There lay upon this stand a book bound in limp black leather—the Holy Bible. I’m starving. ‘Do you mean to tell me,’ enquired the captain at length, ‘that you have had
the infernal audacity, the—the gall, the—the— Gad, it’s an outrage! You’ve
stolen a horse from a priest?’
‘I did not steal it,’ protested Melusine hotly. ‘You are not the only one to seek them out,’ he said. I've got an address here. ’
‘You were always someone, Melusine. While he was filling his pockets with golden coin from this store, Blueskin
had pulled the plate-chest from under the bed, and having forced it open, began
filling a canvass bag with its contents,—silver coffee-pots, chocolate-dishes,
waiters trays, tankards, goblets, and candlesticks. So he shut his eyes. The sing-song girl, her fiddle broken, was beating her forehead upon the floor
and wailing: Ai, ai! Ai, ai! Spurlock—or Taber, as he called himself—sat
slumped in a chair, staring with glazed eyes at nothing, absolutely uninterested in
the confusion for which he was primarily accountable. To-morrow night
—or rather to-night, for we are fast verging on another day—I propose to lure
him out of the house by a stratagem which I am sure will prove infallible; and,
then, what so easy as to knock him on the head. Whitefriars had lost its privileges; Salisbury Court and the Savoy no
longer offered places of refuge to the debtor; and it was, therefore, doubly
requisite that the Island of Bermuda (as the Mint was termed by its occupants)
should uphold its rights, as long as it was able to do so.
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