His Other Wife: A Novel — page 295: what you’re looking at

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* FAITH? S DELIVERANCE. 287 chief; but ere she could question further she was borne on deck, and there, in full view, stood the lights and the dimly outlined rigging of a splendid steamer. She was still some miles away, but the cutter was head- ing toward her before a gale of wind that took her flying like a gull over the starlit waves. — The Madcap’s. signals were all out, and Conway assured Faith that all doubt was over of her safe transmission to the steamer within a very short time. Seeing, from several of her remarks, that she was un- conscious of the dark fate of the captain, the old man allowed her to believe that nothing serious had happened. He had gathered enough from Morad’s signs and words of mongrel lingo, to understand that the Malay had inter- posed to save her from danger. The rest was simple. Immediately on dispatching the captain, Morad has- tened to release the mate, to whom he confided the fact ‘that, contrary to the captain’s orders, he had changed the cutters course in consequence of having overheard the conversation between them ; and that, in perpetrating this act of disobedience, he had prepared himself to carry out his purpose at all hazards. He foresaw that before the night ended he would have to kill Valasco, but was not . prepared for the circumstances which led to that horrid climax. They suited the Malay’s idea of a perfect act of retaliation all the better. . | The first pale gleam of dawn was in the sky when the cutter ran alongside the magnificent European steamship (E(@) Eomicbooks: