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On the way back to dinner they spoke again of this difficulty of the boards. O'Flynn whistled "Rory O'More" with his pleasant air of detachment. "You and the others would take more interest in the subject," said the Boy a little hotly, "if we hadn't let you fellows use nearly all the boat-planks for your bunks, and now we haven't got any for our own." "Let us use 'em! Faith! we had a right to'm."
'I knew they'd object only wanted to make sure. The cabin was just as we had left it, our shore clothes lying in disorder on the bunks, a locker or two half open. 'Well, I wonder what they did down here, said Davies. For my part I went straight to the bookshelf. 'Does anything strike you about this? I asked, kneeling on the sofa. 'Logbook's shifted, said Davies.
I have trusted lieutenants who attend to my charities. I'm not a miser." "You are, with the greatest thing in the world human love." "Shall a man give it where it is not wanted? But enough of this talk. I have shown you Cunningham's pearls." "Perhaps." Night and wheeling stars. It was stuffy in the crew's quarters. Half naked, the men lolled about, some in their bunks, some on the floor.
Then details of the interior began to grow more distinct in the hut's one room. A tarp had been tacked over the dirt ceiling to keep scorpions and centipedes from dropping down on the bunks below. There was only a little furniture, and that of a crude sort. Some of it was smashed, as if in a scuffle. These things, however, were not noticed until later.
There is almost sure to be a dictaphone somewhere in this room. We don't want to give them any more information than we have to." Carnes and McCready nodded. Dr. Bird spoke aloud of inconsequential matters while they explored the cell. It was a room some twenty feet square, fitted with three bunks on one side, built into the wall like the berths on shipboard.
"No, I haven't even the title esquire, which, I understand, all American citizens possess." "Oh, you'll do. Now, I propose that Mr. Buel take his choice of the four bunks, and that we raffle for the rest." When Buel reached the deck out of this pandemonium, he looked around for another citizen of the United States, but she was not there.
The sloop was made for business, and the cabin harmonized exactly with the sloop painted pine, wooden bunks without mattresses, camp-blankets, duffel-bags slung up because all the floor place had been requisitioned for sleeping purposes. We were anchored a hundred feet off land from Pilot Cove, on the uninhabited north shore. The mosquitoes had adventured on the deep. We lay half asleep.
At night, after a supper of strong soup, we all turned in to our bunks in the tiny cabin, from the scuttle of which I could see a little patch of sky full of stars. A boy lives very much in the present. I do not think that I thought much of the Duke's service, nor of our venture for the crown. If I thought at all of our adventures, I thought of the handsome woman with the grey, fierce eyes.
All these interior arrangements were without the makeshifts so often found in houseboats. There were no curtains for partition walls nor crude bunks for beds. People aboard a houseboat must at best be living in close quarters.
We're short of grub, and there's only a few dozen shells left. Yes, I reckon we will go mighty slow about leaving the old creek and dipping into any of these tempting canals." So they chatted and exchanged views as they sat there until both grew sleepy, when the cozy bunks coaxed them into retiring.
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