"Quickly away with the cargo! No one must know that Olagus Esbjörnsson fell from a shot out of the Custom-house yacht. I—I—fell upon them."
They were his last words.
Tuve's head fell, sobbing, on the man whom he had so completely honored as his superior.
Tuve was now the first in Mörkö, and as though a stronger spirit had come over him, he began to feel his duty. He rose, and gave orders to turn toward the sea, but the crew stood motionless with terror.
THOMAS CARLYLE
(1795-1881)
BY LESLIE STEPHEN
