruel torture, and nothing can justify the manner in which they were treated.
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