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It sounded to those on deck as if the great sea-serpent had put his head out of the sea close alongside and sent a violent hiss into the air. Joe Baldwin was attending to the air-tube, while Rooney held the life-line. He looked quickly down. "The air-pipe's burst!" he shouted, and both he and his comrade, without a moment's delay, began to haul up the diver as fast as they possibly could.
Surely, I thought he would remember now that he had served in two galleys at least in a three-decked Greek one under the black-haired "political man," and again in a Viking's open sea-serpent under the man "red as a red bear" who went to Markland. The devil prompted me to speak. "Why, 'of course, Charlie?" said I. "I don't know. Are you making fun of me?"
The great sails hung limp, without a single flap or quiver in them; the red ensign clung to the jigger-mast; Hamish, though he stood by the tiller, did not even put his hand on that bold and notable representation in wood of the sea-serpent.
I'll bet a dollar you'll see them both to-night at the Palace if Kaid doesn't throw them to the lions for their dinner before yours is served. Here one shark is swallowed by another bigger, till at last the only and original sea-serpent swallows 'em all." As David wound his way down the hills, Lacey waved a hand after him. "Well, give my love to the girls," he said. "Claridge Effendi!"
The listeners seemed rather disappointed at this meagre account and sudden conclusion of what had bidden fair to become a stirring tale of the sea; but Maikar re-aroused their expectations by stating his firm belief that it was all nonsense about there being only one sea-serpent.
"I suppose by the time we come back from the beach Freddie will have a regular menagerie," said Bert, with a laugh. "He had a kitten first, now he has a kitten and a duck, and next he'll have a kitten, a duck, and a " "Sea-serpent," put in Freddie, believing that he might get such a monster if he cared to possess one.
From the great sea-serpent to the nebular hypothesis, I was ready to write on anything or everything, and I can safely say that I seldom handled a subject without throwing new lights upon it. Poetry and romance, however, had always the greatest attractions for me. How I have wept over the pathos of my heroines, and laughed at the comicalities of my buffoons! Alas!
"You've heard, no doubt, of the great sea-serpent?" observed little Maikar, who had speedily recovered from the flattening to which Bladud had subjected him, and was busy enlivening a knot of young fellows in the bow of the ship. "Of course we have!" cried one; "father used to tell me about it when I was but a small boy.
Your evil heart will beat in the very centre of your foul body, and he that pierces it will kill the disease of greed forever from amongst his people. And when the sun arose above the North Arm the next morning the tribes-people saw a gigantic sea-serpent stretched across the surface of the waters.
"It must have been a sea-serpent," he replied, laughing. The deck officer regarded them curiously as they blinked in the glare of light, and asked whether anything was wrong. Armitage turned the matter off. "I guess it was a sea-serpent," he said. "It bit a hole in my ulster, for which I am not grateful." Then in a lower tone to Shirley: "That was certainly a strange proceeding.
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