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Suppose we start with the Latin!" There wasn't any use not studying, because he didn't play fair. No man has any right to starve you. So I studied some every day after that. Old Gabbett, the chap I had before Twigg, used to shrug his shoulders when I wouldn't study, and tell me I was a good-for-nothing and would live to be hung. Then he'd go off to his room and let me alone.
Inside was this bit o' rag-bag." "Ah!" said Mr. Gabbett, "that's more like. Read it out, Jemmy." The writing, though feminine in character, was bold and distinct. Sarah had evidently been mindful of the education of her friends, and had desired to give them as little trouble as possible. "All is right. Watch me when I come up to-morrow evening at three bells.
"I can't help you," says Vetch, looking about in terror. "Think of poor Tom Bodenham." "But he was no murderer. If they kill me, I shall go to hell with Tom's blood on my soul." He writhes on the ground in sickening terror, and Gabbett arriving, bids Vetch bring wood for the fire.
"How many mates had he?" asked Maurice, watching the champing jaws as one looks at a strange animal, and asking the question as though a "mate" was something a convict was born with like a mole, for instance. "Three, sir." "Three, eh? Well, give him thirty lashes, Vickers." "And if I ha' had three more," growled Gabbett, mumbling at his tobacco, "you wouldn't ha' had the chance."
It is the terrible privilege of insanity to be sleepless. On the fifth day, Vetch, creeping behind a tree, takes off his belt, and makes a noose. He will hang himself. He gets one end of the belt over a bough, and then his cowardice bids him pause. Gabbett approaches; he tries to evade him, and steal away into the bush. In vain.
"But we can't stir without the girl," Gabbett said. "She's got to stall off the sentry and give us the orfice." The Crow's sallow features lighted up with a cunning smile. "Dear old caper merchant! Hear him talk!" said he, "as if he had the wisdom of Solomon in all his glory? Look here!" And he produced a dirty scrap of paper, over which his companions eagerly bent their heads.
"God rest his puir soul," said McNab, shuddering. "He's out o' our han's now." Gabbett, guided by the Crow, had determined to beach the captured boat on the southern point of Cape Surville. It will be seen by those who have followed the description of the topography of Colonel Arthur's Penitentiary, that nothing but the desperate nature of the attempt could have justified so desperate a measure.
Vetch, going, sees Greenhill clinging to wolfish Gabbett's knees, and Sanders calls after him, "You will hear it presently, Jem." The nervous Crow puts his hand to his ears, but is conscious of a dull crash and a groan. When he comes back, Gabbett is putting on the dead man's shoes, which are better than his own. "We'll stop here a day or so and rest," said he, "now we've got provisions."
There was silence for a minute or two. The giant was plunged in gloomy abstraction, and Vetch and the Moocher interchanged a significant glance. Gabbett had been ten years at the colonial penal settlement of Macquarie Harbour, and he had memories that he did not confide to his companions. When he indulged in one of these fits of recollection, his friends found it best to leave him to himself.
Kirkland jumped for the jetty, missed his footing, and fell into the arms of the chaplain. "You young vermin you shall pay for this," cries Troke. "You'll see if you won't remember this day." "Oh, Mr. North," says Kirkland, "why did you stop me? I'd better be dead than stay another night in that place." "You'll get it, my lad," said Gabbett, when the runaway was brought back.
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