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"If this wind holds," he told them that night at supper, after he
had announced to them their position, "we should reach Curacao
inside three days."
For three days the wind held, indeed it freshened a little on the
second, and yet when the third night descended upon them they had
still made no landfall. The Cinco Llagas was ploughing through a
sea contained on every side by the blue bowl of heaven. Captain
Blood uneasily mentioned it to Don Diego.
"It will be for to-morrow morning," he was answered with calm
conviction.
"By all the saints, it is always 'to-morrow morning' with you
Spaniards; and to-morrow never comes, my friend."
"But this to-morrow is coming, rest assured. However early you may
be astir, you shall see land ahead, Don Pedro."
Captain Blood passed on, content, and went to visit Jerry Pitt, his
patient, to whose condition Don Diego owed his chance of life. For
twenty-four hours now the fever had left the sufferer, and under
Peter Blood's dressings, his lacerated back was beginning to heal
satisfactorily.


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