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Updated: May 20, 2025
I have passed through a rather startling experience during the night; and" in a low tone of voice, so that the ladies, if awake, might not hear him "I have bad news to communicate. Will you kindly step into my cabin for a moment?" The two gentlemen passed into the state-room and seated themselves on the sofa-locker, Ned following and closing the door after him.
No; sleep and he were strangers, at least for the time being, so he flung himself down on the sofa-locker and tried to think. But for the first half-hour or so even the power of thought was denied him.
Accordingly I descended the companion, and as I entered the cabin Mendouca rose from a sofa-locker upon which he had flung himself, and again stretched forth his hand. "I want you to forgive me, Dugdale," said he, with great earnestness. "Nay, but you must; I will take no denial.
It was answered from the deck, and, kneeling upon the sofa-locker and thrusting his body well out of the port, the skipper became aware that the lugger was parting company, and that the hail he had heard was the voice of the French captain shouting his parting instructions to the officer he had left in charge of the prize.
'You'll find a tongue, said the voice of doom, 'in the starboard sofa-locker; beer under the floor in the bilge. I'll see her round that buoy, if you wouldn't mind beginning. I obeyed with a bad grace, but the close air and cramped posture must have benumbed my faculties, for I opened the port-side locker, reached down, and grasped a sticky body, which turned out to be a pot of varnish.
The Master drew a fine bead on him and fired. Both he and Leclair laughed, as the Arab pitched forward in the sand. Unseen hands dragged the warrior back, away, out of sight. A slug crashed through the upper pane of the port window, flattened itself against the main corridor door and dropped to the sofa-locker.
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