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Walford stepped up to the cabin-table with an assumption of firmness which was completely belied by the ghastly pallor of his countenance and the convulsive twitching of his white lips. Grasping the table with both hands, he said in a voice which he in vain attempted to render steady
Cheerfulness and good-humour pervaded the ship from stem to stern. The courteous captain did the honours of the cabin-table with the air of a gentleman who was receiving friends in his own house. The handsome doctor promenaded the deck arm-in-arm with ladies in course of rapid recovery from the first gastric consequences of travelling by sea.
The night, however, becoming cloudy and dark, and the wind being contrary, we were once more obliged to bring up. "If the pirates come to look for us, they will find us gone," observed Captain Davis, as we sat at supper round the cabin-table. "But if they intended to attack us, depend upon it they were on the watch," observed A'Dale, "and know where we are as well as they did before."
"I have added two more persons to the company to be cared for at the cabin-table, and we shall get nothing to eat in the forward cabin if we don't have more help." "You shall have a waiter if I have to take him out of the dining-room of the St. Augustine Hotel," replied Mr. Cornwood, with as much assurance as though all the waiters in the city were under his charge.
"Look here," he said, bringing out a folded envelope and laying it on the cabin-table between them. "A dead man's wish. Get that to Miss Cahere. There is no message." Cartoner took up the envelope and put it in his pocket. "I shall not see her, but I will see that she gets it," he said. The dawn was in the sky before the Minnie swept out past the pier-head light of Neufahrwasser.
"Why, what is the matter with you, Mr Keene? you look quite frightened," said he. "Well, sir, I am," replied I; "and I think it my duty to tell you why I am so." I then informed him that Tommy Dott was under the cabin-table, and would, of course, hear the secret communications of the captain.
Mahon began to stamp with both feet and yelled at him, 'Good God! don't you see the deck's blown out of her? I found my voice, and stammered out as if conscious of some gross neglect of duty, 'I don't know where the cabin-table is. It was like an absurd dream. "Do you know what he wanted next? Well, he wanted to trim the yards.
For company over the cabin-table, he would have four or five whiskered sea-captains, who kept the steward drawing corks and filling glasses all the time. And once, the whole company were found under the table at four o'clock in the morning, and were put to bed and tucked in by the two mates.
"You were dead game," Gregory cut in. "You saved me from that fellow's knife and you know it." Dickie Lang made no reply but sat with her arms resting on the cabin-table, looking off into space. Again she saw herself huddled against the rocks, looking down into the sunlit water of the cove, waiting for the men to come to the surface.
"Yes. It may surprise you to hear it; but if you hadn't let the cottage to papa, I believe I should have suffered the indignity and misery of being sent to school." Allan's memory reverted to the half-crown that he had spun on the cabin-table of the yacht, at Castletown. "If she only knew that I had tossed up for it!" he thought, guiltily.
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