Part 33 (1/2)
”But are you in much pain now?”
”I should just think I a cut up with blunt saws as had been roaned Don
”Now don't go on like that, Mas' Don, and ive us a candle, Jem, do you think, if I was to knock?”
”Not they,how queer I looked if you got a light There, sit down and let's talk”
Don groped along by the damp wall till he reached the place where his companion lay, and then went down on his knees beside him
”It seems to be all over, Jem,” he said
”Over? Not it, in”
”Then we shall be made sailors”
”S'pose so, Mas' Don Well, I don't know as I should so ht just as well be pulling ropes as pushi+ng casks and winding cranes”
”But we shall have to fight, Je as it's fisties I don't know as I much mind, but if they expect me to chop or shoot anybody, they'retihtest inclination to speak His thoughts were busy over their atte by the rope Then he thought again of ho sure that they would believe him to have behaved badly
His heart ached as he recalled all the past, and how much his present position was due to his own folly and discontent, while, at the end of every scene he evoked, caht that no matter how he repented, it was too late--too late!
”How are you now, Jem?” he asked once or twice, as he tried to pierce the utter darkness; but there was no answer, and at last he relieved the weariness of his position by ainst it, and in this position, despite all his trouble, his head drooped forward till his chin rested upon his chest, and he fell fast asleep for what seemed to him only a fewhihly shaken
”Rouse up, ly about hilare of an open lanthorn
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
ON BOARD
It was a strange experience, and half asleep and confused, Don could hardly , or a prisoner being conveyed to gaol in consequence of Mike Bannock's charge
All see of ar their prisoners, of whoreat gates, there see, and full of complaints and threats now that they were about to be conveyed away; but every angry remonstrance was met by one more severe, and sometimes accoiven with the hilt or flat of a cutlass
”This here's lively, Mas' Don,” said Jem, as he stood beside his companion in misfortune
”I want to speak to the principal officer,” said Don, excitedly ”We must not let them drive us off as if ere sheep”
”Will you take a bit of good advice, ood advice,” said Don, sharply