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But I'll tell you what you can do for me issue some tobacco and other stuff they want to my men." An hour later the three men had shaken hands with Joan down on the beach. She gave the signal, and the boat shoved off, six men at the oars, the seventh man for'ard, and Adamu Adam at the steering-sweep.
Charles was for beaching for the night, but Liverpool held on, steering down Tagish by the sound of the surf on the shoals and by the occasional shore-fires that advertised wrecked or timid argonauts. At four in the morning, he aroused Charles. Old Tarwater, shiveringly awake, heard Liverpool order Crayton aft beside him at the steering-sweep, and also heard the one-sided conversation.
In the late afternoon of the second day Grief ordered a whaleboat into the water. He took his place in the bow, a live cigarette in his mouth and a short-fused stick of dynamite in his hand, for he was bent on shooting a mess of fish. Along the thwarts half a dozen Winchesters were placed. Albright, who took the steering-sweep, had a Mauser within reach of hand.
At Windy Arm, Stine arbitrarily dispossessed Kit of the steering-sweep and within the hour wrecked the boat on a wave-beaten lee shore. Two days were lost here in making repairs, and the morning of the fresh start, as they came down to embark, on stern and bow, in large letters, was charcoaled "The Chechako." Kit grinned at the appropriateness of the invidious word.
He saw six sweeps at work, and in the stern, clearly outlined against the overhanging wall of white, a man who stood erect, gigantic, swaying with his weight on the steering-sweep. This he saw, and an eighth man who crouched in the bow and gazed shoreward. But what startled Sheldon was the sight of a woman in the stern-sheets, between the stroke-oar and the steersman.
Sprague struggled with the steering-sweep for a quarter of an hour, and then looked appealingly at Kit, who relieved him. "My arms are fairly broken with the strain of it," Sprague muttered apologetically. "You never ate bear-meat, did you?" Kit asked sympathetically. "What the devil do you mean?" "Oh, nothing; I was just wondering."
With eyes of terror Sam Kirby scanned the boiling expanse through which the barge was drifting, but nowhere could he catch sight of Danny Royal. He turned to shout to his pilot, only to discover that he also was missing and that the steering-sweep was smashed. "God! HE'S gone!" cried the old man.
"Sure," Shorty affirmed. "It was just what I was stopping to think about. I knew there was some reason I ought to do it." Again they turned to go, but Sprague and Stine made no movement. "Good luck, Smoke," Sprague called to him. "I'll er " He hesitated. "I'll just stay here and watch you." "We need three men in the boat, two at the oars and one at the steering-sweep," Kit said quietly.
At Windy Arm, Stine arbitrarily dispossessed Kit of the steering-sweep and within the hour wrecked the boat on a wave-beaten lee shore. Two days were lost here in making repairs, and the morning of the fresh start, as they came down to embark, on stern and bow, in large letters, was charcoaled 'The Chechaquo. Kit grinned at the appropriateness of the invidious word.
"Certainly not," the Ancient Mariner responded swinging his weight on the steering-sweep and heading the boat back. Twice the whale gently rolled them in the course of its leisurely circling, ere they bent to their oars again and pulled away. Of them the whale seemed to take no notice.
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