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Between you and me just a whisper in your ear I don't think Harrigan is half as strong for it as he talks. I don't trust him, somehow." "No?" "Look here," said the bos'n cautiously. "We hear there was once some trouble between you and Harrigan?" "Well?" "Would you waste much tune if somethin' was to happen to him say in the middle of the night, silent and unexpected?" "I would not!
That time, apparently, was not in the near future. The girl stayed on at the Whittaker place and grew to be more and more a part of it. At the end of the second week Captain Cy began calling her "Bos'n." "A bos'n's a mighty handy man aboard ship," he explained, "and you're so handy here that it fits in first rate. And, besides, it sounds so natural. My dad called me 'Bos'n' when I was little."
I be old Sam Griscom that sailed bos'n with you on a marchant voyage out of Liverpool. An' now you are a fine gentleman of fortune, with moidores and pieces of eight to fling at the gals, an' here I be, a sheer hulk on the beach."
The Chief said benignly: "H'm.... I'm gonna be in charge of the engine room, an' Haney'll be bos'n let Joe try to take off without us! an' that don't leave you a rating, Mike, unless you're willin' to be just plain crew!" Slowly Sally turned her face away from Joe and looked up. Then they all saw it. A telescope, maybe, would have shown it as the thing they'd worked on and fought for.
All were agreeable to this proposition and decided to go aft the first thing in the morning watch. Jim stuck out for going back. "If you were to go with us, Mr. Rolling, we might persuade Trunnell," said he. "It's no use, he never would " Before we could continue the discussion further the bells struck out loudly, and the bos'n and I went on deck for our watch.
"Just managed to get his feet on the gangplank came within an ace of falling into the sea." "That's all." The bos'n retreated and McTee turned back to Kate Malone. "He had asked me to sign him up for this trip," he explained. "If I'd set him ashore, he'd probably have been in the police court the next morning. So I let him stay.
But when I heard those women at the meetin' house goin' on about how pretty 'Licia Atkins was got up and how mean and shabby Bos'n looked, it made me bile. And, by the big dipper, I WILL show 'em somethin' afore I get through, too! Only, dressin' little girls is some off my usual course. Bailey, does Ketury make her own duds?" "Why, no!
Everything teacher said sounded so right, and what you said didn't. And I like to have you always right." "Do, hey? Hum!" Captain Cy didn't speak again for some few minutes, but he held the little girl very tight in his arms. At length he drew a long breath. "By the big dipper, Bos'n!" he exclaimed. "You're a wonder, you are.
The rest was plain enough, so Captain Cy thought. However, war was already declared, and the reasons for it mattered little. The first skirmish might occur at any moment. The situation was desperate. The captain squared his shoulders, thrust forward his chin, and walked briskly up the path to the door of the dining room. It was nearly one o'clock, but Bos'n had not yet gone.
"Mutiny, bos'n," said McTee coldly. But the eye of Hovey was fully as cold; he knew his man. "Well?" he queried. "Talk ahead. I've given you my word to keep quiet." "Suppose this old man had a lot of money. Would it be any crime any great crime to slip a little of that long green into our pockets?"
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