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48 THE OvEAN OUTLAW. them, and one pair of ears had gathered most of th efr con- Versition; in ot er words, Rollins, true to his trast, hal kept vigilant wateh in the absence of his master. He hear.J with surprise the. young Englishman speak of receiving information concerning. their camp from a Spiniart—for, ns the reader already knows, Granger was tie only person from whom the buccaneers feare] betrayal—aal the knowledge of a plurality of trailors was anything but agreealil@ to this. silent spy, He puzzle). his brains a long tine to think who his new enemy could -be, withont coming to any satisfactory conelusion—as there were several Spaniards connected with the ban.l. **T believe the devil has deserted his own followers!" he muttcred, as he descended from his post of observa- tion: ** Here is another snake in the grass it seems—one of those Spaniards, I suppose—he will be sure to hunt up Steve Granger, and between them they will plot eut our certvin desiruction. Curse the Inck, One thing, they won't get hol | of Ralph Grey just yet. Lam glad he went away when he did.” While uttering this soliloquy, Tatlins was creeping along a narrow slielf in the rock, overlanging the chan- nel, anxions to obiain a nearer view of the departing boat, that was slowly making its way through the narrow pis- sage, and would seon be directly beneath him, In many places the ahelf was intersected by jutting points, aroun | which it was impossible to pass, without the assistance of tongh bushes that.sprung from the crevice in the rock, as if on purpose to aid him in his perilous journey. But it certninly seemed as if the Fates were in leagve against the buceancers—for, while passing ohe of these points, a@ bush, on which Rollins hai trusted all his weight, came up by the roots, and down comes the man, splash into the water, almost under the bow of Howard's buat. _ »» * Whatin the n= e of wonder was that?” sail Allen, % starting up quicxiy, and looking inteatly at tue spot e ¥, cComicbhooks:¢om