Roving Jack, The Pirate Hunter — page 93: what you’re looking at

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— ROVING. JACK, THE PIRATE HUNT ER. mn | fl] ) | | MH 7 af, iy fr 4 oo oS ZZ —— = * —— TIMELY ASSISTANCE. Surprise possessed the features of both. “Where the devil did you spring from?’ in- quired Ovieda. Gonzalvo agitated, exclaimed— _ “T have been obliged to fly from my own house ; it is filled with enemies. What am I now?—a proscribed murderer. My property seized; my estate confiscated, and a price set on my head. What land will now give me shelter ?” ~ “No land at all,” rejoined Ovieda. “ You must give up your land freaks, and take to the water. It’s better to run the chance of being drowned than being me You are not quite a beggar ye 0. 15, however ; but you may thank my intrepidity for that. Look! here is a casket of jewels worth more than a trifle; here’s a couple of bags of piastres, and cursed heavy I found them, too ; and here are some bank papers, made payable to you—wanting nothing but your signature, They are good in any part of Spain, therefore we must give them a good spread of canvas, and get them passed at some dis- tant port before the news of your disaster gets known abroad, I’ve a devilish clever fellow on board that does our exchauge business.”’ _Gonzalvo listened to Ovieda with a vacant d hardly seemed to notice what he said, WOO E (