10/20 Did you take this one up from choice? I go hungry in Santo Domingo--God forgive me for ever going there!--and, to keep from starving I took this job." "With Sanchez, or before the bark was captured ?" "Before, Senor. The captain's name was Schmitt. Not since have I been ashore, but they spare me because I was Spanish." I would have asked the fellow more, perhaps even have tested him in his loyalty to his new masters; but I felt this was neither place nor time. |