43/50 Truly he had friends, and not least among them was this thin, shrewd Bostonian. He drew a chair close to the colonel and spun the wonderful tale of his kidnapping, the sea fight, the wreck, the island and his rescue by the _Hawk_. Colonel Strong listened intently and seldom interrupted, but when Robert had finished he said: "'Tis clear, lad, that your belief in the good spirits was well placed. Their good spirits are our angels. 'Tis all the same in the essence, only the names are different. |