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At another time, the Esmeralda being in a more than usually tempting position, the Spanish gunboats ventured out in the hope of recapturing her, and for an hour maintained a smart fire; but on seeing the O'Higgins manoeuvring to cut them off, they precipitately retreated." In ways like those the Spaniards were locked in, and harassed, in Callao Bay.
Douglas was back in less than a minute, carrying the telescope, by the aid of which it was presently seen that the approaching steamers were undoubtedly warships; one of them having very much the appearance of the Magellanes, while the other, a corvette, might be either the O'Higgins or the Chacabuco. Condell looked long at the approaching ships, and then turned to look at the Union.
At no time did she feel bodily or mental fatigue. Frequently she would doze in her chair; but the slightest movement on the bed aroused her. At luncheon, on the third day, a thick-set man with a blue jaw smiled across his table at her. She recognized him as the man who had blundered into the wrong room. "How is the patient?" he asked. "He will live," answered Ruth. "That's fine," said O'Higgins.
He rose slowly and extended it. An ancient smile lay on his lips. "You dropped this, sir." "Oh. Thanks." O'Higgins, bitten with disappointment, returned the photograph to his pocket. "Victoria; that's the hotel." "That's but a short distance from here, sir." "O'Higgins is the name." "Mr. O'Higgins. Let me take the satchel, sir." "It's light. I'll tote it myself.
O'Higgins know the truth; he wouldn't be reckless with the funds, then. For a time I didn't know we'd ever find you. Then came the cable that you were in Canton, ill, but not dangerously so. Mr. O'Higgins was to keep track of you until I believed you had had enough punishment. Then he was to arrest you and bring you home to me. When I learned you were married, I changed my plans.
"That was easy enough, but" and the commander raised his eyebrows and shrugged his shoulders "of what use? He was no use to the corvette. Better for him to stay there, and perhaps recover, than to die on board the O'HIGGINS and be thrown to the blue sharks. Possibly, senor, you may find him well, and it may suit you to take him to your good ship, and teach him the business of catching the whale.
I would not have done this but from a feeling of attachment to the Supreme Director, General O'Higgins, whose amiable disposition too easy to contend with the machinations of those around him, was a sufficient assurance that he was neither an actor in, nor even privy to the system of annoyance pursued towards me by a clique of whom Zenteno was the agent.
Do you know what Spurlock has done?" "Mr. O'Higgins did not confide in me. But he told me this much, that no matter how far Mr. Spurlock went, it would not be far enough." A detective. The doctor paced the room half a dozen times. How easily an evil thought could penetrate a normally decent mind! All he had to do was to disclose Spurlock's destination, and in a few months Ruth would be free.
This morning I met him at the dock, and he wouldn't take the other fifty. A queer nut. Imagine any one on this side refusing fifty bucks! Well, I'll be toddling along. Don't feel fussed upon my account. I get your side all right. H'm!" Over the desk, on the wall, was a map of the South Pacific archipelagoes, embossed by a number of little circles drawn in red ink. O'Higgins eyed it thoughtfully.
"I suppose he'll be on his feet any day now." "No. It will take at least three weeks." "Well, so long as he gets on his feet in the end. You're a friend of the young man?" "If you mean did I know him before he became ill, no." "Ah." O'Higgins revolved this information about, but no angle emitted light.
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