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It came to him, with horrible distinctness, how a boy in a cherry-coloured jersey he despised fancy blazers now with all a fisher-man's contempt how an ignorant, rowdy boy had once said it would be "great" if a steamer ran down a fishing-boat. That boy had a stateroom with a hot and cold bath, and spent ten minutes each morning picking over a gilt-edged bill of fare.
Before any one had a chance to scold or to reproach her, she had dashed across the wharf, run aboard the yacht and had shut herself up in her stateroom. A few minutes later, dressed in a fresh white serge frock, she emerged to say good-bye. The houseboat girls had made up their minds that not one tear would any one of them shed when the moment of parting came.
With sundry gapes Christy had taken in the situation, and then he concluded to avail himself of the commander's permission to retire to his stateroom, where he was soon in a sound slumber. Just before, Captain Breaker had retired to his cabin, where he had a chart of the Gulf of Mexico spread out on his table.
He recalled stories of explosions and of the boiling eddies which sometimes accompany sinking hulls. Turning, he scrambled up to the cabin-deck and ran swiftly toward his stateroom. O'Neil felt for the little bracket-lamp on the wall of his stateroom and lit it.
"While she was sick in her stateroom, he'd been looking into a good many faces besides hers, the " "I don't seem to remember anything definite about it," Billy Fairfax said. It was strange to hear that beating pulse of horror in Billy's mild tones and to see that look of terror frozen on his mild face.
"Some of them may be coming back, you know." "Yes, let us put off at once. This mist that is coming up will help us to get away." Leaving the stateroom they were in, they went out on deck and began to untie the houseboat. While they were doing so they heard the sounds of two horses approaching. "Somebody is coming," said Flapp, and an instant later Dora and Nellie came into view.
The heavy trunks had been sent to the ship by express the afternoon before, and they had only themselves and their stateroom baggage to transport to Hoboken; they came down to a carriage sent from a neighboring livery-stable, and exchanged good-mornings with a driver they knew by name.
"My son!" screamed the Amazonian queen. They embraced. At the same moment a loud flop was heard on the quarter-deck. It was the forgotten mermaid, who, emerging from her stateroom, and ascending the companion-way at that moment, had fainted at the spectacle. The Pirate Prodigy rushed to her side with a bottle of smelling-salts. She recovered slowly.
"What did you shut me off for?" asked Ned, when he and his chum were alone in their stateroom again. "Because I didn't want you to make any breaks before him," answered Tom. "Then you suspect " "I suspect many things, Ned, but I'm not going to show my hand until I'm ready. I'm going to watch and listen." "And I'll be with you." But no further accidents occurred.
Upon my finding him and explaining the situation in language couched in all possible delicacy, he made suitable apologies and I presently found myself established in a stateroom which had no other occupant. I shall dismiss the early part of the journey with a brief line.
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