Honey Harlot (24 page)
Authors: Christianna Brand
The lecturer is talking some nonsense about insurance, about a meeting, a conversation at any rate, having taken place before ever they sailed from New York, between Captain Briggs of the Mary Celeste and Morehouse of the Dei Gratia; about a plot between them, the abandonment of the brig with her cargo in furtherance of a claim for insurance—some fraudulent trick that I don’t understand. I say nothing, waiting for the novices to wheel me away to the seclusion of my cell; watching my own gnarled hands play with the gold cross at the end of my rosary. Let him jabber on, poor fool! What does he know about it? My husband—lend himself to knavery of that sort! Captain Benjamin Briggs, I’ll have you know, my dear sir—for all the sins of the flesh was in the depths of his soul a God-fearing man.
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