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"None whatever now, except the interest on the ten thousand; and that well, I'm sorry to say it hasn't been paid very regularly. But in future it must be it shall be. Between two and three thousand are owing to me for arrears." "It's a queer story." "I know it is," admitted Godfrey. "But I hope you don't doubt my word?" "No, I don't What's to be done about Applegarth?"
Will shrugged his shoulders, and tried to forget all about the affair. He did not see Sherwood, but had a note from him written in high spirits. Applegarth would be in town two days hence, and all three were to dine at his hotel.
"Mil gracias, amigos," he said, with a polite inclination of his head, in apology like for shaking himself free from us. "Estoy major!" Captain Applegarth stepped up to him. "I am sorry I can't speak Spanish, sir, though I understand you to say you're better. We're Englishmen all on board this ship, sir, and I'm glad we've been able to pick you up."
"Well, we must talk about that. To tell you the truth, Will," Sherwood continued, crossing his legs and clasping his hands behind his head, "I don't see my way to find the whole capital, and yet I don't want to bring in a stranger. Applegarth could sell to a company any moment, but that isn't his idea; he wants to keep the concern in as few hands as possible.
Whereupon both sniggered at the skipper's apt mimicry of Master Conky's pet phrase, which Captain Applegarth pronounced in the little beggar's exact tone of voice, so like indeed being the imitation that I nearly choked myself while swallowing the balance of my cocoa, as I hastily drained my cup and rose to follow the skipper up the companion-ladder to the deck.
"Cap'en Applegarth told me to bring one down for lifting the poor chap who's so hurt, and so I took my own, which had blankets already in it, thinking it would be warmer for him, sir." "Begorrah, the skipper's got his head screwed on straight, and you the same, too, Haldane," said he approvingly, with a sagacious nod as he bent over the pile of sacks in the corner.
"I believe so. Or early next week." "That's right. I want to get done. Queer how these details fidget me. Nerves! I ought to have had a holiday this summer. You were wiser." The next day Warburton went out with Applegarth to his house some ten miles south of Bristol, and dined there, and stayed over night.
"But, colonel," suggested Captain Applegarth, "you might have gone direct to England by one of the West India mail steamers which touch at La Guayra on their route homeward from Colon." "I know that, my friend," said the other. "I could have caught one of them the following week. This would not have suited my purpose, however, sir.
"So I see," said Captain Applegarth laconically. "And it'll freshen still more by-and-bye if I'm not mistaken!" "Yes, it looks as if we're going to have a bit of a blow. The scud is flying all over us now that we are running before the wind. I really think we ought to ease down, sir, for the screw races fearfully as she dips and I'm afraid of the shaft."
I made no reply to the superstitious old seaman's ominous prediction, but as I made my way forward to the bridge, to inform Captain Applegarth and the others of what had happened, I could not help thinking how strange it was that poor Jackson should have recalled, at the very moment the spirit was quitting his crippled body, the fact of my sighting the ship in distress, and the account I had given the skipper of what I had seen on board that mysterious craft!
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