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We seated ourselves about the table and ordered wine; mine remained untasted while the others drank. I determined to touch no wine that night. "Comrade, you do not drink," Yvard remarked, "is your blood still hot with the clash of steel?" "No, by my honor, that is long forgotten; it is my oath, an oath, too, that can not be broken." "Ah, to a lady?" I nodded, and he smiled.
The court must act with all the facts before it; as a commencement, tell us where Raoul Yvard left his lugger to go on yonder headland." "I do not think, Captain Cuffe, you've got the story exactly right. Captain Rule didn't go on the mountain, a'ter all, so much to see the aunt as to see the niece at the aunt's dwelling; if one would eend right in a story, he must begin right."
"Do you wish us to understand that your companions are not French, Monsieur Yvard?" "Oui, Monsieur le Captaine; there is not a Frenchman among them, I give you my parole d'honneur" "Of that fact it may be well to satisfy ourselves by an examination, Captain Cuffe," put in Griffin, dryly. "I have sent up to beg Mr. Winchester would get these people on board "
Yvard had been beforehand with me: and I had to under-run about a hundred of his lying yarns before I could even enter the end of an idea of my own " "You speak Italian, sir, like a Neapolitan born; and I depended on your doing everything as it should have been." "Not so much like a Neapolitan, I hope, Captain Cuffe, as like a Tuscan or a Roman," returned Griffin, biting his lip.
"I have heard it said," observed Cuffe, as he and his brother captains stood conversing together on the quarter-deck of the Proserpine just after this last report had been made "I have heard it said, that this Raoul Yvard has actually gone boldly into several of our ports, under English or neutral colors, and lain there a day or two at a time unsuspected, until it has suited him to go out again.
He strode over to his confederate, yet engaged in play, and made no pretense of concealing the abruptness of his question. The man, in reply, indicated my position at the other table. Yvard appeared somewhat relieved. Again he spoke, and this time the man at the table gathered up the money in front of him and replaced it in his purse. Then he cried loud enough for me to hear: "What?"
I saw Raoul Yvard by the light of the fire as plainly as I now see you, and might have picked him off with a musket; but that would hardly have been honorable." To this Cuffe assented, and then he led the way on deck, having previously ordered the boats manned.
Madame had raised no objection to the Duke's cool command that an end be made of Yvard, yet I did her the credit to suppose it was because she well knew she might do as she liked, and he be none the wiser.
"I should think there would be but little danger of the lugger's departing in the night, Signor Tenente, her commander rather expressing an intention of passing several days with us; and it is this ease and confidence of his which cause me to think that he cannot be the person you take him for. Why should Raoul Yvard and le Feu-Follet come into Porto Ferrajo at all?"
"There she goes, into the very breakers!" exclaimed Cuffe, as they watched le Feu-Follet in her attempt to pass the promontory; "Monsieur Yvard must be determined to cast away his craft rather than be taken. It will be touch and go with him."
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