All being now settled they made ready for sea, and on the very eve
of sailing, Levasseur narrowly escaped being shot in a romantic
attempt to scale the wall of the Governor's garden, with the object
of taking passionate leave of the infatuated Mademoiselle d'Ogeron.
He desisted after having been twice fired upon from a fragrant
ambush of pimento trees where the Governor's guards were posted,
and he departed vowing to take different and very definite measures
on his return.
That night he slept on board his ship, which with characteristic
flamboyance he had named La Foudre, and there on the following day
he received a visit from Captain Blood, whom he greeted
half-mockingly as his admiral. The Irishman came to settle certain
final details of which all that need concern us is an understanding
that, in the event of the two vessels becoming separated by accident
or design, they should rejoin each other as soon as might be at
Tortuga.
Thereafter Levasseur entertained his admiral to dinner, and jointly
they drank success to the expedition, so copiously on the part of
Levasseur that when the time came to separate he was as nearly drunk
as it seemed possible for him to be and yet retain his understanding.
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