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Updated: June 28, 2025
Even Spinkie lay in a melancholy little heap in the lee scuppers. You think this a far-fetched coincidence, good reader! Well, all we can say is that we could tell you of another a double coincidence, which was far more extraordinary than this one, but as it has nothing to do with our tale we refrain from inflicting it on you.
Before the light referred to went out, Moses was struck violently on the chest by something soft, which caused him to stagger. It was Spinkie!
In the midst of the unusual horrors that surrounded him, while clinging to the unfamiliar mizzen shrouds on which in desperation the poor monkey had found a temporary refuge, the electric fire showed him the dark figure of his old familiar friend standing not far off. With a shriek of not quite hopeless despair, and an inconceivable bound, Spinkie launched himself into space.
Being extremely fond of monkeys, Nigel went forward to fondle him, and Spinkie being equally fond of fondling, resigned himself placidly after one interrogative gaze of wide-eyed suspicion into the stranger's hands. A lifelong friendship was cemented then and there. After stowing the cargo the party returned to the upper cavern, leaving the monkey to guard the canoe.
He flung open the shed-door and revealed Spinkie seated in his old place, much deteriorated in appearance and scowling malevolently. The instant the poor creature heard its master's voice and saw his form for his features must have been invisible against the strong light the scowl vanished from its little visage.
"Now, Moses, are you ready?" asked the hermit. "All ready, massa." "Get in then and shove off. Come along, Spinkie."
"Now you keep still," he said in solemn tones and with warning looks to Spinkie. "If you keep fidgitin' about you'll capsize de boat. You hear?" Spinkie veiled his real affection for the negro under a look of supreme indifference, while Winnie went off into a sudden giggle at the idea of such a small creature capsizing the boat.
Does not Spinkie prove it also, when, issuing at call, from its own pagoda in the sunniest corner of the Rakata garden, it forsakes cocoa-nuts, sugar-cane, fruits, and other delights, to lay its little head in joyful consecration on the black bosom of its benignant friend? And what of Moses' opinion of the new home?
"Now, Moses, are you ready?" asked the hermit. "All ready, massa." "Get in then and shove off. Come along, Spinkie."
M'r'over, as I's bin obleeged to leabe Spinkie in charge ob de boat, I feels okard widout somet'ing to carry, an' you ain't much heavier dan Spinkie, Miss Winnie so, come along." He stooped with the intention of grasping Winnie as if she were a little child, but with a light laugh the girl sprang away and left Moses behind.
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