Chapter 20 CHAPTER IX.

CAPTAIN AND MATE.

"So I hauled him off to the gallows' foot,

And blinded him in his bags;

'Twas a weary job to heave him up,

For a doomed man always lags;

But by ten of the clock he was off his legs

In the wind, and airing his rags!"

A couple of hours had passed since the occupant of the stone building had last spoken to his su