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"Thank God, sir, that your heart is so light already," said good Jack; "it makes me feel quite upraised myself, like.""I have reason to be cheerful, Sir John; I have left a heavy load behind me.I have been wilful, and proud, and a blasphemer, and swollen with cruelty and pride; and God has brought me low for it, and cut me off from my evil delight.No more Spaniard-hunting for me now, my masters.God will send no such fools as I upon His errands.""You do not repent of fighting the Spaniards.""Not I: but of hating even the worst of them.Listen to me, Will and Jack.If that man wronged me, I wronged him likewise.I have been a fiend when I thought myself the grandest of men, yea, a very avenging angel out of heaven.But God has shown me my sin, and we have made up our quarrel forever.""Made it up?"

"Made it up, thank God.But I am weary.Set me down awhile, and Iwill tell you how it befell."

Wondering, they set him down upon the heather, while the bees hummed round them in the sun; and Amyas felt for a hand of each, and clasped it in his own hand, and began:

"When you left me there upon the rock, lads, I looked away and out to sea, to get one last snuff of the merry sea-breeze, which will never sail me again.And as I looked, I tell you truth, I could see the water and the sky; as plain as ever I saw them, till Ithought my sight was come again.But soon I knew it was not so;for I saw more than man could see; right over the ocean, as I live, and away to the Spanish Main.And I saw Barbados, and Grenada, and all the isles that we ever sailed by; and La Guayra in Caracas, and the Silla, and the house beneath it where she lived.And I saw him walking with her on the barbecue, and he loved her then.I saw what I saw; and he loved her; and I say he loves her still.

"Then I saw the cliffs beneath me, and the Gull-rock, and the Shutter, and the Ledge; I saw them, William Cary, and the weeds beneath the merry blue sea.And I saw the grand old galleon, Will;she has righted with the sweeping of the tide.She lies in fifteen fathoms, at the edge of the rocks, upon the sand; and her men are all lying around her, asleep until the judgment-day."Cary and Jack looked at him, and then at each other.His eyes were clear, and bright, and full of meaning; and yet they knew that he was blind.His voice was shaping itself into a song.Was he inspired? Insane? What was it? And they listened with awe-struck faces, as the giant pointed down into the blue depths far below, and went on.

"And I saw him sitting in his cabin, like a valiant gentleman of Spain; and his officers were sitting round him, with their swords upon the table at the wine.And the prawns and the crayfish and the rockling, they swam in and out above their heads: but Don Guzman he never heeded, but sat still, and drank his wine.Then he took a locket from his bosom; and I heard him speak, Will, and he said: 'Here's the picture of my fair and true lady; drink to her, senors all.' Then he spoke to me, Will, and called me, right up through the oar-weed and the sea: 'We have had a fair quarrel, senor; it is time to be friends once more.My wife and your brother have forgiven me; so your honor takes no stain.' And Ianswered, 'We are friends, Don Guzman; God has judged our quarrel and not we.' Then he said, 'I sinned, and I am punished.' And Isaid, 'And, senor, so am I.' Then he held out his hand to me, Cary; and I stooped to take it, and awoke."He ceased: and they looked in his face again.It was exhausted, but clear and gentle, like the face of a new-born babe.Gradually his head dropped upon his breast again; he was either swooning or sleeping, and they had much ado to get him home.There he lay for eight-and-forty hours, in a quiet doze; then arose suddenly, called for food, ate heartily, and seemed, saving his eyesight, as whole and sound as ever.The surgeon bade them get him home to Northam as soon as possible, and he was willing enough to go.So the next day the Vengeance sailed, leaving behind a dozen men to seize and keep in the queen's name any goods which should be washed up from the wreck.

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