His announcement startled them back to realities.
"You will be merciful with him. You will spare him all you can for
my sake, Peter," she pleaded.
"To be sure I will," said Blood. "But I'm afraid the circumstances
won't."
She effaced herself, escaping into the garden, and Major Mallard
fetched the Colonel.
"His excellency the Governor will see you now," said he, and threw
wide the door.
Colonel Bishop staggered in, and stood waiting.
At the table sat a man of whom nothing was visible but the top of
a carefully curled black head. Then this head was raised, and a
pair of blue eyes solemnly regarded the prisoner. Colonel Bishop
made a noise in his throat, and, paralyzed by amazement, stared
into the face of his excellency the Deputy-Governor of Jamaica,
which was the face of the man he had been hunting in Tortuga to
his present undoing.
The situation was best expressed to Lord Willoughby by van der
Kuylen as the pair stepped aboard the Admiral's flagship.
"Id is fery boedigal!" he said, his blue eyes twinkling.
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