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"Whom does she belong to?" inquired Leopold. "She belongs to Leopold Bennington now." This announcement was followed by a silvery laugh from the merchant's daughter. "She is to take the place of the boat you lost." "Here's a go!" grinned Stumpy, who was doing duty on board as assistant steward. "We don't care to mystify you, Leopold," laughed Mr. Hamilton.
Steward, call the ladies. We can no longer disguise from them, Mr. Lacy, that we are in a bad way as bad a way as I have ever been in during my thirty years at sea." In a couple of minutes the two De Boos girls, Miss Weidermann, and the native girl Mina, came out of their cabins; and when the steward said that Mrs.
Manston then retired to his office, and shut himself up for the remainder of the evening. Next morning the steward went out as usual. He shortly told his companion, Anne, that he had almost matured their scheme, and that they would enter upon the details of it when he came home at night.
But this we do know that to mend one act of villainy by committing a fresh one, is not wisdom, but foolishness; and we may be sure that our Lord would never have held up the unjust steward as an example to us, or quoted his master's opinion of him, if all he did was to commit fraud on fraud, and make bad worse, thereby risking his own more utter ruin.
There might be a reason for it all which would be perfectly plausible, if not convincing of the captain's good intentions. Doc came to the door of his room, and whispered: "Yo' all want the lamp goin', Mr. Trask?" "No," said Trask. "You go to bed and keep still." He felt that the steward was inordinately curious about the visit to the captain's room and why Trask was walking about outside.
If the latter was falsely believed to be his work, then Proclus's judgment was explained then then Seized by a torturing anguish, he groaned aloud, and the steward Gras inquired what he wanted. Hermon hastily grasped the Bithynian's arm, and asked what he knew about the rescue of his statue. The answer was by no means satisfying.
"I have something to tell you, citizen," said the steward, with a weighty air, "but first I must beg you to make me a solemn promise that you will continue a faithful and obedient servant of the count, and prove in no way false to your oath and your duty."
"Daniel!" said you, "only wait till I am grown a big man, and you shall be my steward, and ride in the coach with me."
The gentlemen looked at Harvey and did not seem to like the appearance of him; and he certainly did not promise to be a very agreeable companion for an excursion. They took no notice of him, and the steward was mortified by their coldness. "Are you going to leave us, Mr. Barth?" asked the landlord, who was behind the counter.
Poor John had served the squire's father also as steward, and loved the young master as if he had been his own child; and it was known that, when ruin fell on the young man, the poor steward was dragged down also to poverty, having been somehow or other involved in his employer's ruin. But never did John Price utter a word that would throw light on this subject to anyone outside his own family.
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