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"Sorry," he replied, "that is a matter concerning which I fear that you will have to restrain your curiosity." "How did you get in here?" "By means of a duplicate key which I obtained from the purser. I hid in your bunk there and drew the curtains. Quite a comfortable mattress, yours. You'll have to change your sleeping quarters, though." "What is going to happen to me?" the young man enquired.
Jack Purser is a man of fortune, if the number of his wives, twenty-nine, be a criterion. I saw a native doctor making his "greegree," or charm, for rain. There were two large mortars, with leaves, bark, and roots, in each, and a long vine extending from one to the other. Into these mortars he poured water, until it ran over. Dined on shore, at Mrs. Sawyer's.
He is the right-hand man and confidential deputy and clerk of the Purser, who intrusts to him all his accounts with the crew, while, in most cases, he himself, snug and comfortable in his state-room, glances over a file of newspapers instead of overhauling his ledgers. Of all the non-combatants of a man-of-war, the Purser, perhaps, stands foremost in importance.
Mease, the purser, appeared on the ladder. "Lunt has not come back with the pilot-boat, Carvel," said he. "I have volunteered for a battery, and am assigned to this. You are to report to the commodore." I thanked him, and climbed quickly to the quarterdeck.
And even the purser would probably be released by the Interplanetary Court of Ferrok-Shahn when it heard our evidence. There was only Miko. We could arrest him for the murder of Anita. But if we did that now, the others would be put on their guard. It was Carter's idea to let Miko remain at liberty for a time and see if we could identify and incriminate his fellows.
About half-past eight that morning, he was awakened from a sound sleep by a tap on his door, and instead of the steward with his hot water, no less a person entered than the captain, followed by the purser. Jocelyn sat up in his bunk and rubbed his eyes. "Good morning, gentlemen," he said. "Anything wrong?" The captain undid the catch of the door and closed it behind him.
The great gray stack of paddy-bags seemed, in the eyes of the girl, fairly to melt away. "By Jove!" exclaimed the purser. "There's Parrot & Co.!" He laughed and pointed toward one of the torches. "Parrot & Co.? I do not understand." "That big blond chap behind the fourth torch. Yes, there. Sometime I'll tell you about him. Picturesque duffer."
When it is known, by the purser and steward, that a lady is under the special care of the captain, it ensures her a larger share of civility, and special attentions, than she might otherwise obtain." As soon as they went on board, indeed, the captain came up to them. "Good morning, Mrs. Holland," he said. "You have done quite right to come on board early.
Take the portmanteau out." The steward hesitated, looking from one to the other. "The ticket is for 159, sir," he said at last. "Then there is some mistake. The room is mine. Don't have me ask you again to remove the portmanteau." "Perhaps you would like to see the purser, sir." "I have nothing to do with the purser. Do as I tell you."
None could mistake them, and the few clauses which he curtly added to the discussion rather damped the discussion, and there was a pause. "What should you do, Mr. Purser," said Edward Henry, "if she began to play any of her tricks here?" "If she began to play any of her tricks in this ship," answered the purser, putting his hands on his stout knees, "we should know what to do?"
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