Beadle's Dime Novels No. 87: On the Deep — page 57: what you’re looking at

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THE CAVE. 59 the rock, crouching behind a heap of dry brushwood. From this position he could see the schooner, lying with her topsail aback and her jibs hauled down. Her rigging and yards were alive with men looking toward the smaller island. Upon the latter, Capstan saw, quite distinctly, the figures of her boat’s crew moving hither and thither: occasionally, he heard a yell of disappointment. “Ay, ay,” he muttered, “ you -may s’arch and s’arch until doomsday, but you'll find nothing there !” Half an hour afterward the Mulays, having examined every part of the island, were gathered upon the summit of the headland. _Capstan concluded that they were holding a con- sultation. 3 “They don’t like to give us up,” ke said, mentally. “The trick, that I sarved one of their boat’s crews has worked ’em up to a high pitch, and made ’em eager for revenge. They haven’t done looking for us yet.” A moment later, he saw them returning to the schooner in their boat. : “ Oan it be possible that they have eiven. us up,’ he mut- tered. “I can hardly believe it, and yet it would. seem so, by the way that boat is steering.” Suddenly, he pointed his glass in another direction. <A canoe shooting out from behind one of the promontories of the larger island, and containing a single individual, was naturally calculated to attract his attention. The vessel was heading directly for the schooner, which its occupant seemed in a great hurry to reach. A. sudden suspicion flashed across the mind of the skipper. ~ Who was the native in the canoe ? The glass was not powerful enough to enable Capstan iD distinguish his features, but his bowed figure was certainly not unlike that of Mono, the interpreter. What business had he with the schooner? Perhaps he only wished to bargain with its crew for tobacco and cloth. It was quite customary for the Pacific Islanders to do this ; to exchange the products of their fruitful soil for some of the many useful articles contained in the vessels that visited their wild shores. Nevertheless, Capstan could not rid himself of his suspicions. He had felt a presentiment of evil ever since commicbooks.com