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Charles Rex

CHAPTER V
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DISCIPLINE The storm spent itself before they reached Gibraltar, and Toby emerged smiling from his captivity below.

He still wore the brown and gold hotel-livery as there was nothing else on board to fit him, but from Gibraltar a small packet of notes was dispatched to Antonio by Saltash in settlement of the loan.
"Now I've bought you--body and soul," he said to Toby, whose shining look showed naught but satisfaction at the announcement.
The vivid colours of his injured eye had faded to a uniform dull yellow, and he no longer wore a bandage.

When they put to sea again he was no longer an invalid.

He followed Saltash wherever he went, attended scrupulously to his comfort, and when not needed was content to sit curled up like a dog close to him, dumb in his devotion but always ready to serve him.
Saltash treated him with a careless generosity that veiled a good deal of consideration.

He never questioned him with regard to his past, taking him for granted in a fashion that set Toby completely at ease.


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