and then a roar like a
bull's. But at the third knock it died down to a sort of rumbling,
and presently came a shout, "Who's there?"

"A clergyman and justice of the peace," answers the Parson.

"I'll have your skin for this!"

"But you'll excuse me--"

"I'll have your skin for this, and your blood in a bottle! I'm a
British officer and a gentleman, and I'll have you stuffed and put in
a glass case, as sure as my name's Bligh!"

"Bligh?" says the Parson, opening the door. "Any relation to the
Blighs of St. Tudy? Oh, no it can't be!" he stammered, taken all
aback to see the man stark naked on the threshold. "Why--why, you're
the gentleman that called this morning!" he went on, the light
breaking in upon him: "excuse me, I recognise you by--by the slight
scar on your face."

Well, Sir, there was nothing for Bligh to do--the whole parish
staring at him--but to slip back into the shed and put on the clothes
my grandfather handed in at the door: and while he was dressing the
whole truth came out. I won't say that he took the Parson's
explanations in a nice spirit: for he vowed to have the law on
everyone concerned. But that night he walked back to Falmouth and
took the London coach. As for Helford River, 'twasn't charted that
year nor for a score of years after. And now you know how this creek
came by its name; and I'll say again, as I began, that a bad temper
is an affliction, whoever owns it.

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