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"I can't say that, but there's a poor, innocent young maid gone off with him, one Salterne's daughter." "Rose Salterne, the mayor's daughter, the Rose of Torridge?" "That's her. Bless your dear soul, what ails you?" Amyas had dropped back in his seat as if he had been shot; but he recovered himself, and next morning started for Bideford. The story was true.
Leger, who was a sensible man enough, tried in vain to persuade him that the fault was not his at all; that the two must have been attached to each other long before the quarrel; that it must have ended so, sooner or later; that old Salterne's harshness, rather than Cary's wrath, had hastened the catastrophe; and finally, that the Rose and her fortunes were, now that she had eloped with a Spaniard, not worth troubling their heads about.
You must know a Spanish captain, a prisoner " "What, the one I sent home from Smerwick?" "You sent? Mercy on us! Then, perhaps, you've heard " "How can I have heard? What?" "That he's gone off, the villain?" "Without paying his ransom?" "I can't say that; but there's a poor innocent young maid gone off with him, one Salterne's daughter the Popish serpent!"
"Fill my men's stomachs for them, and never mind mine. It's market-day, is it not? Send out, and see whether Mr. Cary is still in town;" and Amyas strode out, and along the quay to Bridgeland Street, and knocked at Mr. Salterne's door. Salterne himself opened it, with his usual stern courtesy. "I saw you coming up the street, sir. I have been expecting this honor from you for some time past.
Amyas went back and told Cary, bidding him take half of Salterne's gift: but Cary swore a great oath that he would have none of it. "Heir of Clovelly, Amyas, and want to rob you? I who have lost nothing, you who have lost a brother! God forbid that I should ever touch a farthing beyond my original share!" That evening a messenger from Bideford came running breathless up to Burrough Court.
The poor pedagogue, thus cunningly caught in his own trap, stood trembling before his patron, who, as hereditary head of the Bridge Trust, which endowed the school and the rest of the Bideford charities, could, by a turn of his finger, sweep him forth with the besom of destruction; and he gasped with terror as Sir Richard went on "Therefore, mind you, Sir Schoolmaster, unless you shall promise me never to hint word of what has passed between us two, and that neither you nor yours shall henceforth carry tales of my godson, or speak his name within a day's march of Mistress Salterne's, look to it, if I do not "
Salterne's parlor being nearest to him, still remained his most common haunt; where, while he discoursed for hours about "Antres vast and deserts idle, And of the cannibals that each other eat, Of Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders,"
He had lingered in the passage, hovering around the fragrant smell; and, once there he could not help hearing what passed inside, till Rose Salterne's name fell on his ear. And now behold him brought in red-handed to judgment, not without a kick or two from the wrathful foot of Amyas Leigh. "What business have I here?" said Jack, making answer fiercely, amid much puffing and blowing.
What they found, of gold and silver, jewels, and merchandise, will interest no readers. Suffice it to say, that there was enough there, with the other treasure, to make Amyas rich for life, after all claims of Cary's and the crew, not forgetting Mr. Salterne's third, as owner of the ship, had been paid off.
The people call it Wingandacoa; but we, after her majesty, Virginia." "You have been there, then?" "The year before last, lad; and left there Ralf Lane, Amadas, and some twenty gentlemen, and ninety men, and, moreover, some money of my own, and some of old Will Salterne's, which neither of us will ever see again.
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