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It further transpired that, months previous, when the cloud of impending battle overhung the ship's company, he and one of his comrades had met for prayer in the 'chain-locker'; and thus began a series of most remarkable meetings which, without one night's interruption, lasted for some twenty months.
There’s a Black Ball clipper Comin’ down the river. And away the yard went to the mast-head till the bunt-robands jammed in the sheave. “Very well that,” said the old man. “Now get my dinghy off o’ the half-deck and let her drag alongside.” So they did that, too. “Very well that,” said the old man. “Now forrard with you, to the chain-locker, and rouse out every inch of chain you find there.”
As her own ring-stopper and shank-painter were weak, the patent windlass unlocked, and the end of the cable not secured in the chain-locker, the Ishmaelite walked calmly away with the anchor and a hundred fathoms of chain, which, at the next port, she sold as legitimate spoil of the sea.
"Leave life in the scoundrel so we can get the truth out of him." "Mr. Rogers, take the deck!" commanded Captain Hamilton sharply. "You bullies, get forward with you!" he added to the curious men of the watch. "Don't any of you lose sight of the fact that if it were a seaman instead of a passenger who attacked Mr. Ditty, he'd be in the chain-locker now. "Drew, you and Tyke come below with me.
The sail-hatch and fore-hatch were also fastened and padlocked, and the skylights covered with tarpaulin and screwed firmly down. A mouse could not have found its way below, except perhaps by the stove-pipe or the pipe leading down to the chain-locker. I was no believer in ghosts, but I had to hit on some theory there and then.
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.
It never occurred to me to ask questions and I might have known nobody but a prominent citizen ever gets into a show-case " "Glory, glory, hallelujah," Mr. Murphy crooned in a deep, chain-locker voice, and fled from the skipper's wrath. An hour later, in the privacy of his cabin, Matt Peasley took his pen in hand and wrote to Cappy Ricks: Mr. Alden P. Ricks, Dear Sir:
"What's the name of this floating coffin?" he demanded in a chain-locker voice. It was quite evident that even in the darkness, where her many defects were mercifully hidden, the Maggie did not suit the special envoy of the Mexican insurrectos. "American steamer Maggie," said the skipper frigidly. "Scraggs is my name, sir. And if you don't like my vessel " "Scraggsy!" roared the special envoy.
Smith turned to me, and his face was tragic in the light of the arc lamp swung hard by. "We shall never know," he whispered. "God forgive him he must be in bloody tatters now. Petrie, the poor fool was hiding in the chain-locker!" A little hand stole into mine. I turned quickly. Kâramanèh stood beside me.
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