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They continued several days at Taboga, waiting for a Lima treasure ship, aboard which, the Spaniards told them, were £2500 in silver dollars. While they waited for this ship the Governor at Panama wrote to ask them why they had come into those seas.
"Well, I'll have a try at it, anyhow." He tossed away his handful of leaves. "Silly! I did it because I wanted to talk with you." "Well, those horses wouldn't overhear." "Don't be angry, Kirk. I haven't seen you alone since that night." "Taboga?" he said, guiltily. "You're not going to lecture me again? I'm sorry enough as it is." Never in all his life had he felt more uncomfortable.
Then the paralysis that had numbed her vanished, and she spoke with quivering intensity. "You've been dishonest with me, Kirk." "Don't act this way," he ordered, roughly. "I'm terribly fond of you, but I never knew " "You MUST have known." "I knew NOTHING. I chose not to think. What I saw I forgot. I supposed you merely liked me as I liked you." "That night at Taboga!" she flared up.
They won't say anything, but they'll know, and you can't stand that, can you? Even if you could fool me once more against the evidence of my own eyes and ears, and convince me that your lies are true, it wouldn't do any good with them." "'Evidence! You have no evidence." "No? What about that night at Taboga? You were mad over the fellow then, but you didn't think I saw.
I had not even the luck of my friend who, by dint of cross-country runs in the jungle at noonday and similar industrious efforts, worked up at last a temperature of 99 degrees and got his week at Taboga. I stuck immovable at 98.6 degrees. Soon after five I had bidden Ancon farewell and set off on the last ride across the Isthmus. There was a memory tucked away in every corner.
Evelyn presently joined me in the pilot-house. "When shall we get ashore?" she asked me. We were at the time, I remember, passing Taboga Island. "Not till morning. We'll have to be inspected. To-night we'll lie in the harbor." "How is your hand?" she asked, glancing at my bruised fingers. I flashed a look quickly at her. "My hand! Oh, it's all right now."
"You remember, for instance, I told you there was one man at Taboga whom I did not wish to see?" "Yes at the sanitarium." "Well, something like this happened once with him and I told Stephen." "And did you tell Mr. Cortlandt what I did?" "Do you think I would have come riding with you if I had?" She shook her head.
The other afternoon I came home sick with my head. I was on the gallery outside when you were pleading with him, and I heard it all. You talked that night about Taboga, your guilty kisses and other things; you acknowledged everything. But he was growing tired of you. That, you know, makes it all the more effective." He smiled in an agonized fury.
They took the best of it, and loaded it aboard her longboat, making the Taboga negroes act as stevedores. They then set the negroes aboard the prize, and carried her home to Panama, "some thing better satisfied of their voyage, yet withal much discontented they could not meet with the galleon." It was at Taboga, it seems, that the lady who so inflamed Sir Henry was made prisoner.
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