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Miller and Pitts voted for Frome and stirred renewed shouts of support and execration. "Takes one more change to elect Frome. All depends on Reilly now," Rawson whispered hoarsely to Jeff. "If he sticks we're safe for another twenty-four hours." But Reilly, knowing the decisive moment had come, voted for Frome and gave him the one more needed to elect. Pandemonium was loose at once.
They had a barrel of excellent salt beef from the stores of the ship; and Pitts made a splendid hash, which suited all hands better than almost anything else. While they were at dinner the steward brought in Lane's report of the measurements of the orang Louis had shot.
But his time had narrowed now to hours. He lunched with John Pitts, the head draughtsman, going back to pick up the boomerang he had left the week before. "Have you gone over my first bid?" he asked, carelessly. "I have lucky for you," said Pitts. "You made a mistake." "Indeed! How so?" "Why, it's thirty per cent. too low. It would be a crime to give you the business at those figures."
He refused to accept a penny, but all the others received about four dollars apiece. The money was all in silver, as it is all over India and the Archipelago for general use. The engineer and the seamen shared with the four hunters; for the former had done all the work and some of the shooting. The steamer was made fast at the shore, and all hands except Pitts landed for a walk through the town.
Pitts had remained silent throughout the dialogue. I could not help thinking that she suspected something, perhaps was concealing something. Yet each of them seemed equally anxious to have the marauder apprehended, whoever he might be. "My dear," he said to her at length, "will you call some one and have them taken to the kitchen?"
At length I agreed to spend a week or two at least, and took from him the bill of all the kinds of lumber needed, and left for Detroit. Judge F. C. Beaman furnished me with a letter of introduction, indorsed by Rev. Dr. George Duffield, of Detroit. I called, as he advised, on Samuel Pitts, who subscribed one hundred dollars in lumber.
"Breakfast is all ready in the cabin, sir," said Pitts. "That will do me more good than a nap," added Scott. "Don, keep a lively lookout on that high cape we came round, and see that it don't walk off while I'm eating my breakfast. Remember, all you fellows, that is Cape Arnauti; and if any of you are naughty, you will get fastened to that rock, as doubtless the chap it was named after was."
"Go ahead a little, Pitts," said the next one in turn; for the cook had taken the wheel while Clingman went to his morning meal. "I can't see his eye yet." "That will do; stop her. I can see his eye now, and there is no reflection on the water." As soon as the boat lost her headway, Louis fired. The saurian leaped nearly out of the water, and came down wrong side up.
Elliott, a G. A. R. veteran; that desk officer N. V. Pitts charged Sullivan with having forced him to turn over certain Chinese bond money and the Chief resigned his position while under these charges; that the Spokane Press bitterly attacked Sullivan and was sued as a consequence, the Scripps-McRae paper being represented by the law firm of Robertson, Miller and Rosenhaupt, of which Judge Frank C. Robertson was the head; that the Chronicle and Spokesman-Review joined in the attack upon the Chief; and that when Sullivan was dying from a shot in the back the following conversation occurred between himself and the dying man: "I said to him 'John, who do you suppose did this? He says, 'Judge F. C. Robertson and the Press are responsible for this. I said, 'John, you don't mean that, you can't mean it? He says, 'That is the way I feel."
It is said that the Foxes were assured by a relative of the Pitts that the young son of Chatham, then a child under a tutor's charge, showed parts which were sure to prove him a formidable rival to the precocious youth who was at once the delight and the despair of Lord Holland's life.
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