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2380 COMMODORE JUNK. where there’s nayther spring, summer, autumn, nor winther— nothing but a sort of moshposh of sunshine and howling thun- derstorms.” « And 53 ‘‘ Yis, sor, that’s it. I’m a fallen man.” “¢ And will you really help me to escape ?” “ Whisht, sor! What are ye thinking about? Spaking aloud in a counthry where the parrots can talk like Christians and the threes is full of ugly little chaps, who sit and watch ye and say nothing, but howld toight wid their tails, and thin go and whishper their saycrets to one another, and look as know- ing as Barny Higgins’s pig.” Dinny, will you speak sensibly ?” “Sinsibly! Why, what d’ye call this? Ar’n’t I tellin’ ye that it’s been too much for me wid Black Mazzard shut up in his cage and the purty widow free to do as she plases; and sure and she plases me, sor, and I’m a fallen man.” You'll help me?” “‘'Yis, sor, if yell go down on your bended knees and take an oath.” | “Oath! What oath?” “ Niver to bethray or take part in annything agen Commo- dore Junk, the thruest, bravest boy that iver stepped.” ‘You are right, Dinny. He 1s a brave man, and I swear that I will not betray or attack him, come what may. Get me my liberty and the liberty of my men, and I'll be content. Stop! I cannot go so far as that; there are my men. I swear that I will not attack your captain without giving him due notice, that he may escape; but this nest of hornets must be burned out, and my men freed.” «“ Ah, well, we won't haggle about thrifles, sor. Swear this, sor :—Ye'll behave to the captain like a gintleman.,” ‘7 swear I will.” Gomichbooksrceo —2)