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"And tried friends, my dear," said Admiral Bell, "excepting me; and whenever you like to try me, afloat or ashore, d n me, shew me Old Nick himself, and I won't shrink yard arm and yard arm grapnel to grapnel pitch pots and grenades!" "This is my uncle, Flora," said Charles. "I thank you, sir," said Flora, faintly. "All right!" whispered the admiral to Charles; "what a figure-head, to be sure!
"The Nelson!" sighed Willis, "in the latitude of Hawai; no, that is impossible." "She is bearing down upon us," said Fritz. "Just let me see a moment whether I can make out her figure-head," said Willis. "Aye, aye!" "Can you make it out?" "No; but, from the sheer of the hull, I think the ship is British built." "Thank God!" exclaimed both the young men.
And those who had come to the Hotel Gemosac to confirm their adoption of a figure-head went away with the startling knowledge in their hearts that they had never in the course of an artificial life met a man less suited to play that undignified part.
She was of between two and three hundred tons burden, and was painted a light blue, with a red streak. Beneath her white bowsprit the gaudy image of a woman served as a figure-head. The two masts had been snapped short off about three feet from the deck, and the bulwarks were gone, only the covering board and stanchions remaining, so that each wave washed over and through her.
"What a very matter-of-fact statement in favour of kings!" exclaimed Max Graub; "Here is a child who does not care a button for a king as king; but she thinks he would be useful as a figure-head to dance to, for idiotic Fashion, grouping itself idiotically around the figure- head, would want to see her dance also and then oh simple conclusion! she would be able to support her father!
The Northern Lights was off to the east, and between her and Procyon was a fifth ship; turning the arm-mounted binoculars around, he could just make out, on her bow, the figure-head bust of a man in an ancient top-hat and a fringe of chin-beard. She was the Oom Paul Kruger, captured by the Procyon after a chase across the mountains north-east of Keegark the day before.
A model of a vessel from which the figure-head in the front yard had been taken was over the mantel, flanked by an old print or two of Nantucket in the past. There were Windsor chairs and a winged chair; some pot-bellied silver twinkled in a corner cupboard. The windows throughout were low and square and small-paned and white-curtained. The day was cool, and there was a fire on the hearth.
Over the door of one might be seen the figure-head of some unfortunate vessel. An arbour, not rustic but nautical, was composed of the carved work of a Dutch galliot; indeed, the owners of few had failed to secure some portion of the numerous hapless vessels which from time to time had been driven on their treacherous coast.
The smuggler uttered the last sentence in deep exasperation, for the time appointed for signalising his comrades at sea had arrived, and yet that stolid coast-guard-man sat there as if he had become fastened to the shingle. "I've a good mind to run out an' hit ye a crack over yer figure-head," he continued, grasping his pistol nervously and taking a step forward.
Apparently he was to be nothing but a figure-head in the case! And he turned to the phone and called up Mr. Hasbrook, and asked him what he expected him to do with these papers. There was the whole case here; and was he simply to take them as they stood? No one could have replied more considerately than did Mr. Hasbrook.
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