e the people of the country
believe that he was in league with the Evil One, if he was not rather
the Evil One himself. They gave him the name of the _Diabo_.

"No one ever deserved it less," exclaimed Fleming. "The devil, to my
mind, is cunning and cowardly, and a fool into the bargain. Resist him,
and he'll run away. Act a straightforward, honest part, and he can
never get round you. Lord Cochrane, you see, mates, was as true and
honest as steel, as brave as his sword, and so wise, that he never
undertook to do anything when he didn't see the way clear before him
that would lead to success." Tom agreed also in heartily praising their
old chief, though they were not very complimentary to the Spaniards or
to the people of Chili, whom he had come to assist.

"I say, Tom, do you mind when we were going away from Valparaiso to
attack Callao, and you and I were serving aboard the _O'Higgins_, how
that lieutenant brought the admiral's little son on board?" said
Fleming, for the purpose, I suspect, of drawing his friend out.

"Ay, that I do," answered Tom Carver. "You see the flag-lieutenant had
gone on shore for some of the admiral's traps, when he fell in with the
little chap, who wasn't more than five or six years old. `I want to go
with father,' says he. `I must go with father aboard the big ship
there. I will go.' At first the lieutenant said he couldn't take him;
but the little fellow cried out so, that he couldn't find it in his
heart to refuse him; so he lifted him up on his shoulders and carried
him away to the boat. The child shouted and crowed with pleasure,
waving his little hat above his head, just like a sucking hero as he
was. When the people saw it, they seemed as if they would grow mad with
delight, and followed him in crowds, cheering and crying out, `_Viva la
Patria_' at the top of their voices. I was one of the boat's crew, and
certainly there was something in it somehow which took our fancy
mightily. Off we pulled aboard the flag-ship, before Lady Cochrane
found out what had become of the child, and I daresay she was in a great
taking. Well, we only got aboard just as the ship was under weigh, and
he couldn't be sent on shore again. There was nothing to be done but to
take him with us. We weren't sorry to have him, for, you see, next to a
monkey, there's nothing does a ship's company more good than having a
little child to look after. The small chap had nothing but the clothes
he was