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194 SERPENT AND DOVE. Minorcan, with whom and the mate he afterward withdrew to the deck. Here he discussed with the two men the chances of being carried ashore. He discovered enough from their talk to inform him that the unhappy chance had cast him aboard a Spanish smuggling vessel; that the two foreigners were her owners, and composed her sole crew; that they could in no wise be induced to touch at the city of —, neither to under- take the task of putting him ashore with his charge, and that the utmost he could obtain from them was a conces- sion to land him at the next port-on the coast. After this, the creole walked apart in troubled self- communings, and, revolving the situation under all its aspects. through his dark brain, he suddenly arrived at the desperate determination to turn the accident to“he fulfill- ment of his own designs in regard to Faith Hilary. While he would have shrunk from the cold-blooded planning and execution of such a scheme as the tissue of circumstances by which he had arrived at the present trying situation, he did not hesitate long about closing with the fiendish temptation of using it to compass his end. ik | Yet it was a doubtful aswell as most delicate enterprise. This one hope of reconciling the sensitive girl to the fate he proposed for her, lay jn operating so powerfully on her sympathies, and appealing so strongly to her womanhood, as to establish her faith in his reverence for her character cComicbooks.com