Part 85 (1/2)
”Phehistled the officer, quite changing his manner ”Then pray who are you?”
”I'm Doctor Burnet's son”
”Oh, then of course that alters the case, st the jackdaws, so youyour neck too”
”Oh, it's all right if you believe , it seemed precious hard to be treated as prisoners e expected to be free to get home”
”Then this scoundrel took you both, and has brutally ill-used you ever since?”
Vince looked round sharply, found the captain's piercing eyes fixed on his, and hesitated
”Oh no,” he said; ”he caught us, and wouldn't let us go for fear we should tell where his stores of soods are, but he has behaved very well to us ever since”
”Like a gentleman,” put in Mike
”Indeed! Well, then we entlelers' depot is?”
Vince nodded
”And you could show us the way?”
Vince nodded again
”Well, then, you'll have the pleasure of being our guide there as soon as we've taken that confounded schooner”
”No, I shall not,” said Vince, looking hard at Jacques ”I don't feel as if it would be fair”
”But you'll have to, 's na, _ days are ovaire, and I have been expecting zis every day zese ten years”
”Very well, then,” said Vince: ”I'll proular puzzle”
”By land, then Where is it?”
”Over yonder, on our island”
”What, at the Crag?” cried the lieutenant
”Yes”
The officer gave vent to a long, lohistle
”Thank you, ood news indeed! We have been baffled for years, stopped by this hiding-place which no one knew of
Then, when I have taken the schooner I'll land you with a party, and you shall show us the place”
”No,” said Vince; ”I want to be paid for doing it”