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Falk received the cook's interruption with an ill temper that made the darkey's eyes roll with joy. "Whar you git dat bootiful head-piece?" A flush darkened Falk's pale face under the bandage, and with what dignity he could muster, he ignored our snickers. "What do you say?" he cried to Roger. "Evidently you haven't found the money yet." To us Roger said in an undertone, "Hold your fire."
Relieved at escaping from an embarrassing situation, I jumped up so promptly that my knife fell with a clatter, and hastened on deck, calling "Ay, ay," to the man who had summoned me. I knew very well why I was wanted aft. Mr. Falk, who was on duty on the quarter-deck, completely ignored me as I passed him and went down the companionway. "At least," I thought, "he can't come below now."
Afterwards, when she looked back to this, she remembered that she had looked, for some unknown reason, especially at Canon Ronder, as she stood there saying good-bye. She decided that she did not like him. Then she went away, and Mrs. Combermere was glad that she had gone. Of all the dull women.... Seatown Mist and Cathedral Dust Falk Brandon knew quite well that his mother was watching him.
Dey ain' gwine believe no gammon dat yeh Kipping tells 'em leastwise, no one ain't onless it's Mistah Falk. Now you go 'long with you and don't you come neah me foh a week without you act like Ah ain't got no use foh you. And boy," he whispered, "you jest look out and keep clear of dat Kipping.
He rushes here for a meal every chance he can get, for just please tell me what satisfaction is that for a well-educated young fellow to feed all alone in his cabin like a wild beast? That's what Falk expects his engineers to put up with for fifteen dollars extra. And the rows on board every time a little smell of cooking gets about the deck! You wouldn't believe!
He came, late in the afternoon, into the study and found his father, balanced on the top of a small ladder, putting straight "Christ's Entry into Jerusalem," a rather faded copy of Benjamin Haydon's picture that had irritated Falk since his earliest youth by a kind of false theatricality that inhabited it. Falk paused at the door, caught up by a sudden admiration of his father.
"We may as well," said Falk. "Of course for you, sir, it's different. Strangers have to keep certain hours. This way, sir." They followed the pompous old man across the nave, up the side aisle, past "tombs and monuments and gilded knights," until they came to the King Harry Chapel.
To Falk he replied clearly, "You black-hearted villain, if you show your face in a Christian port you'll go to the gallows for abetting the cold-blooded murder of an able officer and an honorable gentleman, Captain Joseph Whidden. Quid that over a while and stow your tales of piracy and mutiny. Back water, you! Keep off!" Here was no subtle insinuation.
He could not trust him, but, to stop his row, he had lent him enough money to pay all his debts before he left. I was greatly surprised to hear this. Then Falk could not be such a miser after all. So much the better for the girl. For a time he sat silent; then he picked up a card, and while looking at it he said: "You need not think of anything bad. It was an accident. I've been unfortunate once."
"Yes, judgment !" Falk roared; and he turned on Roger with all the anger of his mean nature choking his voice. "I'll I'll beat you, you young upstart, you! I'll beat you in that man's place," he cried, with a string of oaths. "No," said Roger very coolly, "I think you won't." "By heaven, I will!" The two men faced each other like two cocks in the pit at the instant before the battle.
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