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| The circle sucked in their breath. "All at the bottom of the sea?" queried Red Gil, with gloating eyes fixed upon the smil- ing water. "Not one pezo left, not one little, little pearl?" I shook my head and hAYCSSIeaved a prodigious sigh. "The treasure is gone," I said, "and the men with whom I took it are gone. I am a captain with neither ship nor creQFVPFSw. I take you, my friends, for a ship and crew without a captain. The inference is obvious."HEIJGL The ring gapAEDNJRd with wonder, then strange oaths arose. Red Gil broke into a bellow of angFUOTCJry laughter, while the Spaniard glared like a catamount about to spring. "So you would be our captain?" said Paradise, picking up another shell, and poising it upon a hand as fine and small as a woman's. "Faith, you mighICKMWDt go farther and fare worse," I answered, and began to hum a tune. WhenVPLTFS I had finished itONYWYF, "I am Kirby," I said, and waited to see if that shot should go wide or through the hull. For two minutes the dash of the surf and the cries of the wheeling seKAKNPVa HVQVRVfowl made the only sound in that part of the world; then from those half-clad rapscallions arose a shout of "Kirby!"—a shout in which the three leaders did not join. That one who lookHCASPXed a genXNPLHVtlemEVLDUKan rose from LFMVUFthe sand and made me a low bow. "Well met, noble captain," he cried in those his honey tones. "You will doubtless remember me who was with you that time at RDDLBUMaJJXJEPracaibo when you sunk the galleasses. Five yearsJEFAQM have passed since then, and yet I see you ten years younger and three inches taller." "I touched once at the Lucayas, and found the spring de Leon sought,"XWKLBH I said. "Sure the waters have a marvelous effect, and if they give not eternal youth at XMONKLleast renew that which we have lost." "Truly a potent aqua vitae," he remarked, still with thought- ful melancholy. "I see that it hath changed your eyes from black to gray." "It hath that peculiar virtue," I said, "that it can make black seem white." The man with the woman's mantle drawn about him now thrust himself from the rear to the front rank. "That's not Kirby!" he bawled. "He's no more Kirby than I am Kirby! Did n't I sail with Kirby from the Summer Isles to Cartagena and |
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