We left Honer and his companion Coxon crossing the forest toward the shore — in "Honer's" pocket a silly, worthless draft, and in Coxon's pocket a precious black pearl, snatched from the wife of blind Richard. Uneasiness began to steal over Coxon's soul on this long journey, and Honer invited him into a house on
the shore, that they might rest..
— 2 —
They went in... Coxon brought out a bottle of liquor and took great gulps, to calm his nerves..
"Honer" drank with a calm that set "Coxon's" nerves trembling.
Coxon had begun to feel the dangers surrounding him... The affair began to
reveal itself to him as a contrived plot, especially when he noticed that "Honer" had drawn his pistol from his hip pocket to place it in the front opening of his shirt, and had gone out to look for the boat.
...to himself: "From a glass of — liquor, this happens to me?!"
The poor man did not know that this was
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