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I put my unhurt arently "The Spaniard's ball, you knoent through your shoulder, and in some way your arm was badly torn from shoulder to wrist You have been out of your head ever since ere brought here, three days ago The chirurgeon ca well Don't try to speak,--I'll tell you all Diccon has been pressed into service, as the ship is short of hands, having lost some by fever and so at the yardar clanked in the stillness "You are ironed!" I exclaimed

"Only my ankles My lord would have hadfor water, and, taking you for a dying man, they were so humane as to leave my hands free to attend you"

"My lord would have had you bound," I said slowly "Then it'ssunshine," he answered, with a rueful laugh "It seeaped at him at court Lord! when he put his foot over the side of the ship, how the women screeched and the men stared! He 's cock of the walk now, 's favorite!"

"And we are pirates"

"That 's the case in a nutshell," he answered cheerfully

"Do they kno the ship came to strike upon that reef?" I asked

"Probably not, unless htened them I did n't take the trouble,--they would n't have believed me,--and I can take my oath my lord has n't He was only our helpless prisoner, you know; and they would think madam ri that we had already opened fire upon theot the hed at his own savagery

I lay still and tried to think "Who are they on board?" I asked at last

"I don't know," he replied "I was only on deck until my lord had had his say in the poop cabin with the entleman who appearedup, and ere bundled down here in quick order But there seems to be more of quality than usual aboard"

"You do not knohere we are?"

"We lay at anchor for a day,--whilst they patched her up, I suppose,--and since then there has been rough weather We o to sleep You'll get your strength best so, and there's nothing to be gotten by waking"