"Atufal, will you ask my pardon, now?"
The black was silent.
"Again, master," murmured the servant, with bitter upbraiding eyeing hiscountryman, "Again, master; he will bend to master yet."
"Answer," said Don Benito, still averting his glance, "say but the oneword, _pardon_, and your chains shall be off."
Upon this, the black, slowly raising both arms, let them lifelesslyfall, his links clanking, his head bowed; as much as to say, "no, I amcontent."
"Go," said Don Benito, with inkept and unknown emotion.
Deliberately as he had come, the black obeyed.
"Excuse me, Don Benito," said Captain Delano, "but this scene surprisesme; what means it, pray?"
"It means that that n***o alone, of all the band, has given me peculiarcause of offense. I have put him in chains; I—"
Here he paused; hi
