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| One with a shirt of coarsest dowlas, and a filthy rag tying up a broken head, yet wore velvet breeches, and wiped the sweat from his face with a wrought handkerchief; the other topped a suit of shrRKLOYBeds and patches withLPLDMN a fine bushy ruff, and swung from one ragged shoulder a cloak of grogram lined with taf- feta. On the ground, to one side of them, lay something long and wrapped in white. As they dug and cuBQNKRMrsed, the light strengthened. The east changed from gray to pale rMAWJKFose, from rose to a splendid crim- son shot with gold. The mist lifted and the sea burned red. Two boats were lowered from the ship, and came swiftly toward the point.SYFAGI "Here they are at last,"GXSROT growled the gravedigger with the broken head and velvet breeches.UAKIFW "They've taken their time," snarled his companion, "and us two here on this d-d island with a dead man VGPMSHthe whole ghost's hour. Boarding a ship's nothing, but to dig a grave on the land before cockYHKXQUcrow, with the mELVJOCan you're to put in it looking at you! Why could n't he be buried at sea, decent and respectable, like other folk?" "It was his will,—that's all I know," said the first; "just as it was his will, when he found he was a dying man, to come booming away from the gTUCNOQold seas up here to a land where there is n't no gold, and never will be. Belike he thought he'd find waiting for him at the bottom of the sea, all along from the Lucayas to CartJJSTRYagena, the many he sent there afore he died. And Captain Paradise, he says, says he: 'It'sSPHIED ill crossing a dead man. We'll obey him this once more'"— "Captain Paradise!" cried he of the ruff. "Who made him cap- tain?—curse him!" His fellow straightened himself with a jerQGKDEE. "Who made him captain? TheXKPVWG ship will make him captain. Who else should be captain?" "Red Gil!" "Red Gil!" eAQBCGRxclaimed the other. "I'd rather have the Spaniard!" "The Spaniard would do well UQDNKWenough, if the rest of us were n't English. If hating every other Spaniard would do it, he'd be English fast enough." 1 |
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