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"There's no such house now," replied Philip; "but I have heard that, many years ago, there was a firm of that name." "Impossible! you must be laughing at me. Here is a letter from our captain to his son " "Give it me," cried Philip, seizing the letter. He was about to break the seal, when Schriften snatched it out of his hand and threw it over the lee gunnel.
Schriften still remained on board, but since his last conversation with Amine he had kept aloof, and appeared to avoid both her and Philip; still there was not, as before, any attempt to make the ship's company disaffected, nor did he indulge in his usual taunts and sneers.
There was no alteration in the man's appearance; he showed no marks of declining years; his one eye glared as keenly as ever. Philip started, not only at the sight of the man, but at the reminiscences which his unexpected appearance brought to his mind. It was but for a second, and he was again calm and pensive. "You here again, Schriften?" observed Philip.
I can read futurity, and such must be the destiny of both. Lady, consider well, I must leave you now. To-morrow I will have your answer." Schriften walked away and left Amine to her own reflections.
"Lost but not lost by the pirates no harm there. He! he!" The remark of Schriften was correct. The pirates, imagining that in taking to their boat, the people had carried with them everything that was valuable, instead of firing at the raft, immediately gave chase to the boats.
"Yes, I did!" screamed Schriften; but, as if recovering himself, his scream subsided into his usual giggle, and he added, "but we need not fear her, boys; we've a bit of the true cross on board." Schriften then walked aft as if to avoid being questioned, when he perceived Philip by the mainmast. "So, I'm not the only one curious? he! he!
"I should like to know the whole long and short of the story," said a third. "I can only tell what I've heard. It's a doomed vessel; they were pirates, and cut the captain's throat, I believe." "No! no!" cried Schriften, "the captain is in her now and a villain he was. They say that, like somebody else on board of us now, he left a very pretty wife, and that he was very fond of her."
Although Philip had had little to say to Schriften since the separation from Amine, it was very evident to him and to Krantz, that all the pilot's former bitter feelings had returned. His chuckle, his sarcasms, his "He! he!" were incessant; and his eye was now as maliciously directed to Philip as it was when they first met.
"Philip Vanderdecken," said Schriften, "he! he! I've a letter for you it is from the Company." Philip took the letter, but, previous to opening it, he fixed his eyes upon Schriften. "I thought," said he, "that you were drowned when the ship was wrecked in False Bay. How did you escape?" "How did I escape?" replied Schriften. "Allow me to ask, how did you escape?"
For the indulgences against which Luther protested, see, beside the Editions of Luther's Works, Kapp, Schauplatz des Tetselischen Ablass-Krams, Leipzig, 1720; Sammlung einiger zum päbstlichen Ablass gehörigen Schriften, Leipzig, 1721; Kleine Nachlese zur Erläuterung der Reformationsgeschicte, Leipzig, 1730 and 1733; also Loescher, Vollständige Reformationsacta, I, Leipzig, 1720
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