10/35 Having exhausted them, he decided to seek additional information from Miss Bishop. For this he must wait until Pitt and Wolverstone should have withdrawn. He was hardly made to wait so long, for as Pitt rose from table to follow Wolverstone, who had already departed, Miss Bishop detained him with a question: "Mr.Pitt," she asked, "were you not one of those who escaped from Barbados with Captain Blood ?" "I was. I, too, was one of your uncle's slaves." "And you have been with Captain Blood ever since ?" "His shipmaster always, ma'am." She nodded. She was very calm and self-contained; but his lordship observed that she was unusually pale, though considering what she had that day undergone this afforded no matter for wonder. |