Auld would now show himself in a nobler light than I had ever before seen him.

I was disappointed.

I had jumped from a sinking ship into the sea; I had fled from the tiger to something worse.

I told him all the circumstances, as well as I could; how I was endeavoring to please Covey; how hard I was at work in the present instance; how unwilling I sunk down under the heat, toil and pain; the brutal manner in which Covey had kicked me in the side; the gash cut in my head; my hesitation about troubling him (Capt.

Auld) with complaints; but, that now I felt it would not be best longer to conceal from him the outrages committed on me from time to time by Covey.