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Chillingworth, stepping before Charles, so that Jack should not see him, "why, Jack Pringle, what brings you here?" "A slight squall, sir, to the nor'west. Brought you something to eat." Jack produced a bottle. "To drink, you mean?" "Well, it's all one; only in this here shape, you see, it goes down better, I'm thinking, which does make a little difference somehow." "How is the admiral?"
He lay there thinking fiercely, only troubled by the idea of what he would do as soon as he had made his plunge penniless into that dense black cloud the future. But there was no lifting of the black curtain. He could see his way to the office to bid Pringle good-bye. After that all was hidden.
Pringle came down hard on it, and forced the ball past the bowler for a single. Then he and Norris settled down to a lengthy stand. 'I do like seeing Pringle bat, said Gosling. 'He always gives you the idea that he's doing you a personal favour by knocking your bowling about. Oh, well hit! Pringle had cut a full-pitch from the slow bowler to the ropes.
"Ha, ha, ha!" laughed Jack; "never did such a thing in my life ha, ha, ha! what's the matter now?" "I'll tell you what's the matter. Jack Pringle, you are becoming mutinous, and I won't have it; if you don't hold your jaw and draw in your slacks, I'll have another second." "Another second! what's in the wind, now?" said Jack. "Is this the dream?"
"You got the big drop on me, Pringle, and I wouldn't raise a hand to keep Chris from getting off anyhow not now. But I used to be a ranger and the rangers were sworn never to give up their guns." "How about it, Pringle?" asked Foy, who had already relieved the sheriff and his satellites of their guns. "He'll do exactly as he says both ways." "I wasn't done talking yet," said Nueces irritably.
Some parting shots and some hearty cheers were sent after them; and then numbers of the brave crew sank down exhausted on the decks, slippery with the gore of their shipmates. Even Paul Pringle began to tremble like a child, and could scarcely drag his legs after him as he went below to assure himself of the safety of little Billy.
'I shall tell Reece, because he deserves it, and I rather think I shall tell Gosling and Pringle. Nobody else, though. What's the good of it? Everybody'll forget the whole thing by next season. 'How about Norris? asked Marriott. 'Now there you have touched the spot. I can't possibly tell Norris myself. My natural pride is too enormous.
The Pringle man's soul had apparently missed the normal distribution of fig-leaves; he was an illiterate, open-eyed, hard-voiced, freckled, rational-minded creature, with large expository hands, who had come by a side way into the church because he was an indefatigable worker, and he insisted upon telling the bishop with an irrepressible candour and completeness just exactly what was the matter with his intimate life.
Now, for the first time, Paul Pringle and others bethought them of looking for the Thunderer. So full of salt spray was the air that they could scarcely make her out, near as she was to them; then on a sudden they saw her dark hull surrounded by the seething foam, but her stout masts were not visible. She, as they had been, was on her beam-ends.
It relieved Lorimer to hear Pringle talk about 'us'. It meant that he was not to be left to bear the assault alone. Which, considering that the whole trouble was, strictly speaking, Pringle's fault, was only just. 'But how am I to explain? I can't reel off a long yarn all about how you did it all, and so on. It would be too low. 'I know, said Pringle, 'I've got it.
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