ly said--
"Well, and so we're old acquaintance, ha?"
"Ay," said the young man, with another searching glance. "I was in
doubt at first, but _now_ I'm certain."
"And what's to be done?" said the Fisher.
"An hour after midnight you must put me on board -----'s boat, she'll
be abroad. They'll run a light to the masthead, for which you'll
steer. You're a good hand at the helm in a dark night and a rough
sea," was the reply.
"How, if I will not?"
"Then--_your life or mine!"_
They sprang to their feet simultaneously, and an immediate encounter
seemed inevitable.
"Psha!" said the Fisher, sinking on his seat, "what madness this is!
I was a thought warm with the liquor, and the recollections of past
times were rising on my memory. Think nothing of it. I heard those
words once before," and he ground his teeth in rage--"Yes, once--but
in a shriller voice than your's! Sometimes, too, the bastard rises to
my view; and then I smite him so--bah! give us another basin-full!" He
stuck short at vacancy, snatched the beverage from the stranger, and
drank it off. "An hour after midnight, said ye?"
"Ay--you'll see no bastards then!"
"Worse--may be--worse!" muttered the Fisher, sinking into abstraction,
and glaring wildly on the flickering embers before him.
"Why, how's this?" said the stranger. "Are your senses playing bo-peep
with the ghost of some pigeon-livered coast captain, eh? Come, take
another pull at the keg, to clear your head-lights, and tell us a bit
of your ditty."
The Fisher took another draught, and proceeded--
"About five-and-twenty years ago, a stranger came to this hut--may the
curse of God annihilate him!--"
"Amen to that," said the young man.
"He brought with him a boy and a girl, a purse of gold, and ---- the
arch fiend's tongue, to tempt me! Well, it was to take these children
out to sea--upset the boat--and lose them!"--
"And you did so!" interrupted the stranger.
"I tried--but listen. On a fine evening, I took them out: the sun sunk
rapidly
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