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It is a weather-beaten ex-skipper or ex-pilot, with strands of coarse hair, like seaweed, falling about a face that has the expression of a half-open clam.
"No," answered the ex-skipper of the Flying Duck, pulling at his grizzled scrap of throat whisker and looking rather shamefaced. "You see, M'lissy Busteed dropped in a few minutes this mornin' while you fellers was out and " Both Captain Eri and Captain Jerry set up a hilarious shout. "Haw! haw!" roared the former, slapping his knee. "I wouldn't be so fascinatin' as you be for no money, Perez.
He did not suppress any of the details; in fact, he magnified them just a bit. "She's a free woman, so she says, Labe," he said, in conclusion. "And a free woman has a right to be free." "Is that so! That's what she says, hey? And you let her say it? Why, you you " He hesitated, hovering between candid expression and the respect due an ex-skipper of a three-master.
"Now there's General Rolleson in that book," she said. "Do you know who he makes me think of? Cap'n Lote, your grandpa, that's who." General Rolleson, as Albert remembered him, was an extremely dignified, cultured and precise old gentleman. Just what resemblance there might be between him and Captain Zelotes Snow, ex-skipper of the Olive S., he could not imagine.
It all rests with me whether this is a salvage job or just a plain towing job at the customary rates." Cappy looked at his ex-skipper keenly. "Matt," he charged, "you've got a scheme. You want something." "I do; I want to save you a lot of fuss and worry and expense. In return I want you to do something for me." "I'll do it, Matt. What is the program?"
It was finally arranged, before breakfast was over, that MacRummle was to go off alone to his usual and favourite burn; that Jackman and Quin, under the guidance of Junkie, should try the river for salmon and sea-trout; that Barret, with ex-Skipper McPherson, Shames McGregor, Robin Tips, Eddie Gordon, the laird's second son a boy of twelve and Ivor, the keeper whose recoveries were as rapid as his relapses were sudden should all go off in the boat to try the sea-fishing; and that Bob Mabberly, with Archie, should go photographing up one of the most picturesque of the glens, conducted by the laird himself.
The manner in which these varied phrases were jumbled together, intermingled with screeching exclamations, as well as the excited and grotesque gestures that accompanied them, might have been ludicrous, but for the painful impression it produced. There was no longer any doubt in the minds of those who witnessed his behaviour, that the ex-skipper of the Pandora was mad.
"We wish to go to Friedrichshafen," said he, apparently troubled by the discovery he had made. "So do I," replied Shuffles, quietly, without taking his eye from the sail. "This will not bring us there," added the ex-skipper. "Any port in a storm," said the gallant helmsman. "If I let the boat fall off enough to lay a course for Friedrichshafen, she will fill in the twinkling of an eye."
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