Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 146: what you’re looking at

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140 Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. hear that John o’ Compton and his crew of cut-throats had all been sent to that same Davy Jones’s locker for which he had des- tined me; but he assured me that when he had communicated with them after the first confusion and alarm had passed, they had declared that their damages were slight and easily remedied, and that as he was in especial haste he had consequently continued his course, leaving them to attend to their own repairs. Two days afterwards we anchored off Dub- lin, and Captain Delavigne, having ascer- tained that James had marched to the north- ward to encounter King William, who was advancing south from Carrickfergus, deter- mined to proceed in person to deliver his despatches, and to take me with him. We left on the fifth of July, but as we were nearing our journey’s end, about nine of the clock the following morning, we perceived the plain and roads ahead of us covered with foot-soldiers in maddened flight, and gather- ing from one as he dashed past that James was defeated and all was lost, my companion declined the risk of forcing a passage through comichbooks.com