A young woman rose from a couch as he entered: 'I have been expecting you for the last half hour, Eugene.

You have worked longer than usual this evening; if the fish are spoiled you must not blame Zoe.' "The speaker was a tall and very handsome woman, and I now understood how it was that my captor spoke such excellent English.

There was a deep expression of melancholy on her face, but she smiled when speaking to the pirate, and her tone was one of affection.
"'I have brought home a countryman of yours, Ellen.

I forgot to allot him quarters until it was too late, so please give him over to the care of Zoe and ask her to give him some supper and a blanket; he will sleep in the veranda.' "The first look which the woman gave me as the captain spoke made me wish that instead of speaking to the captain I had lain down fasting under a tree, there was so much contempt and horror in it; then, as I suppose she saw I was but a boy, it changed, and it seemed to me that she pitied me from her heart; however, she clapped her hands and a negress entered.

She said something to her in Spanish, and the old woman beckoned me to follow her, and I was soon sitting in front of a better meal than I had tasted for many a month, perhaps the best meal I had tasted in my life.
"As she couldn't speak English there was no talking with the old woman.
She gave me a tumbler of stiff rum and water to drink with my supper, and after I had done she handed me a blanket, took me out into the veranda, pointed to the side where I should get the sea breeze, and left me.