If I can tow you back
I shall be delighted, and as for the damage
"The damage is trifling, thanks," he returned icily; "it is the
delay that I find annoying."
"You have my very humblest apologies," I said meekly. "If I can
be of any service - " Mr. Selwyn stopped me with a wave of his
hand.
"Thank you, I think I can manage," he said; "but I should rather
like to know how it happened. You are unused to rowing, I presume?"
"Sir," I answered, "it was chiefly owing to the hot-headedness of
Scarlet Sam, the Scourge of the South Seas,"
"I beg your pardon?" said Mr. Selwyn with raised brows.
"Sir," I went on, "at this moment you probably believe yourself to
be Mr. Se1wvn of Selwyn Park. Allow me to dispel that illusion; you
are, on the contrary, Don Pedro Vasquez da Silva, commanding the
Esmeralda galleasse, bound out of Santa Crux. In us you behold
Scarlet Sam and Timothy Bone, of the good ship Black Death, with the
'skull and cross-bones' fluttering at our peak. If you don't see
it, that is not our fault."
Mr. Selwyn stared at me in wide-eyed astonishment, then shrugging
his shoulders, turned his back upon me and paddled away as best he
might.
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