A moment more and he would have been crushed beneath the ponderous board, when a slight but strong arm arrested its descent. All at once he recollected the fact that McClintock's copra plantation was down that way, somewhere in the South Seas; had an island of his own. "But what, may I ask, arouses the thought?" The doctor was in high good humour. "He has passed this way," cried Jonathan, exultingly; "I have him safe enough. Exerting all his energies, and using the bar as a lever, he forced off the iron band, which was full seven feet high, seven inches wide, and two thick, and which brought with it in its fall the box of the lock and the socket of the bolt, leaving no further hinderance. I’ll take over here. Suppose he stopped all her allowance, made it imperative that she should either stay ineffectually resentful at home or earn a living for herself at once. His hand went to his pocket and extracted a neat silver-mounted pistol. " "Now for it!—life or death!" exclaimed Jack, assuming the gait of a female, and stepping towards the door. She recoiled. She wished she had not stood up. Suddenly she felt her wrist grasped by a strong hand. "If you have a child there, it certainly is not," answered Jonathan, a little surprised; "for I left your brat in the charge of Blueskin, who is still among the crowd in the street, unless, as is not unlikely, he's gone to see your other friend disciplined at the pump. The Master of the Mint, with whom the Jacobite captain had often had transactions before, vouched for their being men of honour and loyalty; and Kneebone was so well satisfied with his representations, that he at once closed the matter by administering to the applicants the oath of allegiance and fidelity to King James the Third, and several other oaths besides, all of which those gentlemen took with as little hesitation as the sum of money, afterwards tendered, to make the compact binding.
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