His Other Wife: A Novel — page 223: what you’re looking at

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MAN TO MAN. 215 nois for his falseness and baseness in placing her in such a position. ‘* How did you hear all this ?” ‘I was lying in the moonlight, behind some coils of Tope, near Where they sat down, and, not wishing to em- barrass them or discommode myself, I remained quiet, and got the benefit of their talk. She hates him—you must have seen that.” ‘“Yes; but I saw something else as well—he loves her, and forty cable chains could not have drawn him from this ship if he had known it was to part him from her. I say, capn, you're a deep one—but I know you!” ‘‘What do you mean?” ‘Well, shas—if you'll pardon plain talk. You may have done the girl a service by leaving the creole behind— and I think you have; but if you think me so great an ass as not to know why you left him w#houl his leave, you ve known Graff Conway to precious little purpose.” ‘«See here, mate,” said Valasco, squaring his tall, brawny frame right in front of Conway, ‘‘/’m captain of the Madcap, and her passengers are my affair—do you understand ?” ; There was no mistaking the meaning of .the devilish scowl on the captain’s black brows, and Conway knew richt well that an adamantine purpose lay underneath those sinister remarks. But the grizzly old tar was not the man to hold his peace for either bark or bite of the fierce wolf he knew Valasco to be when his darker passions were Eomicbooks:¢o