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No!" said Feliu, shaking his head.... One of his luggermen, Gioachino Sparicio, who, though a Sicilian, could speak several Italian idioms besides his own, had already essayed. "She speaks something or other," answered the captain "but no English. I couldn't make her understand me; and Feliu, who talks nearly all the infernal languages spoken down this way, says he can't make her understand him.
He had been a good yachtsman in other years; and Sparicio declared he would make a good fisherman. By midnight the San Marco began to run with a long, swinging gait; she had reached deep water. Julien slept soundly; the steady rocking of the sloop seemed to soothe his nerves.
Then, ghostly faint, as an echo from very far away, a triple blowing responded... And a long purple mass loomed and swelled into sight, heightened, approached land and trees black-shadowing, and lights that swung ... The San Marco glided into a bayou, under a high wharfing of timbers, where a bearded fisherman waited, and a woman. Sparicio flung up a rope.
Over the sea, behind them, lay, black-stretching, a long low arm of island-shore; before them flamed the splendor of sun-death; they were sailing into a mighty glory, into a vast and awful light of gold. Shading his vision with his fingers, Sparicio pointed to the long lean limb of land from which they were fleeing, and said to La Brierre: "Look-a, Doct-a! Last-a Islan'!"
And then, suddenly, with a rich and splendid basso that seemed to thrill every fibre of the planking, Sparicio joined in the song: "M'ama pur d'amore eterno, Ne deilitto sembri a te; T'assicuro che l'inferno Una favola sol e." ... All the roughness of the man was gone! To Julien's startled fancy, the fishers had ceased to be; lo! Carmelo was a princely page; Sparicio, a king!
His father's dear old friend! Julien could not refuse to go, though he feared it was a hopeless case. Angina pectoris, and a third attack at seventy years of age! Would it even be possible to reach the sufferer's bedside in time? "Due giorno, con vento," said Sparicio. Still, he must go; and at once.
Sullen Sparicio himself at last burst into vociferations of ill-humor: "Santo Antonio? Ah! santissimu e santu diavulu! ... Sacramentu paescite vegnu un asidente! malidittu lu Signuri!" All through the morning they walked and pushed, trudged and sighed and swore; and the minutes dragged by more wearily than the shuffling of their feet.
The bearded man caught it by the lantern-light, and tethered the San Marco to her place. Then he asked, in a deep voice: "Has traido al Doctor?" "Si, si!" answered Sparicio... "Y el viejo?" "Aye! pobre!" responded Feliu, "hace tres dias que esta muerto." Henry Edwards was dead!
He had died very suddenly, without a cry or a word, while resting in his rocking-chair, the very day after Sparicio had sailed. They had made him a grave in the marsh, among the high weeds, not far from the ruined tomb of the Spanish fisherman. But Sparicio had fairly earned his hundred dollars. So there was nothing to do at Viosca's Point except to rest.
Then, while Sparicio slept, he aided Carmelo; and during the middle of the day he rested again. He had not had so much uninterrupted repose for many a week. He fancied he could feel himself getting strong. At supper-time it seemed to him he could not get enough to eat, although there was plenty for everybody.
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