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DINNY CONSENTS. 245 ‘‘He’s gone mad, I tell you all; and if you like to choose a captain for yourselves, choose one, and I'll follow him like a man ; but it’s time something was done if we want to live.” Another burst of murmurs rose here. ‘¢ He’s mad, I tell you, or he wouldn’t keep him like that. So what’s it to be, my lads, a new captain or the yard-arm }” CHAPTER XXVII. DINNY CONSENTS. THE time glided on, and Humphrey always knew when his captor was at sea, for the severity of his imprisonment was then most felt. The heutenant, Mazzard, was always left in charge of the place, but Bart remained behind by the captain’s orders, and at these times Humphrey was sternly ordered to keep to his prison. Dinny came and went, but, try him how he would, Hum- phrey could get nothing from him for days and days. The tide turned at last. ‘Well, sor,” said Dinny one morning, “ I’ve been thinking it over a great dale. I don’t like desarting the captain, who has been like a brother to me; but there’s Misthress Green- heys, and love’s a wonderful excuse for a manny things.” “Yes,” said Humphrey, eagerly, “go on.” ‘Sure, sor, she’s compelled to be married like to a man she hates, and it hurts her falings as much as it does mine, and she wants me to get her away and make a rale marriage of it, such as a respectable woman likes; for ye see, all against her will, Gomicbooks =