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No newes more than last night; only Purser Tyler comes and tells me that he being at all the passages in this business at Chatham, he says there have been horrible miscarriages, such as we shall shortly hear of: that the want of boats hath undone us; and it is commonly said, and Sir J. Minnes under his hand tells us, that they were employed by the men of the Yard to carry away their goods; and I hear that Commissioner Pett will be found the first man that began to remove; he is much spoken against, and Bruncker is complained of and reproached for discharging the men of the great ships heretofore.
"Very well, then," he said, "what I should like to know is, what became of that message which made very pretty illuminations around your conductor, or whatever you call it, for at least a quarter of an hour this morning?" "The message may merely have been an intercepted one," the purser pointed out. "It may not have been fur us at all."
The doctor and purser had taken a greater lurch, and fallen over it, sousing their white waistcoats and well-arranged shirt frills in the dirty mixture. The rest of us contrived to keep our legs.
"Settle away this waister," again called Fid; "he interrupts rational conversation by his noise; and, as his gear is condemned by this here tailor, why, you may turn him over to the purser for a new outfit."
"How long have you been in the Orient?" Elsa asked. "Ten years," he answered gravely. "That is a long time." "Sometimes it was like eternity." "I have heard from the purser of your good luck." "Oh!" He stooped again and locked the door of Rajah's cage. "I dare say a good many people will hear of it." "It was splendid. I love to read stories like that, but I'd far rather hear them told first-hand."
Well, sir, you're owner, and as you seem to have acted as purser on board, you ought to know. But hadn't we better ask the Mate for his cargo-book first, so as to make sure?" He turned and looked, but Sheriff had gone, and was sliding down into the lifeboat which had come alongside.
And Tom felt that the war was not so bad, nor the squalid prison community either, since it had brought himself and Archibald Archer together again. But Archer's tale alone would have filled a book. He was just finishing an apple, so he said, and was about to shy the core at the second purser when the torpedo hit the ship. He was sorry he hadn't thrown the core a little quicker.
The doctor and purser, who were doubtlessly in the secret, wore each a look of the most perplexing gravity the captain one of triumphant mischief; the rest of us, one of the most unfeigned wonder. "If," spluttered out Captain Reud, see-sawing over the yet concealed thing. "If, Mr Paviour, you can pave your way down a river "
Sherman, Purser Goddard, an old Ohio friend of ours, was on the Stephens, and most kindly gave up his own room to her, and such lady friends as she included in her party. The Golden Age was afterward partially repaired at Quicara, pumped out, and steamed to Panama, when, after further repairs, she resumed her place in the line.
I have very little to say about our second lieutenant, or the master, or surgeon, or purser, who, as far as I knew, were respectable men, not above the average in intellect, and got on very well together in the gunroom; so that our ship might have been looked upon as a happy one, as things go, though I confess that we cannot expect to find a paradise on board a man-of-war.
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