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The boy crept to the forehatch and peered down. One tiny yellow star flickered in the pitch blackness beneath. "Mr. Lanyon!" His voice was frightened of itself. "Is that you?" The Litany ceased. Some one cleared his throat. "That's me, sir," came a voice from the pit. "I'm back where I belong in her bow'ls."
Until the monster's stem took him on the quarter and the smack hurled over hustled into the sea by the impetus of the steamer Jack never left go of his wheel; he had a few seconds, and, with his nimble spring, he rushed to the mizen rigging, nicked the strings of one lifebuoy; lifted another from forward of the companion, and then made his rush for the forehatch. "All out. No time for the boats!"
Wales secured a moderately satisfactory observation of an eclipse of the sun, and was able to fix their position as 20 degrees 17 minutes 39 seconds South, 164 degrees 41 minutes 21 seconds East. On the same day the ship's butcher, Monk, "a man much esteemed in the ship," fell down the forehatch, and died the following day from the injury received.
In the first access of his blind terror he tried to reach the deck above through the forehatch, but was stopped by the sound of a heavy tread overhead.
"Dis am a debbil-ship; Ah tells yoh dey can't be no peace in dis ship nohow." I gestured towards the forehatch. A dozen men sat upon it, quietly smoking and gossiping. "The squally weather is past," I said. "Those lads don't want trouble. A few hours ago they were all for fight but now they've settled down. And don't you try to start trouble!
Then rising, it glided forward with the same staccato movement until opposite the slight elevation of the forehatch. Suddenly it darted to the hatch, unfastened and lifted it with a swift, familiar dexterity, and disappeared in the opening. But as the moon shone upon its vanishing face, it revealed the whitening eyes and teeth of the Lascar seaman.
Also, as it turned out, he wanted to pump me regarding Newman. I was Newman's one close friend, and Boston must have thought I knew something of the big man's intentions. Anyway, after supper that evening, as I was sitting on the forehatch, whittling away at a model of the Golden Bough I was making, Boston came and sat down beside me.
Rowe stepped briskly on board, the fur cap nodded to the forehatch, where Fred and I were sitting on coiled ropes, and the fancier said very knowingly, "The better the breed the gamier the beast." He patted the bull-dog as he said it, and the bull-dog kissed his dirty hand. "Hup to hanythink," were Mr. Rowe's parting words, as he went aft, and the driver called to his horse.
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