nevertheless, a person whom few would have chosen to cope with in
personal conflict. His coarse and savage features were still
flushed, and his eye still reeled under the influence of the
strong potation which had proved the immediate cause of his
seizure. But the sleep, though short, which Mac-Guffog had allowed
him, and still more a sense of the peril of his situation, had
restored to him the full use of his faculties. The worthy judge
and the no less estimable captive looked at each other steadily
for a long time without speaking. Glossin apparently recognised
his prisoner, but seemed at a loss how to proceed with his
investigation. At length he broke silence.--'Soh, Captain, this is
you? you have been a stranger on this coast for some years.'

'Stranger?' replied the other. 'Strange enough, I think; for hold
me der deyvil, if I been ever here before.'

'That won't pass, Mr. Captain.'

'That MUST pass, Mr. Justice, sapperment!'

'And who will you be pleased to call yourself, then, for the
present,' said Glossin, 'just until I shall bring some other folks
to refresh your memory concerning who you are, or at least who you
have been?'

'What bin I? donner and blitzen! I bin Jans Jansen, from Cuxhaven;
what sall Ich bin?'

Glossin took from a case which was in the apartment a pair of
small pocket pistols, which he loaded with ostentatious care. 'You