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"Now's your time, bo'sun!" cried Captain Applegarth. "Heave that line, sharp!" "Aye, aye, sir," roared out Masters in his gruff tones. "Stand by, below there!"
"Beg pardon, sir, but we can't carry on much longer with all that sail forrad. The fore-topmast is a- complainin' like anythink, I can tell ye, sir. Chirvell, the carpenter, and me's examinin' it and we thinks it's got sprung at the cap, sir." "If that's the case, my man," said Captain Applegarth to this, "we'd better take in sail at once. It's a pity, too, with such a fine wind.
Mr Stokes, however, was in no jocular mood. "Cap'en Applegarth," said he solemnly, "did you really mean to ring us on full speed ahead?" "I did," replied the skipper promptly. "What of that?" "What of that?" repeated the old engineer, dumbfounded by this return shot. "Why, sir, the engines can't stand it. That is all, if you must have it!" "Can't stand what?"
As Captain Applegarth uttered these words, solemnly enough, the fireman's ravings, when in the agonies of death, came back to me, and I thought that, if confident in his materialism when in health and strength, his creed had not altogether eased his mind at the last, when I saw him raise his eyes, for a few minutes, to heaven in prayer.
"Well, young Haldane!" exclaimed old Mr Stokes, whom I found with Captain Applegarth and the colonel when I reached the wheel-house. "What do those smart chaps of mine down below say, hey, my boy?"
"Of course it was," he added, while our new acquaintance looked at us, unable, naturally, to understand the mystical allusion; but Captain Applegarth soon turned his roving thoughts into another direction by asking him a second question. "How long did you keep in sight of your vessel after leaving her, colonel, do you think?"
Of course I know him better now." "There are not many steadier and shrewder men than Sherwood," remarked Will. "I feel sure of that," replied the other. And he added, as if to fortify himself in the opinion: "Yes, I feel sure of it." "In spite of all his energy, never rash." "No, no; I can see that. Yet," added Applegarth, again as if for self-confirmation, "he has energy of an uncommon kind."
Mark my words, Cap'en Applegarth, that there craft be either The Flying Dutchman, as I've often heard tell on, but never seen meself, or a ghost-ship; and Lord help us we be all doomed men!" "Nonsense, man!" cried Captain Applegarth. "Don't make such an ass of yourself! Flying Dutchman indeed!
"That's pretty lively," exclaimed Captain Applegarth, clutching hold of the rail to preserve his balance as he turned to the quartermaster at the wheel. "Steady there, my man! Keep her full and by!" "Aye, aye, sir," answered Atkins. "But she do yaw so, when she buries her bows. She's got too much sail on her, sir." "I know that," said the skipper.
"Yes, but look here." Warburton stood before him, hands on hips, regarding him gravely, and speaking with decision. "I don't quite understand you. You're not like yourself. Is there anything you're keeping from me?" "Nothing nothing whatever, I assure you, Warburton." But Will was only half satisfied. "You have no doubts of Applegarth?" "Doubts!" cried the other.
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