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"The pitcher felt full to my lips!" I exclaimed "Did you drink when you said you did?"
He put out his great hand and pushed ently down "I have no wound," he said, "and there was not enough for two"
The light that treh the cracks above died away, and the darkness beca; our souls panted for the wind and the stars outside At the worst, when the fetid blackness lay upon our chests like a nightmare, the hatch was suddenly lifted, a rush of pure air ca on the deck above Said one, "True the doctor pronounces hier, yet he is a wounded erous man," broke in another harshly "I know not how you will answer to your Co"
"I and the Company understand each other, htiness "I can keep my prisoner without advice If I now order irons to be put upon him and his accomplice, it is because I see fit to do so, and not because of your suggestion, my lord You wish to take this opportunity to have speech with him,--to that I can have no objection"
The speaker hed, and his merriment was echoed by three or four harsh voices Soainst steel, and there was a sudden flare of torches and the steadier light of a lantern A man with a brutal, weather-beaten face--the uessed--came down the ladder, lantern in hand, turned when he had reached the foot, and held up the lantern to light 's favorite as he descended The torches held slantingly above cast a fiery light over his stately figure and the face which had raised him from the low estate of a doubtful birth and a aze at with undazzled eyes In his rich dress and the splendor of his beauty, with the red glow enveloping him, he lit the darkness like a baleful star
The two torchbearers and a thirdthe hatch after them When all were down, my lord, the master at his heels, cah with difficulty, for the fever had left aze His was a cruel look; if I had expected, as assuredly I did not expect, enerosity from this my dearest foe, his look would have struck such a hope dead Presently he beckoned to the men behind him "Put the manacles upon him first," he said, with a jerk of his thumb toward Sparrow