Octavia's Pride; or, The Missing Witness — page 116: what you’re looking at

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106 OCTAVIA'S PRIDE. we're glad enough to see the Sea Foam. Will you take us along to the Cape and put us ashore?” ‘“‘“Are we heathen?” returned Lo, indignantly. © ‘ But you must be famished, besides?” | ‘““No. We found turtle enough, and adedigpal to kill some birds. We could subsist here well enough, I suppose, in a savage fashion, but fat could dwell in such a horrible solitude?” Captain Lo sighed, and looked around to see what had become of Will Yarrel, who had come in his boat to the island. He had evidently wandered away to make his own exploration, for he was not among the sailors grouped about their shipwrecked comrades of the Lively Jane. «< We will take you on board as soon as you like,” he said, somehow so drearily that his companion started, and looked inquiringly into his face. But Captain Lo was not inclined to be communicative. ‘“T don’t know but you will feel as if you were taking a Jonah on board the Sea Foam,” said the latter, doubtfully, ‘Cand faith! Pye had some such thought myself. Curse that passenger! to think all those poor fellows and the mate, as smart a seaman as ever trod a deck, may be gone to Davy’s locker, and he is safe, sticking still in our way I was a fool to let any money induce me to take him.” cA passenger?” said Captain Lo, inguiringly. «¢Yes, and a queer kind of one, too. If you'll believe it, we knew nothing about it until the night before we sailed, and then a boat came alongside, and a queer cove, mufiled up to the eyes, came aboard and offered me double pay to take a passenger out to Rio, and the fellow was only to come . at the last minute. I might as well make a clean breast of it. I knew very well it looked like suspicious work, but I let the cursed money blind my eyes, and I’ve got my pay.” Captain Lo seized his hand, and shook it vigorously, . --- comicbooks co