CHAPTER XXXIII. DISCOVERY
Pog was too closely occupied with the disabled condition in which he found his galleys, to lend attention to the last words of Hadji. One of the spahis picked up the casket, and placed it in Pog’s chamber, to which the latter had descended, after leaving the galley in the command of the pilot.
This chamber was entirely covered with a coarse red woollen material. On this tapestry could be seen, here and there, a great number of black crosses traced by the hand with charcoal. Among them a small number of white crosses appeared, drawn with chalk.
A copper lamp threw a wan and sepulchral light in this room.
The only furniture of the room consisted in a bed, covered with a tiger-skin, two chairs, and an oak table, hardly square.
When the Moor had dressed the wounds of the captain, he retired.
Pog, left alone, remained seated, resting his head on his hand, and reflecting upon the events of the night His vengeance was only half satisfied.
His precipitate retreat humiliated his self-love, and aroused new resentments in his heart.
Nevertheless, he smiled as he thought of the evil he had wrought, and rose from his seat, saying: