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You see, he and Svorenssen had a pretty bad time, one way and another, all the time they were on West Island; but it was the apes that frightened them worst of all." "Yes," I agreed, "I can quite understand that; but," as an idea suggested itself to me "do you think Van Ryn suspects that you repeat these conversations of his to me?" "N-o, I don't think so," answered the boy. "Why should he.
At the first hint of anything of that sort I'll hand you over to my friends, the natives of yonder island, and ask them to take charge of you; indeed I believe it would only be an act of ordinary prudence to turn you over to them at once." "No, no, Mister," interposed Svorenssen hurriedly, "don't think of it. There ain't goin' to be any trouble, I assure ye.
"Blest if I know what they mightn't believe if Svorenssen and the two Dutchmen got talkin' to 'em," asserted the boatswain.
I next turned to the writhing, groaning figure on the floor and saw that, as I had already surmised, it was that of Svorenssen! He was dressed only in shirt and trousers, both of which, rain-sodden and drenched with blood, were torn to rags by the teeth and claws of the leopard, which was still raving outside and doing his utmost to break adrift from his moorings.
Oh, we managed pretty well," returned Svorenssen. "From the ridge of the hill where the forest was all burned away we were able to get a very fair idea of the geography of the group in general.
But when I insisted that I could do all I had said, he seemed no end pleased. `Ah, he said, `I must tell Svorenssen what you say; he will be glad to hear it. It was only a few nights ago that we were talking about the time when we should leave these islands, and saying what a fix we should all be in if Mr Blackburn should meet with another accident, or fall ill while we were at sea.
A curious fact in connection with this time of trial to our patience and it was a fact that caused me some anxious speculation was that the two men, Svorenssen and Van Ryn, who, at the outset of my connection with them, seemed most likely to be a source of trouble, were the two who grumbled least at the continual calls to the braces.
"Olaf, mine zon, haf ve comed all dis vay from over yonder to be ordered about mit dis man? Let's show 'im dot ve means to do as ve likes here. Come on!" And, whipping out the remains of his sheath knife, he gathered himself together for a spring upon me, with one eye on Svorenssen meanwhile, in full expectation that the latter would back him up. But I was fully prepared.
"Well," said I to Billy, as we turned away to retrace our steps to the house, our bath completely forgotten, "this reappearance of Svorenssen and Van Ryn is a surprise, and not altogether an agreeable one at that.
At length I could endure it no longer, and I said to him, rather sharply, I am afraid: "Stop that blasphemy, Svorenssen, for pity's sake, and rather turn your thoughts to prayer if you know how to pray. I fear that your life has been a deplorably misspent one, and it can last but a few hours longer. Before to-morrow's sun sets you will be face to face with God!
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