At his word, they put out a boat for him, and, while he waited, he came down the hill towards me and the dog that stood growling over you; and for sure, I thought it was the end.

But he said: 'Tell that fellow there that I'm not going to kill a defenceless man.

He might have killed me once but he didn't.

It's bound to be one of us some day or other, but despise me all he likes--I'm not such carrion as he thinks me; and if he only likes to keep out of my way, I'm willing to keep out of his.

Tell him, when he wakes up, that as long as he gives up going after what belongs to me--for it was my grandfather's--he is safe, but the minute he sets his foot or hand on what is mine, it's either his life or mine.' And then he turned away and was rowed to the _Susan B.,_ and they soon sailed away." "With the black flag at the peak, I suppose, Tom," said I."Well, that was a fine speech, quite a flight of oratory, and I'm sure I'm obliged to him for the life that's still worth having, in spite of this ungodly aching in my head.