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Updated: May 11, 2025
May be he's heard the report that black-browed Charlie's thinking of pushing on this way, though I don't believe it; it's too good to be true: it would soon make us tune up 'Hey for Cavaliers! and bring the old days back again." "But let us," chimed in Springall "let us keep clear of every thing of the sort till our ship's safe.
"Master Hays," inquired Springall, wisely avoiding any topic likely to excite political difference, "you are an oracle, and can tell me what has become of my worthy friend, that most excellent compounder of confections, Solomon Grundy?"
Ugly fellow, indeed;" repeated Springall, twitching up his trowsers "I wonder what she meant by ugly fellow!" "So do I," said the Skipper, with a sigh; for his mind was still 'harping on his daughter: "So do I, but women have strange fancies. Let me now ask you what news you have, for I cannot see how this concerns me."
"Hugh Dalton, the ship was yours, and yours alone, and to you the parchment which Springall holds accounts for its destruction; that destruction, Captain, ought to prove one thing, and one thing only that I loved you better than the Fire-fly. Both could not have been preserved. You have treated me as a dog, to whom you would have given a dog's death; and I shall not forget it."
Springall, who did not love her so much as to prevent his being useful, was the first to regain his self-possession; he brought in his cap some water that was trickling down the rock, and threw it on her pallid brow while Zillah chafed her hands, and endeavoured to separate her from her father.
Springall had orders to distribute among them, and without distinction, abundance of rum, while Dalton retired to his cabin, still unmoved, to pen some despatches, which he deemed necessary to send to the main land that night. When he returned on deck, the revellers had retired, and the watch was set.
Vallery, this girl, whom he believed to be a Jewess, offered him a large sum of money if he would secrete her on board, at all events until the ship sailed, and if after concealment was impossible he would not betray her. Springall detailed this intelligence in much less time than it has occupied us to repeat it; and then pausing, added, "But the worst is yet to come.
When Springall held occasional communication with him, he never saw him tread the deck without mentally exclaiming, "What a brave skipper that boy will make! He has the very gait of a commander: the step free, yet careless; the voice clear as a warning bell; the eye keen, and as strong as an eagle's."
As the flames rose and encircled their victim, his cries were so dreadful, that Springall pressed his hands to his ears, and buried his face in the sand; but Roupall looked on to the last, thinking aloud his own rude but energetic thoughts. "Ah! you do not pray, as I have seen some do!
"Ay, ay, sir," replied Springall, wiping his face with the sleeve of his jacket. "Take a drop, master," he continued, drawing a tin bottle from his bosom, "'twill warm ye after such a cursed cruise."
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