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Call the gang and make sail stays'l and balloon everything we'll go home, I guess." Clancy snapped the pipe out of his mouth and hove it over the rail. Then he went for the forec's'le gangway. In two jumps he was there. "Up, you loafers on deck and make sail. 'To the east'ard, says the skipper, and over the shoals we'll put her to-night." "Home!
George Moore, coming up out of the forec's'le to dump over some scraps, spied one. "The Mary Grace Adams," he sang out, "the shortest forem'st out of Gloucester. She must've been well inside when she started to get in at this time. Slow man, but she is slow, that one." "Yes, that's the old girl, and behind her is the Dreamer Charlie Green black mast-heads and two patches on her jumbo.
At four o'clock or so in the morning the cook stuck his head out of the slit in the forec's'le companionway and spoke his welcome little piece. "Can't have any reg'lar sit-down this morning, boys. Have to leave the china in the becket for a while yet, but all that wants can make a mug-up, and when we get inside if we do in anything like a decent hour we'll have breakfast."
Every man of the crew of the Johnnie Duncan said, "Here!" The cook even came out of the forec's'le and put in his "And me, too, skipper." "You're good men," said Clancy, "damn good men," and looked us up and down. We felt proud, he said it in such a way. "But you're taking your lives in your hands and some of you got wives and children mothers or something. Who hasn't anybody depending on him?
The passenger, who had small use for the captain, suggested that they go forward; and so they made for the bow of the ship and ascended the ladder to the forec's'le head, and here, after a decent interval, to allow Kieran to absorb the beauty of the tropic night, the passenger said, "How about that bull-fight in Peru?"
In bad weather, like it was that day, the little balcony of Crow's Nest was shut in by little hatches, arranged so that they could be run up and down, the same as hatches are slid over the companionway of a fisherman's cabin or forec's'le. Johnnie was a pretty active boy, and he was up the rope ladder and onto the roof in a few seconds.
"Tell the boys they might's well oil up and be ready." The watch did not have to repeat it we all heard it below, and fore and aft, in cabin and forec's'le, the gang made ready.
But I suppose that it did us no harm to be on the ground and ready. On the evening of the next day there was something doing. There was still some sea on, but not enough to hurt. Along about eight o'clock, I remember, I came off watch and dropped into the forec's'le to fix up my arm, which was still badly strained from hanging onto the seine-boat's painter when I was washed overboard.
"Harmony most ex-quis-ite," said somebody, and that's what must have been that hung over the forec's'le, and it seemed to be merely in keeping with the heavenly order of things that the atmosphere showed pale blue wherever the rays of the lamp could get a chance to strike through.
He couldn't get down by way of the hatches they were battened down but he dropped into the forec's'le and, before anybody knew what he was up to, he had slipped through the forehold and into the mainhold and there he saw where they had hurriedly put back the flooring, and he also saw extra barrels of sand tiered low for further stiffening of the Withrow.
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