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Updated: May 29, 2025
Not far from the gun at which I was serving I saw Saull Ley. Once he had disappeared, and I thought he had been wounded, but when the firing ceased he had come back to his gun. He had evidently attempted the same trick a second time, when we were once more unexpectedly brought into action, for a couple of men with rope's ends were driving him back to his station.
"All I desire, sir, is, that I may be freed from the imputation cast on me, and that, thanks to your consideration in calling witnesses to hear this poor man's dying confession, will, I am sure, be done." "Rest assured of that," remarked the chaplain. "And now I would say a few words to Saull Ley.
"He's one who has been skulking his duty ever since he came on board. I'd rather not speak his name." The captain shook his head, and made a sign to the boatswain to proceed. "Well, if I must tell," cried out the man, Saull Ley by name, "the thief is Will Weatherhelm." I almost fainted when I heard the accusation, and I am sure that I must have looked as guilty as if I had committed the theft.
"That poor wretch exonerates you from the charge he made against you, and begged to set you that he might ask your forgiveness." I drew near the hammock, and in the features of the dying man I recognised those of Saull Ley. "Weatherhelm, I'm a great villain, I know I am," he cried out as soon as he saw me. "There's a greater, though, and he put me up to it.
They'll tell you; they'll prove I am innocent." The theft had been committed on the purser's stores. Some tobacco and sugar and some other things had been stolen. Now Saull Ley, the accused, had been seen coming out of the store-room on one occasion when the purser's clerk had left the keys in the door for a short time and gone away.
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