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Our first search was for the clothing of the Frau and the young ladies. We managed to get up a trunk which contained a portion of them, though the water had got in, and had greatly spoiled the contents. We fished about for some time, and then got up another box, which had suffered in the same way. "It cannot be helped," observed Tarbox.
"That will do admirably for us," said Mr Thudicumb; "for though our vessel must not be so long, we shall require the thicker part for the purpose." Tarbox, Roger Trew, and Potto Jumbo set to work to fell the tree, the forest loudly resounding with the blows of their axes. I must not occupy too much time in describing how the tree was felled, the branches cut off, and squared into shape.
Tarbox, the coach might have crashed into the tree at that dangerous point, and an accident ensued more disastrous to life and limb than the robbery itself." The sudden and unmistakable delight that expanded the old woman's mouth was so convincing that it might have given Brice a tinge of remorse over the success of his stratagem, had he not been utterly absorbed in his purpose.
"I don't know what overt act is," observed my friend; "but I know dat if dey stick de kriss into me, or de mate, or Massa Tarbox, dey no stop dere. When dey begin, I know what dese fellows are." "Then, what we must do, is to watch them narrowly," I observed. "Ay, ay, Massa Walter, I got my eyes about me; neber fear of dat. Dey tink me go to sleep.
We will rig her as a cutter or yawl perhaps." Day after day we repaired to the bay; but to my eye our progress was but slow indeed, as every timber had to be reformed, and the old bolts taken out of them, as well as out of the planks. It was a long business. With the exception of Mr Thudicumb and Tarbox, we were all inexperienced carpenters.
"We took you for natives," answered one of the men, "and thought it might be that you were coming to carry off the boat." "If you had been where you ought to have been on board her they would have found that a hard job," replied Ben. "We were only stretching our legs, Master Tarbox, while we looked out for the rest. What has become of them?" asked the man.
"We'll call her Marcia Hume Tarbox," he said at length. "Why the Hume?" "Because he's the fellow who first introduced us." "That so?" she murmured, sleepily surprised. "I thought his name was Moon." Her eyes dosed, and after a moment the slow lengthening surge of the bedclothes over her breast showed that she was asleep.
Would you face her thyself without the goods in hand, Calvin Tabor?" "Faith, and I'd face a dozen like her for fifteen pound," declared Captain Tabor. Then, with another great laugh. "I have it; send thy mate, send thy deaf mate, Jack Tarbox, man." "But she will demand to see the captain."
"We will do what we can to save any people on board her," said Captain Davenport. "Get the life-boat ready for lowering, Mr Tarbox." "Ay, ay, sir; I am ready to go in her," answered the boatswain. "Perhaps Mr Thudicumb may wish to go, or the second officer; but if not, Tarbox, I would intrust her to you more readily than to anybody."
Scarcely had eight bells been struck, when the voice of the boatswain from the forecastle was heard shouting, "A vessel on the lee bow, sir! A dismasted ship! It can be nothing else!" Captain Davenport went forward, followed by Merlin. "Where away is she, Mr Tarbox?" he asked of the boatswain. "There, sir, you will catch her over the bumkin-head," answered the boatswain.
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