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"They've probably gone to the island to find gold," said Trask, who realized that Locke had not grasped the situation fully. "It looks as if they won't attempt to come back." "Oh, that's the game, is it?" "Looks like it," said Jarrow. "Very well," said Locke, grimly. "I'll look to you, Captain Jarrow, to carry out the terms of our agreement." "What ye drivin' at?" demanded Jarrow.
"There's our island," he said. Trask managed to pick it up, but the others could not see it, and went back to breakfast. Trask soon followed, observing that Shope was in the fore crosstrees studying the distant speck with a glass. "We ought to be up to it by night," said Jarrow. "Night!" said Trask, surprised. "Perhaps before dark," said Jarrow, a trifle disconcerted at Trask's manner.
Locke?" asked Wilkins, with a genial air, as he came in from the office, consumed with curiosity. "Oh, yes," said Jarrow. "He's a nice man." "Raw-ther," said Wilkins. "I hear he's rich," said Jarrow. Wilkins smiled knowingly. "Millions," he said. Peth looked at Jarrow quickly, and whistled faintly through his teeth. "I guess you know me," said Jarrow.
"What's this?" demanded Jarrow, turning back to stare at the bill. Vanderzee leaned over the bar, and Peth craned his neck forward, maintaining his eternal grin. They had never seen Dinshaw with so much wealth before. "Money!" piped Dinshaw, triumphantly. "Has he gone plumb loco?" asked Jarrow, looking at Vanderzee. "Dot money ain'd crassy," said the black man.
"I don't want no back slack from the likes o' you," Jarrow said, and Doc subsided. Trask went around to where Locke and Marjorie were sitting, and with his back against the side of the cabin trunk, sat and chatted. At lunch time Captain Jarrow joined them at table, and made special efforts to renew the good-fellowship of the schooner, chiefly by a careful avoidance of any mention of Peth.
In spite of the captain's evident desire to abandon the crew to their fate, Trask still had a lurking suspicion that Jarrow was more in sympathy with Peth's demands for extra money than his heated language against the mate implied. And the young man was determined that he would not relax his vigilance once Jarrow was on deck again.
The Fish Quay at North Shields is a sight worth seeing; and, in the herring season, it is increasingly frequented by Continental buyers. The fortunes of South Shields and Jarrow, though these towns are not in Northumberland, are yet so bound up with the story of the Tyne that no one would ever think of that river without them.
Locke," called Jarrow, and then stepped back to escape the smoke from the tug's funnel, calling to Peth to see that the ladder was put over. After a deal of fussing and bawling on the part of the tug's crew, she was nestled alongside the schooner, and Jarrow was at the rail to assist them over the side.
It's about time Prayerful Jones was shut of lettin' loose his bums and lunatics on us folks with property." "No harm," said Vanderzee, soothingly. "I say it is harm! I'm hailed whurever I go about this business of the old un's island, Van! Just 'cause I've got a schooner, it's Jarrow, Jarrow, Jarrow! I'd look fine and smart cruisin' round for a P. D. island, wouldn't I? Now tell me that?"
"So do I, but I hate to hear everybody aboard barking at everybody else. First it's Mr. Peth, and now the captain's on his high horse. They're not being paid to perform like a box of wild-cats, and I'll inform Captain Jarrow to that effect before long if things don't change." "He wants to steal my island!" whispered Dinshaw.
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