The Emir was standing4 up in his stirrups to listen. He sank into his saddle again, and issued some further orders, in Arabic. Most of his force on foot in the rear made off at a staggering run. The horses of his body-guard began to paw and curvet to free their feet as the loose reins5 tightened6 on their necks.
"I must be going now, my fine doctor," said the Emir most reluctantly, "but I'll leave you company enough for the few minutes you've left, although you're but a dumb dog!
"And you'll maybe think of me when you're swallowing your first mouthful. Till then you can mourn her-you-know-of."
The white horse leaped and plunged8 as though he had rowelled it cruelly, and then he was gone at a breakneck gallop9, the white shadows that were his body-guard hard at his heels, with lances free.
The grave-diggers paused in their digging as he disappeared. A dozen or more tongues broke into eager talking, and a fiendish, squealing10 laugh out-shrilled them all. Sallie, with her face between her elbows, had thrust a finger into each ear, and her eyes were tightly closed.
She opened them a little, involuntarily, as the heavy arm that had been holding her down was taken away. Reuben Yoxall nudged her, and she looked round, with infinite caution.
A blue-light, like a corpse-candle in the distance, had suddenly flared12 up on the near ridge13 above the ravine that led to the camp. And in its ghastly glow an unforgettable picture was vaguely14 visible for a moment or two.
The last of the Emir's mounted men were streaming after him into the gorge15, between whose open jaws16 lay three prone17, trampled18 bodies, two very still, the other writhing19 round and round on the axis20 of a long lance.
The breakers on the beach beyond the intervening sand-waves reared up, and combed, and fell in blue-green foam21. Outside them a black sea heaved ceaselessly.
Inland, a segment of the circular rock-rampart which enclosed the camp loomed22 up above the endless, empty desert, and on its summit showed a number of white-clad, crouching23 figures with rifles, all firing inward and downward on the pandemonium24 raging below.
Only a few yards away from where the two helpless onlookers25 lay the man in the scarlet26 mask was standing, his hands behind him, between the two big negroes Sallie had seen in the Emir's tent. And, grouped about them, staring at the blue-light with wide eyes, were a dozen or more armed Arabs. Two other negroes, knee-deep in a hole, were leaning on their spades.
Farther off, beside the lagoon27 where the boats were lying, the third mate and his men were making the best fight they might for their lives against overwhelming odds28. More than one of them had already fallen before the blue-light guttered29 away and that inferno30 was blotted31 out.
But the renewed darkness lasted only for a few seconds before the search-light on the bridge of the Olive Branch in the bight answered the signal from the ridge, cutting through the inky night a long, white, fan-like swathe which swept the coast in sections until it finally found its objective and settled there.
The group about the half-dug grave were at first almost paralysed with fear of that phenomenon. The two black eunuchs seized their prisoner and pulled him to the ground, the men of the guard took cover, with rifles ready, the grave-diggers dropped incontinently into the grave and cowered32 there.
But when, after its first gyrations, it steadied on to the ridge round the camp, leaving them quite unharmed and outside its focus, they fell to talking again, in awed33 whispers, while they gazed blinkingly at its effect, all but the two who were busy digging again.
Yoxall plucked at Sallie's sleeve. She crept after him, and by very slow degrees they got safely round in rear of the burial-party.
"Wait here," he breathed in her ear, and left her behind a low swell34 of the sand.
She crawled to its brink35. He was wriggling36 back toward the shapes silhouetted37 against the dusky light. She clenched38 both her hands tightly over her lips as he reached the one that was lying motionless, a knee upraised, quite close to the others' heels.
The upraised knee slowly straightened. One of the two negro guards looked round and kicked at their prisoner. The other spoke39, and a squealing laugh reached her ears.
Each instant seemed an eternity40 until she thought she could see Reuben Yoxall turn and begin to worm his way back toward her, with another stealthy shadow following him.
He reached her side.
"Up and run for it now, lass," he panted, and stooped and lifted her to her feet. "They can't hear us from there. For God's sake, don't give way now."
But she was quite limp and strengthless. The strain had been too much for her. He picked her up in his arms and made for their boat at an elephantine trot41, the stranger struggling along after him through the sand. She was sobbing42 brokenly when he set her down beside it.
A piercing scream rang out across the sand from the near distance, above all the other turmoil43. But he had already got the boat turned right side up and the man in the mask helped him to set it afloat. He splashed ashore44 again and carried Sallie out to it, settling her very tenderly in its stern.
"We're all right now," he told her, and she whispered back, "Oh! I'm so ashamed of myself, Rube,—I nearly fainted!"
The other man sat down in the bow and the mate stepped carefully in. A few minutes later they were beyond the bar, safe enough from pursuit.
"I'll take an oar3 now," the stranger suggested, speaking for the first time, and in a tone which showed how he had suffered. Yoxall passed him one willingly. He had over-taxed his own strength at last. He was almost exhausted45 before they at length ran alongside the Olive Branch, skirting the arc of the search-light. He could scarcely scramble46 up the rope he had left hanging from the poop.
But with the other man's help he managed to get the boat aboard and stowed away again. And they returned on deck together.
"What do you think has happened ashore, Rube?" asked Sallie very anxiously as he reappeared from below.
"I wish I knew, lass," he answered, no less concerned. "I'll go and find out what Brasse—"
"I must see Mr. Brasse too," she told him. "He's promised—" She turned to the stranger.
"The stokehold's the only place on board where you will be safe," she said, somewhat uncertainly. "Will you mind very much—"
"I'll shovel47 coal most contentedly," he assured her at once, in a tone that was still very tremulous. "And—how to show my gratitude48 to both of you, for the chance, I—I can't—"
His voice broke. He could say no more. His silent self-control had been too sorely tried.
"Come on, then," said Reuben Yoxall uncomfortably. And Sallie clutched at the big, stolid49 Englishman's arm again and clung to it as they went forward, along the dark empty decks.
On the bridge, in the dim, vaporous light at one side of the white hood50 within which the carbon was burning, they caught sight of the chief engineer, a raggedly51 disreputable-looking individual, with features haggard, refined to the pitch of foolishness, rendered still more fatuous52 by the single eye-glass he always affected53 and which he had worn even while, when he had first joined the ship, he himself had worked in the stokehold as one of the black gang who feed the furnaces. Brasse was one of a number of human enigmas54 who had followed Captain Dove's flag and fortunes for uncounted years, and Sallie had long ago heard the common report that there was a hangman's rope waiting for him somewhere ashore.
He looked round as she approached, and his perspiring55 face expressed heartfelt relief.
"Just a moment," he begged, and once more applied56 an eye to the telescope trained parallel with the light.
"I thought so," he exclaimed, and turned a tap on a tube leading into the hood. In the instant darkness which ensued, the flare11 of another blue-light on the ridge above the ravine ashore produced a very weird57 and startling effect.
The engineer turned to Sallie.
"Gad58!" said he, hurriedly, "but I'm glad to see you safe back on board. I was afraid that—Did you get your man?"
"Yes, we brought him off. He's here, behind," Sallie answered briefly59, since there was so little time to explain anything. "But—what has gone wrong ashore, Mr. Brasse?"
"That second signal should mean that Captain Dove has been quite successful," said Brasse, a bitter note in his voice. "I expect he'll be back on board presently, too. So I'll get away below now and send some of my men on deck to help. I'll have to see your friend fixed60 up before the boats arrive. Have you explained to him—"
"Yes, he understands," she assured him, and, as the stranger followed the engineer silently from the bridge, she spoke to Yoxall again. He was leaning over the rail behind her, gazing over the side.
"What do you think has really happened, Rube?" she once more asked him. "It didn't look as if our men were winning."
"I wish I knew, lass," he repeated dully. "But—we'll know before very long, and—we can do nothing to help. So you'd better be off aft again, now, and seek some rest. I must see everything shipshape about the decks."
Sallie went slowly back to the poop, but she could not rest amid so many anxieties. It was not very long, however, before the regular plash of oars61 reached her ears where she was standing within the companion-hatch, under cover from the dew that the awning62 dripped. And in another minute Captain Dove's harsh voice hailed the ship.
"Show a light at the gangway, quick!" the old man shouted. "Muster63 all hands at the rails—and don't let a single son-of-a-gun on board you till I give the word."
These peremptory64 orders were promptly65 obeyed. Reuben Yoxall himself came running to the break of the poop with a deck-lamp and let the Jacob's-ladder down. But Captain Dove's boat was well ahead of the others, although for all company in it he had only Jasper Slyne and three white-robed Arabs, who, as they ran alongside, shipped their oars smartly to clutch at the ladder, up which Captain Dove scrambled66 swaying, with only one hand at his service. Slyne followed him, hot, dusty, dishevelled, still bleeding from a deep cut in one cheek, and then the Arabs, the Emir El Farish first, and the last with a turn of the boat's painter about his wrist in seaman-like fashion.
"Shift her forward now," Captain Dove commanded, "and up with the ladder again."
Which also was done, in a hurry, so that when the other boats arrived they had to bring-to under the bare wet side of the steamer wallowing in the swell. Sallie, herself unseen, saw that there were only three or four men in each, and a sudden, sick understanding of Captain Dove's successful expedient67 for ridding the ship of the rest of the mutineers flashed through her mind. But she would not allow herself to surmise68 what the Emir's visit might mean.
Captain Dove, safe on board, surveyed for a space, in silence and very much at his leisure, the men in the boats. But not one of them was able or willing to meet his malevolent69 glance. A more cowed, unhappy, hang-dog lot he had never seen, and he told them so, at some length.
"Get on to your feet, you, Hobson," he snapped, and the second mate stood up in his place, as if with a galvanic effort of will. Captain Dove regarded him fixedly70 for some moments.
"You're the worst that's left," he said then, in a steely voice, "and—I don't quite know what to do with you. I've asked Far—the Emir here if he'll have you as a gift, along with the others I left ashore, but he won't. And I don't want you on the Olive Branch; there's no room on board for a man like you—you might stir up another mutiny! Seems to me the very best thing you can do for yourself now is to jump right overboard before I have that boat swung and lay hands on you. For, if you set foot on my ship again, I'll have you hove head-first into one of the furnaces. D'ye hear?
"But take your choice—one way or the other, it's all the same to me.
"The rest of you mutinous71 swine can come aboard now. You've had your lesson, I think, eh? Then stand by to pick Mr. Hobson up if he follows you, and carry him down to the stokehold.
"Let the ladder over again, there."
The doomed72 wretch73, staring wide-eyed at Captain Dove in the lamplight, seemed to know that no appeal from that most monstrous74 penalty of his scarcely less monstrous crime would serve any purpose at all, and looked hopelessly about him while the others in the boat clambered, cringing75, up the ship's side. He shuddered76 convulsively as he caught sight of a stealthy black fin7 in the water, within a few feet of him. His slack, twisted lips were moving like those of a man with paralysis77.
"Put—put a bullet through me first," he begged piteously, and turning about, scrambled, groping, into the stern-sheets.
He stood there throughout an eternity of a few seconds, head bent78, shoulders heaving, hands hanging limp, and then, "For God's own sake—" he cried, in a dreadful, whimpering voice, that was suddenly stilled by a whip-like explosive crack as he pitched forward, headlong, out of the boat.
Sallie had darted79, unnoticed, down the steps from the poop to where Jasper Slyne was standing in the background, nonchalantly looking on.
"Save him, Jasper—for my sake!" she beseeched of him, who alone had any influence with the old man.
"I will—if you'll promise to marry me," he whispered in answer, as if inspired to snatch at even such a precarious80 chance of placing her under that obligation to him, and, without waiting for any reply, he fired at the black fin beyond the boat, ran to the rail and plunged over the ship's side. Captain Dove swung around, snarling81 viciously, and struck at him as he passed.
The splash he made frightened the swarming82 sharks away for a moment or two. He came up close beside Hobson, seized him by the scruff of the neck, and, after a desperate struggle, succeeded in clambering into the boat. A white streak83 seemed to leap from the water and snapped and missed the second mate's helpless heels by an inch or two as Slyne, with a final, frantic84 effort, jerked him inboard and fell backward over a thwart85.
Captain Dove stood glaring about him, speechless. Sallie had drawn86 back, unseen, in breathless suspense87. But the old man said nothing at all, not even when Slyne stepped, spent and dripping, over the rail, with Hobson close behind crying like a child.
"I've no more time to waste on such tomfoolery," said the Emir then, angrily, "and no great taste for it, either, Captain Dove. So give me the girl now, and I'll be gone."
"Come below, for a minute," returned Captain Dove, in a strangled voice, mastering his pent rage with a very visible effort. "Come below for a minute till I send for her.
"Mr. Yoxall, you'll let Mr. Brasse know that we'll be starting in half an hour. Tell those men off in two watches, and send one lot below. Leave Da Costa in charge of the deck—you'll be rated as second mate, now, Da Costa, d'ye hear?—and turn in, yourself, Mr. Yoxall, till the morning watch."
"Ay, ay, sir," Yoxall responded mechanically, and Captain Dove, as he led the way to his own quarters amidships—he had only been berthed88 aft, in the poop, while he had been ill and the crew conspiring89 against him—at length looked round at Slyne.
"Better get into some dry clothes, quick," he said, civilly enough, but in a tone which betrayed his real temper. "I want you to go aft and bring Sallie along."
When Slyne came aft again, a few minutes later, he was once more cool and clean and spruce in white drill, with a plaster over the cut on his face. He was also apparently90 well pleased with himself.
He found Sallie crouching within the companion-hatch, and she shrank still farther into its shelter as he approached.
"What's the matter?" he asked in surprise, his greedy eyes searching her white face in the misty91 darkness while she looked up at him in speechless dismay.
"Did you hear what Captain Dove said?" he asked, and laughed exultantly92. "You needn't worry about anything of that sort now, my dear. You've got some one to look after you now, and—it's all part of his plan, don't you understand? You must come along with me, but—there's nothing to be afraid of. You're perfectly93 safe now—with me."
She did not know what to believe, but, since there was no help for it, she followed him, without a word, to the doorway94 of the mid-ship saloon, within which the Emir and Captain Dove were amicably95 engaged over a black bottle.
"The real potheen!" El Farish was saying exultantly, a tumbler to his hook-nose. "It's long since I've had the chance of such." He looked round as Slyne stepped in.
"Here, have a sip96, Mr. Slyne," he said. "No, out of this glass of mine, if you please, just to show that it isn't hocussed. I've known Captain Brown—Captain Dove, I mean—long enough to be extra careful in his company."
He laughed as Slyne took the tumbler from him and, with a covert97 nod to Captain Dove, half emptied it at a draught98. And, as Slyne smacked99 his lips, "If it does you so much good, it can't do me any harm," said the Emir jovially100. "So—here's to the pair of bright eyes that—Ah! there she is. Come in, acushla, and let's have another look at you."
But Sallie had stopped on the threshold, and stayed there, silent, unable to move. The Emir, staring avidly101 at her, rose and lifted his glass.
"Here's happy days and no regrets—to the two of us!" he cried, and was draining it off when Captain Dove, at his back, felled him to the floor with a well-aimed blow of the full water-bottle, which was the most convenient weapon at hand.
"Are his two cut-throats out there safe?" the old man hissed102 from between set teeth, and Sallie, looking round, saw two limp figures huddled103 with hanging heads in the dark alleyway just beyond the door.
"Safe as houses," Slyne answered evenly, since she stood silent, aghast. "I made sure of them before I went aft. A single drink settled their hash. You must have made the dose in the other bottle pretty strong."
"It's just as well, after all, you see, that we didn't depend on fixing him the same way," said Captain Dove, recovering his self-command and indicating the prone Emir with a contemptuous foot. He seemed to have forgotten for the moment his grudge104 against Slyne. "I was afraid he'd smell a rat if we tried that old trick on him.
"And now—the sooner he's over the side the better. Don't stand there staring, Sallie! Go and call some of the men in."
The girl turned and went, dazedly105, drawing her skirts close as she passed the two huddled figures in the alleyway. Half a dozen of the watch on deck carried the Emir and his ineffectual retinue106 up the gangway, flung them, like so much rubbish, into the boat out of which the hapless Hobson had fallen, and at once cast it loose.
"They'll probably all wake up before they drift into the surf," said Captain Dove, looking on, with a laugh which made even Slyne glance askance at him. "And, if not—it isn't my fault.
"That fellow thought he could get the better of me, Slyne—and there's the result!
"Is that you, Mr. Da Costa? Where's Hobson?"
"He's locked himself into his room, sir, and barricaded107 the door," the new second mate answered swiftly, with a servile smile.
"Humph!" exclaimed Captain Dove. "All right. Weigh anchor at once. Head west for an hour and then due north. You'll be relieved before long. And just bear in mind that we've got to be very careful of coal now; we've no more on board than will take us to Genoa."
Da Costa saluted108 briskly, and had disappeared before Captain Dove turned and caught sight of Sallie again.
"Get away aft and turn in at once," he called irritably109 to her. "You'll have to take the bridge by and by, and for a good long spell, too—we've all had a hard time of it ashore while you've been idling on board."
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