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Oh, I haven't been blind. Day after day I've seen the two of you talking about me. Why don't you come out and say it to my face! I know you know. And I know your mind's made up to discharge me at Attu-Attu." "I am sorry you are making such a mess of everything," was Duncan's quiet reply. But Captain Dettmar's mind was set on trouble. "You know you are going to discharge me.
He said, 'My God, Jim! My God! It was funny to see his broken jaw wabble as he said it. Then I smashed him... I say, do you want the rest of the details?" "Is that all you have to say?" was the answer. "Isn't it enough?" Captain Dettmar retorted. "It is enough." "What are you going to do about it?" "Put you ashore at Attu-Attu." "And in the meantime?" "In the meantime..." Duncan paused.
I shall get rid of him at Attu-Attu." But before Duncan climbed into his bunk, he strapped around himself, against the skin and under his pajama coat, a heavy automatic pistol. He fell asleep almost immediately, for his was the gift of perfect relaxation. He did things tensely, in the way savages do, but the instant the need passed he relaxed, mind and body.
You think you are too good to associate with the likes of me you and your wife." "Kindly keep her out of this," Duncan warned. "What do you want?" "I want to know what you are going to do!" "Discharge you, after this, at Attu-Attu." "You intended to, all along." "On the contrary. It is your present conduct that compels me." "You can't give me that sort of talk."
"There she is, the chance in a million!" he cried. "A steamer at that, heading straight for us! By George, it's a cruiser! I have it! the Annapolis, returning with those astronomers from Tutuwanga." United States Consul Lingford was a fussy, elderly gentleman, and in the two years of his service at Attu-Attu had never encountered so unprecedented a case as that laid before him by Boyd Duncan.
We'll be in Attu-Attu in three days. Besides, it's my pig. That old chief what-ever-his-name distinctly presented it to me. You saw him yourself. And then two tins of bullamacow. That's their dinner. And now about the presents. Shall we wait until tomorrow, or give them this evening?" "Christmas Eve, by all means," was the man's judgment.
The latter, with his wife, had been landed there by the Annapolis, which had promptly gone on with its cargo of astronomers to Fiji. "It was cold-blooded, deliberate attempt to murder," said Consul Lingford. "The law shall take its course. I don't know how precisely to deal with this Captain Dettmar, but if he comes to Attu-Attu, depend upon it he shall be dealt with, he ah shall be dealt with.
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