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There was a pattering of feet upon the deck, and the next moment Captain Banes's hand was upon Brace's shoulder. "Your eyes are a little out of focus, squire," he said quietly. "They magnify too much, and see more than there is." "Why what surely " stammered Brace. "It's all right, my lad," said the captain quietly. "Better than seeing nothing when there's real danger coming on board."
"Morning is the time out here in the tropics," he said to himself, as he stepped out into the cool darkness, apparently the first person up that morning, for all was very still. "I'll go down to the waterside and have a good look at Captain Banes's vessel."
Feeling that it would be a welcome change in the conversation, Brace walked with him to where they could get a good view of Captain Banes's brig, whose taut rigging and shapely sides began to show plainly now in the early morning, a flash of sunlight seeming to have fallen just beneath the bows on the head of the white painted figurehead beneath the bowsprit; but it proved to be only the gilded Phrygian cap which the carvers had formed, while as they walked up, admiring the trimness of the well-kept vessel the while, there was another gleam of sunlight, but only on the gilt name "Jason."
That barrel warn't big enough for a chap my size, and I feel quite curly. There's a crick in my neck, one of my legs is bent and t'other's quite screwed." "Oh, you'll be better soon," said the first mate. "Yes, I'm coming right again," replied the man. "Wait till you've had a trot or two up and down Captain Banes's deck. You'll let him, won't you, skipper?" "Urrrr!" growled the captain.
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