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Once they're tied up Teddy can't 'elp 'imself." "Why on the quiet?" demanded Mr. Kybird, sharply. The boarding-master uttered an impatient exclamation. "Becos if Mr. Swann got to 'ear of it he'd guess I'd been blabbing, for one thing," he said, sharply, "and for another, 'e left it to 'im partly to make up for 'is disappointment he'd been disappointed 'imself in 'is younger days, so 'e told me."
His tread was elastic, his figure as upright as a boy's, and he swung a light cane in his hand as he walked. As Mr. Kybird gazed he bestowed a brisk nod upon the bewildered Mr. Smith, and crossed the road with the evident intention of speaking to him. "How do, Smith?" he said, in a kindly voice. The boarding-master leaned against the shop-window and regarded him dumbly.
"You shall 'ave it," said the boarding-master, with sudden blandness, "and 'Melia shall 'ave 'er five 'undred." "'Ow?" inquired the other, staring. "It's as easy as easy," said Mr. Smith, who had been greatly galled by his friend's manner. "I'll leave it in my will. That's the cheapest way o' giving money I know of.
The former gentleman was in almost a sentimental mood, and the boarding-master, satisfied that his pupil was in a particularly appropriate frame of mind for the object of his visit, renewed his instructions about binding Mr. Silk to secrecy, and departed on business of his own. Mr. Kybird walked slowly towards Fullalove Alley with his head sunk in meditation. He was anxious to find Mr.
"I've been spending a hour or two at Mr. Swann's," said Mr. Smith. "And 'ow is 'e?" inquired his hostess, with an appearance of amiable interest. The boarding-master shook his head. "'E's slipping 'is cable," he said, slowly. "'E's been making 'is will, and I was one o' the witnesses." Something in Mr. Smith's manner as he uttered this simple statement made his listeners anxious to hear more. Mr.
With the roustabout crew that had been shipped in New York from a West Street boarding-master it took some time to get the anchor broken out the men going at their work sulkily. At last, however, it was "up and down" as the sailors say, and Luther Barr himself signaled on the engine-room telegraph "Full speed, ahead."
His pleasant face had a hint of uncertainty; it was conciliatory and amiable; he was an able seaman of the kind which is manufactured by a boarding-master short of men out of a runaway apprentice. The others, glancing after him while they continued their work, saw him suddenly clear by the galley door, then dim again as he stepped beyond it. He passed out of sight towards the lee poop ladder.
This act, although most unlikely in appearance, is often performed; and though the boarding-master, of course, expects to recoup himself out of the man's advance note, it is none the less as merciful as the action of the "home" authorities is merciless.
No matter what the condition of things is in the shipping world; though the man may have fought with energy to get his discharge accepted among the crowd at the "chain-locker;" though he be footsore and weary with "looking for a ship," when his money is done, out into the street he must go, if haply he may find a speculative boarding-master to receive him.
"I've been spending a hour or two at Mr. Swann's," said Mr. Smith. "And 'ow is 'e?" inquired his hostess, with an appearance of amiable interest. The boarding-master shook his head. "'E's slipping 'is cable," he said, slowly. "'E's been making 'is will, and I was one o' the witnesses." Something in Mr. Smith's manner as he uttered this simple statement made his listeners anxious to hear more. Mr.
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