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"The lubbers!" said Captain Applegarth, indignant again as he paced backwards and forwards impatiently, casting an occasional hurried glance at the "tell-tale" suspended from the deck above the saloon table, the shifting dial of which showed we were now changing course to the westward. "The damned lubbers; the damn "
The casualties were very heavy, and included amongst the officers 2nd Lieut. K.B. Stuart, 2nd Lieut. Fell, 2nd Lieut. A.S. Ritson, 2nd Lieut. S. Robson, 2nd Lieut. T.F. Applegarth, and 2nd Lieut. G.W. Robson, all killed, and all the remaining Company officers, except 2nd Lieut. Wharrier, wounded. Amongst the honours awarded were the M.C. to 2nd Lieut. Wharrier and the Military Medal to L.-Cpl.
"Well, I came across Applegarth himself. I was talking to Linklater and jams came up. 'You ought to see my friend Applegarth, said he; and he arranged for us to meet. Applegarth happened to be in town, but he lives down in Somerset, and his factory is at Bristol. We all dined together at the Junior Carlton, and Applegarth and I got on so well that he asked me down to his place.
He will then believe what I have said, Name of God! and know what is in store for himself! "My God! Senor Applegarth and you, gentlemen, I can hardly tell you what followed. It is all too horrible. "The sight of what I saw will haunt me to my grave! "For the shapeless mass I had observed slowly raised itself up from the deck, and I saw that it was my poor Cato.
There was, likewise, little doubt but that the mutineers had robbed those poor fellows, after murdering them like poor Cato, in the forecastle, as the little Englishman had surmised. "Towards sunset, later on in the afternoon last night that was Senor Applegarth, remember, we sighted your vessel in the distance. "Heavens!
The impression made upon him by Applegarth himself was very favourable. The fact that the jam manufacturer was a university man, an astronomer, and a musician, had touched Warburton's weak point, and he went down to Bristol the first time with an undeniable prejudice at the back of his mind; but this did not survive a day or two's intercourse.
Still, when he thought of his mother's weak health, and how she might be affected by the news of this catastrophe, he began seriously to ponder the practicability of well-meaning deception. That, of course, must depend upon their difficulties with Applegarth remaining strictly private; and even so, could Mr. Turnbull's scent for disaster be successfully reckoned with?
"In chase of whom?" asked Captain Applegarth, still believing him to be out of his mind. "In chase of whom?" The man uttered a heart-rending cry, in which anger, grief and piteous appeal were alike blended. "In chase of a band of black miscreants who have committed murder and piracy on the high seas!" he ejaculated in broken accents.
"My first officer here, Mr Fosset, will remain on the bridge during our absence below," interposed Captain Applegarth, anticipating his last, unuttered objection. "He's quite competent to take charge, and I'm sure will let us know the moment the ship comes in sight, if she appears before we return on deck." "Aye, that I will, sir," cried out Mr Fosset.
Captain Applegarth, who was a very old friend of my mother's and a kind one too, likewise, lived in a good substantial house surrounded by a lovely garden in our pretty, picturesque, old village.
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