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I read on until daylight, and half-past eight found me, breakfast in bed finished, dressed and shaved, and on deck. We were still towing, but all sails were set to a light favouring breeze from the north. In the chart-room Captain West and the pilot were smoking cigars. At the wheel I noted what I decided at once was an efficient. He was not a large man; if anything he was undersized.
Jones had not finished. He went back to the chart-room and possibly even went on deck and took a look at the wheel. Then he went down again and killed the Hansen woman. He was exceedingly cunning. He flung the axe into the room, and was up and at the wheel again, all within a few seconds.
The ship was very steady in the quarterly sea, but certainly did not look as neat and trim as she had done when leaving the shores of England four months earlier. We had filled up with coal at Grytviken, and this extra fuel was stored on deck, where it impeded movement considerably. The carpenter had built a false deck, extending from the poop-deck to the chart-room.
I'm captain of my own ship, do you hear? captain of this ship, and I'll treat the crew as I damn please." "I guess you will, too; but don't swear at me, captain. I'm not one of your crew." Noyes descended to the chart-room deck. "I wish," he breathed, "that that pump-man had never seen this ship. They'll kill him before the day's over."
"Did you hear any sound outside, before you opened the door?" "A curious chopping sound. I spoke of it to her. It came from the chart-room." "When the girl fell back into the room, did you see any one beyond her?" "I saw something I couldn't say just what." "Was what you saw a figure?" "I I am not certain. It was light almost white." "Can you not describe it?"
I talked about the difficulty of sleeping in stormy weather, stated the restlessness and semi-insomnia that the violent motion of the ship caused in me, and raised the query of how bad weather affected the officers. "I noticed Captain West, in the chart-room, as I came up, sleeping like a baby," I concluded. We leaned in the lee of the chart-house and went no farther.
By the time afternoon came he was faint with hunger, and, having determined upon his course of action, he sent a fairly polite message to Captain Hardy and asked for an interview. The captain, who was resting from his labours in the chart-room, received him with the same air of cold severity which had so endeared Captain Nugent himself to his subordinates.
Hi! Bravo! I have been to the Pole! And those twelve dead that I had in the chart-room there must have heard me, and the men on the whaler must have heard me, and smiled their smile.
Thus from the chart-room, which had become a sort of lounge and card-room, through a small barred window it was possible to see the man at the wheel, who, in his turn, commanded a view of part of the chartroom, but not of the floor.
We embarked amid shouts, and did not check our lift till they had dwindled into whispers. Then De Forest flung himself on the chart-room divan and mopped his forehead. 'I don't mind men, he panted, 'but women are the devil! 'Still the devil, said Pirolo cheerfully. 'That one would have suicided. 'I know it. That was why I signalled for the flying loop to be clapped on her.
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