At the time I was less frightened than I have often been since in thinking over it. The others were more alarmed for me than I was for myself, and I heard Mr. Sims and old Muzzy urging upon Rupert to let the matter go no further. But this he would not now hear of, and in the state of mind I was then in I should have been little better satisfied than he to have had the affair patched up.
At last they saw it was of no use to seek an accommodation between us, and they withdrew together to settle how we were to fight, Captain Sims, as I understood, acting4 in my cousin’s interest, while the boatswain did the same office for me.
While they were discussing it, which it took them [Pg 42]some time to do, Rupert and I sat on opposite sides of the room. He put on a great air of indifference5, talking familiarly with those of his friends who stood about him, while I could do nothing but stare across at him with a horrible fascination7, as the man by whose hand, in all likelihood, I was to die within the next half-hour. I remember noting for the first time what a finely formed person he had, tall and supple8 as a lath of steel. As far as that went I was no weakling, and I have been told that at that time we greatly resembled each other, though I do not think I can ever have shared my cousin’s good looks.
I was becoming feverish9 over the delay of our seconds, if such they can be called, when they rose from their corner, and the boatswain came across to me with a very grave air, Mr. Sims at the same time going over to Rupert.
“We have arranged,” the boatswain said to me, in a serious voice, “that you are to fight out at sea. A boat is to be moored10 to the buoy11 off the mouth of the river, and you will be rowed out and put into it together, one at each end. You are to be armed with cutlasses and left there together. There will be a pair of sculls on board, and the one who kills the other will throw his body overboard, so as to leave no trace, and then row ashore13. If the boat does not return at the end of an hour, we shall come out to her to see what has happened. Do you agree to this?”
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He spoke14 these words in a distinct, loud voice, so as to be overheard by those who stood next. Then, before I could answer, he bent15 over quickly and laid his lips to my ear, whispering—
“Refuse it, boy, refuse it! It will be a narrow match enough between you with the cutlass, which was the weapon I stuck out for for your sake. But out in a trumpery16 rocking boat, with you a landlubber against a man that has been at sea these ten years, I would not give a farden for your life.”
He said this with many strong oaths, for I honestly believe the old pirate had got an affection for me. But he wasted his breath as far as I was concerned, my pride being then too fierce to admit of my shrinking from any terms that might be offered by the other side.
“Tell them I accept,” I said sullenly17, “and make no more ado about it. How soon can we reach this place?”
The old fellow cursed me roundly for an obstinate18, bloody19-minded young fool.
“Give me a hug,” he wound up by saying, “for blast me if you ain’t a youngster after my own heart!” And he fell to and embraced me heartily20, kissing me on both cheeks, and shedding tears plentifully21; for he was three-parts drunk, and clearly looked upon me as a dead man.
And in that light I saw that the company present regarded me, my cousin’s prowess being well known by many duels23 which he had fought in the past; and [Pg 44]though I had pretty well made up my mind that I was to die, I suffered no small discouragement and chagrin24 from the compassionate25 looks which were cast upon me. My old enemy, Trickster Tim, also thought this a safe occasion to insult me, coming up close before me and peering into my face, as if I were already so much carrion26. Nor had I the spirit to resent his insolence27.
Captain Sims now led the way out of the house, holding Rupert by the arm, while I followed with my friend. The rest of the crew swarmed28 out after us, but old Muzzy sharply ordered them back, taking only two men to pull the oars29, for we had a long way to row before the buoy could be reached.
It was a miserable30 voyage for me, sitting there in the stern, not three paces from Rupert, shivering in the cold night air, and perhaps from fear as well, as we dropped slowly down the river, past the black piles of the landing jetties and the sleeping ships. Our course was lit only by the stars, save where a ship’s light cast a sickly gleam upon the water as we approached it, and faded away as we rowed on. The whole way I never once opened my lips, but the others talked together in low voices, turning themselves away from me in the same manner as if I were a convict being led to execution. And as for my own thoughts, they were distracted enough, especially when I called to mind my dear mother and my good and upright father, and how little they imagined the business in which I was now [Pg 45]engaged. These reflections so softened31 me that I believe if my cousin had made the least move towards a reconcilement my whole wrath32 would have melted away. But no doubt he had made up his mind that only my death could restore his authority amongst the ruffians whom he led.
At last our dreary33 passage was ended, and we were arrived at the place agreed on for the encounter. We had towed down a smaller boat in our wake, and this they now fastened to the buoy, and we stepped into it, Rupert at the bows and I at the stern. Then the boatswain gripped my hand for the last time, whispering to me to beware of Gurney’s upper-cut, and so they bade us farewell and rowed off quickly in the darkness, like men who would avoid the sight of a murder.
So there were we, left alone in that frail34 compartment35, out there upon the heaving water, with nothing but death in our hearts. I had but time to breathe a prayer, which I did with some misgiving36 as to how it would be received, when my cousin drew his cutlass and stepped into the centre of the boat. I rose to meet him with my weapon in my hand, and we stood there facing one another, with only the width of the seat between us.
“Are you ready?” says Rupert quickly. And before I had time to answer he brought down his cutlass with such force that unless I had guarded it the blade would have split open my head.
It was now that I had reason to be thankful for [Pg 46]the lessons I had received at the hands of the boatswain, for Rupert’s blows came so thick and fast that I had all I could do to parry them. I bore his last caution to me in mind, and soon found the importance of it, for though my cousin made many feints at my shoulder and other parts of my body, yet the only blow into which he put his real force was the upper-cut at my head.
I kept my eyes fixed37 upon his, as I had been taught, and soon saw a savage38 light arising therein when he found he made so little impression on me. Indeed, if we had fought on firm ground I believe that, as the boatswain said, I should have been his match, but the rocking of the boat gave him an advantage, and presently he pursued a feint further than I expected, and gave me a gash39 of about three inches long in my left thigh40.
The first smart of the wound made me gasp41 for breath, but the next moment it had so raised my fury that I left off the defensive42 and fell upon my enemy with all my might, hitting and slashing43 so desperately44 that, do what he would, I broke down his guard and laid open his forehead over his right eye, and the blood began to trickle45 down his face.
This transformed his own anger into a tempest, and now, indeed, we went at it more like two savages46 than Christian47 men. For the cutlass, by the very reason that it is not so deadly an instrument as the small-sword, is capable of inflicting48 [Pg 47]a very great many wounds before any fatal effect takes place. And so, becoming less heedful of our guard as we warmed to it, we wounded each other all over the body in a most desperate manner, till my cousin seemed to me to be covered with blood from head to foot, and I can have been little better, for I felt the blood running from me at above a dozen places.
My enemy was the first to see the folly49 of this, for he began to change his tactics, drawing back from my assault and keeping on the defensive till he should lure50 me on to give him an advantage. And in this at length he had nearly succeeded, but happening to forget the seat which lay behind him in the bows of the boat, he overbalanced himself against it and fell backwards51, still gripping his weapon in his hand.
I scorned to take advantage of this accident, but stayed where I was to give him time to get up. He lay upon his back for a minute, glaring sullenly at me to see if I would kill him. But finding that I had no such mind he recovered himself nimbly enough. And being, no doubt, still further enraged52 at this accident having put him, as it were, into my power, he now made at me with the most terrible vehemence53, raining down blows upon me sufficient to have felled an ox. And then in the midst of it all, while I was warding54 off his fury, and the sparks flew from our weapons every instant, I suddenly felt my hand jarred as though I had touched a [Pg 48]conger, and the blade of my cutlass snapped off at the hilt with a crash, and I stood there at his mercy.
He stopped short, as much astonished as I was, while I sank down on the seat next the stern, ready to sob55, and put up my hands before my face.
“That cursed Jew has cheated me of my life!” I groaned56 between my set teeth.
Rupert rested the point of his cutlass upon the seat in front of him and looked over at me curiously57.
“Young man,” he said, “your life is forfeit58 to me, and it hath never been said that Rupert Gurney spared an enemy. Yet, inasmuch as you are of my blood and but raw in the world, I have half a mind to make terms with you. Will you make your apology for the violence you put upon me in the tavern59, and swear to repeat its terms before all those who were witnesses of our dispute?”
I looked up at him and smiled bitterly in his face.
“Do you understand me so little, and you a Ford60 by the mother’s side?” I answered him. “Now that I have no weapon you may murder me if you will, but apology you shall have none from me—unless,” I added, “you take back your insult to the woman I love.”
“You young fool!” he ground out savagely61. “That drab you make such a to-do about has been mine this two months past.”
I leave it unsaid how these words affected62 me, both then and for long afterwards. For up to that [Pg 49]moment I had looked upon the girl with as pure a reverence63 as any boy ever cherished for a maid, and my cousin’s vile64 boast, cast it back to him as I might, sank into my mind and worked there like a poison.
“I believe you lie,” I said to him with marvellous coldness. For what with the loss of blood, and the despair which had seized upon me at the breaking of my weapon, and the news I had just received, I was become quite dispirited, and was indifferent to what he might do with me.
“Die, then, since you will have me kill you!” he exclaimed, and began advancing down the boat towards me.
But as he stepped over the middle seat it chanced that he struck his foot against one of the oars which lay along the boat’s bottom; and the rattling65 of this oar12 put a new thought into my mind.
It so happened that I had been used to play with the quarterstaff at home, and old Sugden, the rat-catcher, who was esteemed66 the greatest proficient67 in this sort of exercise in our part of the country, had had many a bout6 with me, in which, before I ran away, he had been forced to confess that I was very well able to cope with him. Now, therefore, in my extremity68, seeing death so near at hand—for up to this moment I had hardly believed that my cousin would kill me—I made shift to snatch at an oar, and drawing it to me just in time put myself in a posture69 of defence before he could strike me.
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He drew back, greatly astounded70, and swore beneath his breath.
“What fool’s game is this, boy? Would you break honour with me? We were agreed to fight with cutlasses.”
“And now that my cutlass is broke foully71 you would take and murder me!” I retorted, and being now incensed72 at his bloodthirstiness, after I had once spared his life, I cursed him in the face for a coward.
This was more than he could bear. He leaped across the seat, with his head stooped, to come inside the sweep of my weapon, but this was a trick I had had experience of, and though I found my oar very heavy and cumbrous I yet managed to repulse73 him with a crack on the head. And immediately he raised his cutlass to strike back I caught him a very smart blow on the knuckles74, and sent his weapon flying over the side of the boat into the water, where it instantly sank.
By this time I think we were both too furious to be willing to end the combat without one or the other’s death. Rupert, as soon as he knew what had happened, fairly sprang upon me, and clutched my throat, bearing me down with him into the boat. Here he knelt above me, squeezing my windpipe, and emitting horrid75 snarls76 like a wild beast. My senses began to forsake77 me, and I was as good as lost, when, by the direct mercy of Providence78, my right hand encountered the blade of my own cutlass, [Pg 51]lying close beside us, which I instantly snatched at, and plunged79 as hard as I could thrust into Rupert’s side. And with that, feeling his fingers relax themselves as he tottered80 sideways from off me, I raised myself half up, lifted him by the thighs81, and cast him clean over the side of the boat into the sea. And that done I sank down again in a bloody swoon, and perceived nothing more.
It was, as I learned, above a week afterwards when I fully22 came to myself, and discovered that I was lying in my former garret at the “Three-decker.” There was an old woman coming into the room to wait upon me, who told me that I had been brought ashore on the night of the duel by men wearing masks; and one of them, whom she knew by his voice and carriage to be the boatswain of the Fair Maid, had given money out of his pocket for me to be taken care of till such time as I should recover.
In the state of weakness to which I was reduced I shed tears at hearing of this kindness on the part of that rough man, who was, I sadly feared, a great scoundrel, of most villainous evil life. My next business was to ask what had become of him and the rest of the Fair Maid’s crew.
“The Fair Maid sailed yesterday,” the crone answered. “They warped82 her out on the afternoon ebb83. ’Tis said she sails under a privateer’s commission against the French.”
I scarce knew whether to be glad of this news, or [Pg 52]sorry. I told myself that I could hardly have looked for a welcome among those men after being the means of their lieutenant’s death; and, moreover, I had learnt enough of their character to feel strongly averse84 to a cruise in such company. Yet they were the only friends I had, and I was grown used to them; and the thought that I was left there, as it were, alone, with nothing to turn to, made me very dismal85 after all.
It seemed somewhat strange to me, during the rest of that day, that Marian had never once come to inquire for me; but I put off speaking about it to the morrow. In the morning I awoke greatly refreshed, and feeling well enough to leave my bed, which I did, and came down into the bar of the house to look for her.
I found only her uncle, a weazened, peevish86 man, who had showed himself very little while the privateersmen were about his house. I bade him a courteous87 good morrow.
“Good morrow t’ye,” he snapped out churlishly. “I’m glad to see you’re about again, as I daresay you know your reckoning has run out.”
This I did not believe, but thought it beneath me to pick a quarrel with such a man. Besides, he was Marian’s uncle.
“Any charges you may have against me shall be fairly met,” I answered proudly. “But where is Mistress Marian? I have not seen her these two days.”
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“And you’re not like to see her again, I take it,” he returned disagreeably. “At least, not in my house; I’ve had enough of the impudent88 baggage.”
“What are you saying, man?” I demanded, much dismayed. “You need not miscall your own niece, I should think. But what of her? Do you mean she has left you?”
“Aye, what else should I mean? And right glad I am to be rid of such a trollop, drawing all the rapscallions of the port in here, and bringing my tavern into disrepute.”
He spoke so bitterly that I believe he was trying to talk himself into thinking he had profited by her departure. For in reality she had brought him the chief part of his custom, and there was at that moment, as I could perceive, not a soul in the tavern beside ourselves. But I did not stop to reflect on this.
“Where has she gone? What has happened?” I questioned breathlessly, with a terrible fear in my heart.
“Nay, whither she has gone is more than I can tell you, for as likely as not the jade89 has lied to me. But she left this place two days ago, in the afternoon, and all the account she gave me was that she had taken her passage in the Fair Maid for her father’s house in Calcutta.”
I fell down on a bench, like a man stunned90, and groaned aloud. Then I sprang to my feet again and made for the door.
“I will follow her!” I cried out madly. “If she has gone to the end of the world I will go after her, and all the devils in hell shall not hold me back!”
And leaving the man there, staring at me as if he thought I was crazed, I ran out of the house, and so stumbled right into the arms of a pressgang come ashore off a king’s ship which had that morning dropped anchor in Yarmouth Roads.
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kinsman
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indifference
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sullenly
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