Penny Dreadfuls, 1867 · page 93 of 300
Roving Jack, The Pirate Hunter — page 93: what you’re looking at
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This page contains both an illustration and running prose from a Victorian penny dreadful titled "Roving Jack, the Pirate Hunter." The engraved illustration depicts a scene labeled "Timely Assistance," showing several figures in period dress on what appears to be a ship or dock, with one man presenting jewels and documents to another. The text below consists of dialogue between characters named Ovieda and Gonzalvo, in which Ovieda offers financial assistance—jewels, money, and signed bank papers—to the desperate Gonzalvo, who has fled his house and had his property seized, proposing they escape by sea to Spain.
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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 (