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"I will do my best to avoid that fate," returned Rosco, with a touch of sarcasm. "Ho! lads! come down." Three powerful seamen, who had stood at the hatchway awaiting the summons, descended, and at once laid hold of Zeppa. To their surprise, he made no resistance. To every one but the captain he behaved liked a lamb.
It will be sufficient for him to know that you are an unfortunate sailor who had fallen into the hands of the savages." "Yes," exclaimed Rosco, grasping eagerly at the idea; "and that's just what I am. Moreover, I ran away from my ship! But but do you not feel it your duty to give me up?" "What I shall feel it my duty to do ultimately is not a matter for present consideration.
"Kin you git on my back?" asked Ebony. "You's a good lift, but I's awful strong." "I will try," returned Rosco, "but you will have to protect me from Zeppa if he sees me, for he is bent on taking my life.
"Why, how came you to know that?" asked the captain, somewhat perplexed and thrown off his guard. "Ho! ho!" laughed Ebony in a subdued voice, "how I comes to know dat, eh? I come to knows many t'ings by putting dis an' dat togider. You's cappen ob man-ob-war. Well, you no comes here for notting. Well, Rosco de pirit, de horroble scoundril, hims lib here. Ob course you come for look for him.
"What a shame, father," cried the latter, "to begin without letting us know!" "Ah! Orley, I'm sorry you have found us at it. Marie and I had planned giving you a surprise by making Rosco walk up to you." "Never mind," cried Rosco impatiently; "just set me on my pins, and I'll soon walk into him. Now then, hoist away!" Orley and his father each seized an arm, and next moment Rosco stood up.
Cheer up, Rosco, you shall find a home and a welcome in Ratinga." "Always returning good for evil, Zeppa," said Rosco, in a more cheerful voice. "I think it is this tremendous weakness that crushes my spirits, but come I'll try to `cheer up, as you advise." "Dat's right massa!" cried Ebony, in an encouraging tone; "an' jus' look at the glipperin' steepil.
"Oh, death! you have hovered over my head pretty steadily of late! It is a question whether I had not better let you come on and end these weary struggles, rather than become a hopeless cripple in the prime of life! Why should I fear death now more than before?" "Have you any hope of eternal life, Rosco?" "How can I tell? What do I know about eternal life!"
In half an hour they were under the shelter of the cliffs close to a creek, at the inner end of which there was a morsel of flat beach. Beyond this lay a richly wooded piece of land, which seemed to be connected with a gorge among the hills. "Lower the boat" said Rosco. "Have three men ready, and, when I call, send them to the hold."
There was something of the feline spirit in these Raturan savages. As the cat plays with the mouse before killing it, so did they amuse themselves with the pirate before putting him to the final torture which was to terminate his life. And well was it for Rosco that they did so, for the delay thus caused was the means of saving his life though he did not come out of the dread ordeal scathless.
As the sun sank lower towards the west, our friend Ebony might have been seen slowly climbing the side of one of the neighbouring hills with Richard Rosco, the ex-pirate, on his back. "Set me down now, my friend," said Rosco, "you are far too good to me; and let me know what it is you have to say to me. You have quite roused my curiosity by your nods and mysterious manner.
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