[A Knight of the White Cross by G.A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookA Knight of the White Cross CHAPTER IX WITH THE GALLEY SLAVES 26/34
I would gladly have fought, but the sailors said it would only throw away their lives.
There was but little on board, and they allowed the vessel to go free with those of the sailors who were too old to be made useful for hard work." No further questions were asked.
The men seemed to have no interest save in their own misery, and Gervaise soon left them, and, sitting down in a shady corner, presently dropped off to sleep. In the evening all came in from their various work.
The officer man who had brought Gervaise in went up to the overseer of the galley slaves and informed him that he had told off the new slave--pointing to Gervaise--to his gang. "He was brought in by the galley that arrived last night," he said; "he was the only slave sent up here.
I hear that he had been set aside to be appointed a servitor, but there are no vacancies, so they sent him here till one should occur; and I was ordered to make him useful in other ways in the meantime." "I am two or three hands short," the overseer said.
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