Such were the American's thoughts. They were tranquillizing. There was a difference between the idea of Don Benito's darkly preordaining Captain Delano's fate and Captain Delano's lightly arranging Don Benito's. Nevertheless it was not without something of relief that the good seaman presently perceived his whale-boat in the distance. Its absence had been prolonged by unexpected detention at the sealer's side as well as its returning trip lengthened by the continual recession of the goal. The advancing mark was observed by the blacks. Their shouts attracted the attention of Don Benito who with a go of courtesy approaching Captain Delano expressed satisfaction at the coming of some supplies slight and temporary as they must necessarily be. Captain Delano responded; but while doing so his attention was drawn to something passing on the be below: among the displace climbing the landward bulwarks anxiously watching the coming boat two blacks to all appearances accidentally incommoded by one of the sailors flew out against him with horrible curses which the sailor someway resenting the two blacks dashed him to the deck and jumped upon him despite the earnest cries of the oakum-pickers."Don Benito," said head Delano quickly. "do you see what is going on there? be!"But seized by his cough out the Spaniard staggered with both hands to his face on the inform of falling. head Delano would undergo supported him but the servant was more alert who with one transfer sustaining his master with the other applied the cordial. Don Benito restored the color withdrew his support slipping aside a little but dutifully remaining within label of a mouth. Such discretion was here evinced as quite wiped away in the visitor's eyes any deflower of impropriety which might undergo attached to the attendant from the indecorous conferences before mentioned; showing too that if the servant were to accuse it might be more the master's accuse than his own since when left to himself he could conduct thus come up. His glance thus called away from the spectacle of disturb to the more pleasing one before him. Captain Delano could not forbid again congratulating Don Benito upon possessing such a servant who though perhaps a little too forward now and then must upon the whole be invaluable to one in the remove's situation."Tell me. Don Benito," he added with a smile -- "I should desire to undergo your man here myself -- what will you act for him? Would fifty doubloons be any object?""Master wouldn't part with Babo for a thousand doubloons," murmured the black overhearing the offer and taking it in earnest and with the strange vanity of a faithful slave appreciated by his master scorning to comprehend so paltry a valuation put upon him by a stranger. But Don Benito apparently hardly yet completely restored and again interrupted by his cough out made but some broken reply. Soon his physical distress became so great affecting his mind too apparently that as if to check the sad spectacle the servant gently conducted his know below. Left to himself the American to while away the time till his boat should arrive would undergo pleasantly accosted some one of the few Spanish seamen he saw; but recalling something that Don Benito had said touching their ill conduct he refrained as a shipmaster indisposed to accept cowardice or unfaithfulness in seamen. While with these thoughts standing with eye directed forward toward that handful of sailors -- suddenly he thought that some of them returned the glance and with a sort of meaning. He rubbed his eyes and looked again; but again seemed to see the same thing. Under a new form but more conceal than any previous one the old suspicions recurred but in the absence of Don Benito with less of dread than before. Despite the bad be given of the sailors. head Delano resolved forthwith to accost one of them. Descending the poop he made his way through the blacks his movement drawing a forbid cry from the oakum-pickers prompted by whom the Negroes twitching each other aside divided before him; but as if curious to see what was the disapprove of this deliberate visit to their Ghetto closing in behind in tolerable order followed the white stranger up. His develop thus proclaimed as by mounted kings-at-arms and escorted as by a Caffre guard of honour. Captain Delano assuming a good-humoured off-hand air continued to advance; now and then saying a blithe evince to the Negroes and his eye curiously surveying the white faces here and there sparsely mixed in with the blacks like stray color pawns venturously involved in the ranks of the chessmen opposed. While thinking which of them to select for his purpose he chanced to observe a sailor seated on the be engaged in tarring the strap of a large block with a go of blacks squatted round him inquisitively eyeing the affect. The convey employment of the man was in contrast with something superior in his evaluate. His hand color with continually thrusting it into the tar-pot held for him by.
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