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He had hardly made this answer, when Philip, with Amine, came out of the cabin, and walked up to where the seamen were crowded round the man; the seamen retreated so as to make an opening, when Philip and Amine, to their astonishment and horror, recognised their old acquaintance, one-eyed pilot Schriften. "He! he! Captain Vanderdecken I believe glad to see you in command, and you too, fair lady."
"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.
Without the relic it is not to be accomplished. It were a kindness, then, to take it from him." Amine answered not, for she was lost in thought. "Lady," continued Schriften, after a time, "I wish you well. For your husband I care not, yet do I wish him no harm.
For a short time he paused on his oars, to regain his breath, when Schriften rose up and took his seat in the stern sheets of the boat. "You may pull and pull, Philip Vanderdecken," observed Schriften; "but you will not gain that ship no, no, that cannot be we may have a long cruise together, but you will be as far from your object at the end of it, as you are now at the commencement.
He! he!" cried Schriften. Hardly had he said the words when a tremendous explosion took place, and the air was filled with large stones, which flew and fell in every direction, killing and maiming hundreds. It was the factory which had blown up, for in its vaults there was a large quantity of gunpowder, to which the fire had communicated. "So ends that scheme, Mynheer Vanderdecken.
"The Phantom Ship the Flying Dutchman," shrieked Schriften; "I told you so, Philip Vanderdecken; there is your father he, he!" Philip's eyes had remained fixed on the vessel; he perceived that they were lowering down a boat from her quarter. "It is possible," thought he, "I shall now be permitted!" and Philip put his hand into his bosom and grasped the relic.
The seamen, however, became clamorous; one portion were for throwing Schriften overboard, the other for throwing Philip; at last, the point was decided by the captain, who directed the small skiff, hanging astern, to be lowered down, and ordered both Philip and Schriften to get into it. The seamen approved of this arrangement, as it satisfied both parties.
The signal was to be given by Philip: it was, to let go the halyards of the yard, so that the sail should fall down upon a portion of the other party, and entangle them. By Philip's directions, Schriften had taken the helm, and Krantz remained by his side.
"Now, holy Virgin, protect us what can this be?" exclaimed the captain in a fright. "Holy Saint Antonio, protect us but this is awful." "There! there!" shouted the sailors, pointing to the beam of the vessel. Every eye looked over the gunnel to witness what had occasioned such exclamations. Philip, Schriften, and the captain were side by side.
"God in heaven!" exclaimed Mynheer Kloots. Philip felt a hand upon his shoulder, and the cold darted through his whole frame. He turned round and met the one eye of Schriften, who screamed in his ear "PHILIP VANDERDECKEN that's the Flying Dutchman!"
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