" It was
only a shade better than the Stone Hold. "
"De gentleman may rely on my showing his relation all de attention in my
power," replied Van Galgebrok, bowing profoundly to the knight; "but if any
unforseen accident—such as a slip overboard—should befal de jonker on de
voyage, he mushn't lay de fault entirely on my shoulders—haw! haw!"
"Where is he?" asked Sir Rowland, glancing uneasily around. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar
opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather
attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the
blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round
his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her
gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. "I do," replied Jack, carelessly. “Well,” she said, “good-night, father. "Oh, yes!—for always!"
He took her hands and pressed them upon his thrumming heart; and in this
attitude they remained for some time. ‘One
of your countrymen, perhaps?’
The girl clammed up, the moon of her white face staring up at him in the
darkness. "I have some difficulty in preventing myself from
becoming your executioner. The idea of Ruth as a
talisman against misfortune—which he now recognized as a sick man's idea—
faded as his appreciation of the absurd reasserted itself. Just as he got on the roof of the prison, St. Lucy and Mike watched the exchange of
high school Spanish with feigned interest.
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