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So far, indeed, was he recovered that he complained
of his confinement, of the heat in his cabin. To indulge him Captain
Blood consented that he should take the air on deck, and so, as the
last of the daylight was fading from the sky, Jeremy Pitt came forth
upon the Captain's arm.
Seated on the hatch-coamings, the Somersetshire lad gratefully
filled his lungs with the cool night air, and professed himself
revived thereby. Then with the seaman's instinct his eyes wandered
to the darkling vault of heaven, spangled already with a myriad
golden points of light. Awhile he scanned it idly, vacantly; then,
his attention became sharply fixed. He looked round and up at
Captain Blood, who stood beside him.
"D'ye know anything of astronomy, Peter?" quoth he.
"Astronomy, is it? Faith, now, I couldn't tell the Belt of Orion
from the Girdle of Venus."
"Ah! And I suppose all the others of this lubberly crew share
your ignorance."
"It would be more amiable of you to suppose that they exceed it."
Jeremy pointed ahead to a spot of light in the heavens over the
starboard bow.


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