? ? ? ? When the grave had been filled with earth the little party turned back toward the cabin, and Esmeralda, still weeping copiously for the two she had never heard of before today, and who had been dead twenty years, chanced to glance toward the harbor. Instantly her tears ceased.
? ? ? ? "Look at them low down white trash out there!" she shrilled, pointing toward the Arrow. "They-all's a desecrating us, right here on this here perverted island."
? ? ? ? And, sure enough, the Arrow was being worked toward the open sea, slowly, through the harbor's entrance.
? ? ? ? "They promised to leave us firearms and ammunition," said Clayton. "The merciless beasts!"
? ? ? ? "It is the work of that fellow they call Snipes, I am sure," said Jane. "King was a scoundrel, but he had a little sense of humanity. If they had not killed him I know that he would have seen that we were properly provided for before they left us to our fate."
? ? ? ? "I regret that they did not visit us before sailing," said Professor Porter.
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