“Good-night, then.”
“It marks a whole stage in the progress of making pistols, which the Chesapeake Indians call Nortay-u-Hah.”
“Five Louis, ready money. Why, it is a handful of gold.”
“‘Nortay-u-Hah,’ that signifies ‘short gun.’ A good many people don’t know that.”
“Will you take five Louis, and just a bit of silver?”
“I said six, master.”
The man who kept his back to the candle, and who had not yet spoken, was spending his time during the dialogue in turning and testing the mechanism of the pistol. He approached the armourer’s ear and whispered—
“Excellent.”
“I will give the six Louis.”