Demon
Dick seized one of the lights to go after them.
"Put down the glim! Satan singe your skin for you! Do you want to
bring a hue and cry upon us? Don't you know a light in the outer
cavern can be seen from the outside?" roared Black Donald.
Dick sulkily set down the candle and followed his comrades.
"What are you glummering about, confound you! You can see to eat and
drink well enough and find your way to your mouth, in the dark, you
brute!" thundered the captain. But as there was no answer to this
and the men had retreated and left their chief with his visitor
alone, Black Donald turned to Colonel Le Noir and said:
"Well, my patron, what great matter is it that has caused you to
leave the company of fair Clara Day for our grim society?"
"Ah, then, it appears you are not aware that Clara Day has fled from
us--has made a successful appeal to the Orphans' Court, and been
taken out of our hands?" angrily replied Colonel Le Noir.
"Whe--ew! My colonel, I think I could have managed that matter
better! I think if I had had that girl in my power as you had, she
should not have escaped me! "
"Bah! bah! bah! Stop boasting, since it was through your neglect--
yours! yours! that I lost this girl!"
"Mine!" exclaimed Black Donald, in astonishment.
"Aye, yours! for if you had done your duty, performed your
engagement, kept your word, and delivered me from this fatal
Capitola, I had not lost my ward, nor my son his wealthy bride!"
exclaimed Le Noir, angrily.
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