"
His utter frankness, and the easy manner of one who has nothing to
conceal resolved at once the doubt that had leapt so suddenly in
the mind of Captain Blood. Pitt was satisfied less easily.
"In that case, Don Diego, will you tell me, since Curacao is our
destination, why our course is what it is?"
Again there was no faintest hesitation on Don Diego's part. "You
have reason to ask," said he, and sighed. "I had hope' it would not
be observe'. I have been careless - oh, of a carelessness very
culpable. I neglect observation. Always it is my way. I make too
sure. I count too much on dead reckoning. And so to-day I find
when at last I take out the quadrant that we do come by a half-degree
too much south, so that Curacao is now almost due north. That is
what cause the delay. But we will be there to-morrow."
The explanation, so completely satisfactory, and so readily and
candidly forthcoming, left no room for further doubt that Don Diego
should have been false to his parole. And when presently Don Diego
had withdrawn again, Captain Blood confessed to Pitt that it was
absurd to have suspected him.
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