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"I thought I heard someone call out for help!" "I'm here below on the main-deck," shouted Mr Meldrum. "Call for assistance and come and help me at once. Poor Captain Dinks has been stabbed by one of the crew, and I fear he's dying!" "Good heavens!" exclaimed Frank in startled surprise, staggered for the moment; but he did not stop long to think or act. "Mr McCarthy!
It was just about the beginning of the second dog-watch at four bells six o'clock in the evening that the mist came; so, after a brief consultation with Mr Meldrum, Captain Dinks told the chief mate to call the hands aft.
"I dinks be ish close to vere de colt goomes owet", said Otto, his words uttered with such deliberation that it was manifest he was doing his best to heed the appeal of the young Kentuckian. "That is a decided improvement," Jack hastened to say, with an approving smile. You don't pronounce very well, but you built up that sentence better than usual."
"I dinks some dings dropped," said Otto, with a grin; "mebbe he don't try to fool us some more agin, don't it?" Jack made no comment, but, as was his rule, reloaded his gun with utmost haste, dreading all the time a rush from their enemies. It may be set down as singular that something of the kind did not take place, since the assailants must have known it could not fail to be effective.
There is trouble, she said to herself, as she heard Mrs. Dinks's reply. "Miss Wayne has been a recluse this winter," remarked Fanny, with infinite blandness. "Yes, she has had some kind of whim," replied Mrs. Dinks, shaking her shoulders as if to settle her dress. "We girls have all suspected, you know, of course, Mrs.
Alfred Dinks; at mention of which name they looked in her face in the most gentlemanly manner to see the red result, as if the remark had been a blister, but they saw only an unconscious abstraction in her own thoughts, mingled with an air of attention to what they were saying.
"We had four feet water in her when the carpenter sounded the well at six bells," said Captain Dinks; "and after rigging the pumps we reduced it considerably; but since then, she has made nearly two feet again all clear and clean without any bilge in it which shows she's taking it in fresh and fast."
"We shall have a repetition of yesterday again, I'm afraid," said Mr Meldrum presently with much concern, after a long interval of silence between the two. "I'm afraid so," was Captain Dinks' reply; "but I hope it won't come for another hour at least." He then hailed the steward down the companion- way, telling him to bring up his sextant from the cabin.
"My dear fellow," replied Fanny, with her mouth screwed into a semblance of smiling, "you'll drive me distracted. I must insist on common sense. It is too delicate a question for you to ask." Mr. Dinks grinned and look bewildered. Then he assumed a very serious expression. "It doesn't seem to me to be hard to ask my mother if she has seen my cousin."
Abel leaned upon the piano, with his eyes fixed upon the singer. He was fully conscious of the surprise he had betrayed to sister Fanny when she spoke suddenly of Mrs. Alfred Dinks. It was necessary to remove any suspicion that she might entertain in consequence. If Mr.
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