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| Dead Men Tell No Tales | E. W. Hornung |
Chapter V My Reward |
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"I can't hardly say," said the captain awkwardly. "We found the gig o' the Lady Jermyn the week arter we found you, bein' becalmed like; there wasn't no lady aboard her, though." "Was there anybody?" "Two dead 'uns - an' this here paper." "Let me see it!" The skipper hesitated. "Hadn't you better wait a bit?" "No, no; for Christ's sake let me see the worst; do you think I can't read it in your face?" I could - I did. I made that plain to them, and at last I had the paper smoothed out upon my knees. It was a short statement of the last sufferings of those who had escaped in the gig, and there was nothing in it that I did not now expect. They had buried Ready first - then my darling - then her step-father. The rest expected to follow fast enough. It was all written plainly, on a sheet of the log-book, in different trembling hands. Captain Harris had gone next; and two had been discovered dead. How long I studied that bit of crumpled paper, with the salt spray still sparkling on it faintly, God alone knows. All at once a peal of nightmare laughter rattled through the cabin. My deliverers started back. The laugh was mine. |
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