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Good! "I am an enemy of Hooja," I replied. "He has stolen my mate and I have come here to take her away from him and punish Hooja." "How could you do that alone?" "I do not know," I answered, "but I should have tried had you not captured me. What do you intend to do with me?" "You shall work for us." "You will not kill me?" I asked.
On this occasion a considerable number of men who had received slight injuries from accidents came on board, so that Fred had to devote much of his time to the medical part of his work, while Fink, his mate, superintended the distribution of what may be styled worsted-works and literature.
"I hold you responsible for the death of those men," said Hendry vindictively. "Very well, sir," answered the mate, "but this is not the time nor place to talk about it." "No," broke in Atkins fiercely; "no more is it the time or place to charge you, Captain Hendry, and you, Mr. Chard, with the murder of the two native seamen whose bodies we saw lying on the main hatch."
Long were doubly sorrowful at their second parting from him, for his heart had found its mate and Lily was accompanying him. He had gained a lovely bride, and more than that, an enthusiastic helpmate. Together they took up the work where John had left it.
"Bo'sun's mate on a certain destroyer somewhere off the coast of France, fighting in the U. S. Navee." "And the father?" I inquired, being one of those old-fashioned persons who like all the loose ends of a story to be tied up. "Was anything ever heard of him?"
Tarzan and Jane skirted the shore of Jad-bal-lul and crossed the river at the head of the lake. They moved in leisurely fashion with an eye to comfort and safety, for the ape-man, now that he had found his mate, was determined to court no chance that might again separate them, or delay or prevent their escape from Pal-ul-don.
One, who appeared the least exhausted, answered that they had been ten days at sea, and for the three last they had been without food or water, with the exception of half a biscuit apiece, and that they were the survivors of six who had embarked on the raft. "I am the second mate of the Juno, armed whaler," continued the speaker.
"Nice quiet time for an invalid." Evans made a gesture of despair. "How would it be," said the mate, after a long pause, and speaking very slowly; "how would it be if I took this one off your hands." "You couldn't do it, Bill," said the skipper decidedly. "Not while she knew I was above ground." "Well, I can try," returned the mate shortly. "I've took rather a fancy to the girl. Is it a bargain?"
He defied us to do our worst yesterday." "Defied us! did he?" cried the mate with a bitter laugh. "Poor, contemptible thing!" "And yet he seems not so contemptible but that you are afraid to attack him." "Who said I was afraid?" growled the mate sulkily. "I'm as ready as any man in the ship. But, captain, what is it that you intend to do?"
The second mate had followed me anxiously. I looked on till I felt I could command my voice. "She will weather," I said then in a quiet tone. "Are you going to try that, sir?" he stammered out incredulously. I took no notice of him and raised my tone just enough to be heard by the helmsman. "Keep her good full." "Good full, sir." The wind fanned my cheek, the sails slept, the world was silent.
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