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"Why you want to know dat name?" he asked at length. "Well," said Bill, "you bin talkin' abaht it a lot, and so, d'yer see, I reckoned I'd find out. An' yesterday I 'ad to go into the cabin to get at the lazareet 'atch, an' the chart was spread out on the table." "De chart?" The Dago was slow to understand. "Ah, yais. Mapa chart. An' you look at-a 'im, yais?"
The Anna Maria was bound for Mozambique, and he had offered himself, with new hopes for his third attempt. "D'ye reckon you'll do it this passage?" the seamen used to ask him over their pipes. He would shrug and spread his hands. "Ah, who can tell? But some time, yais." "An' what did ye say the name o' that place o' yours was?"
"De lubbin honey lamb!" crooned Dinah. "Did he come with you, Dinah?" went on Uncle Daniel, trying to find out exactly who had seen Freddie last. "Yais, sah, he done comed wif me fo' a little while in de crowd, an' den he slid away he just seem t' melt away laik," explained the cook. "Which way did he go?" Uncle Daniel wanted to know. "Which way? I dunno," Dinah answered.
For a good half hour he devoted himself to us, making us eat, stoking the little stove, and giving us blankets and rough coats to wear to get us warm again. After that he turned to Bigley and laid his arms upon his shoulders, drooping his hands behind, and throwing back his head as he looked him in the face. "You like me make my sheep to you hous, yais?" "Take us home, sir.
The Cockney eyed him unpleasantly. "Say, Dago," he said presently, "wot was the name o' that there place you said you come from?" "Eh?" The Dago roused from his smiling reverie. "De name? Ah, yais." He pronounced the name slowly, making its syllables render their music. "Yus," said Bill, "I thought that was it." He went on working, steadily, nonchalantly. The Dago stared at him, perplexed.
You'll have whisky, or gin?" The Frenchman pronounced for whisky, and took it neat. Mills stared. "If I took off a dose like that," he observed, "I should be as drunk as an owl. You know how to shift it!" "Eh?" "Gimme patience," prayed the trader. "You bleat like a yowe. I said you can take it, the drink. Savvy? Wena poosa meningi sterrik. Have some more?" "Oh yais," smiled the guest.
"Yais, yais; dey shall be alongside by t'ree o'clock at de lates'!" answered the Portuguese. "And as soon as you have receive dem you had better veigh and leave de creek. Give dat point" indicating Boolambemba Point "a bert' of a mile and you veel be all right." "Yes, thanks, I will remember," returned the first lieutenant. "And where are we to pick you up?"
"Ia ora na oe!" I reply. "All goes well?" "By cripe' yais; dam' goo'!" she answers, and goes humming on her way to her shanty in the yard. She is the maid of my chamber, gentle, willing, but never to be found for service.
"Wha' fo' yo' stan' 'round heah, listen' t' what yo' betters sayin'." "I guess I'd better pay him," said Jerry, and settled with the Celestial, who drove slowly off. "Now come right in!" exclaimed Ponto. "I were I were jest thinkin' out dar on dat bench yais, sah, I were thinkin', an' fust thing I knowed I was 'sleep. It's a turrible sleepy country, dat's what 'tis, fer a fact.
"Dis?" he repeated. "Dese clo'se, I keep dem for my town, Dan. To come back wis yais! For not be like a mendigo a beggar. Now, no need to keep dem no more; and dis place oh, Dan, it is so like, so like! I dream it all yais de church, de praca all of it!" "Steady!" growled Dan. "Don't get dreamin' it again." "No," said the Dago; "I never dream no more. Never no more!"
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