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The presence of the gentleman lighted up like a candle the vulgarity of the clerk; and Herrick instinctively, as one shields himself from pain, made haste to interrupt. "My name is Hay," said he, "since introductions are going. We shall be very glad if you will step inside." Attwater leaned to him swiftly. "University man?" said he.
Remember your first view of the island, and how it's only woods and water; and suppose you had asked somebody for the name, and he had answered nemorosa Zacynthos! 'Jam medio apparet fluctu! exclaimed Herrick. 'Ye gods, yes, how good! 'If it gets upon the chart, the skippers will make nice work of it, said Attwater. 'But here, come and see the diving-shed.
"If I were you, I would pick up that pistol, come up to the house, and put on some dry clothes," said Attwater. "If you really mean it?" said Herrick. "You know they we they.... But you know all." "I know quite enough," said Attwater. "Come up to the house." And the captain, from the deck of the Farallone, saw the two men pass together under the shadow of the grove.
"So you mean to tell me now, that you sit here evenings and ring up ... well, ring on the angels ... by yourself?" "As a matter of historic fact, and since you put it directly, one does not," said Attwater.
"I believe you, my boy!" replied the genial Huish. "That is right, then; and quite understood, is it not?" said Attwater. "Mr. Whish and Captain Brown at six-thirty without fault and you, Hay, at four sharp." And he called his boat. During all this talk a load of thought or anxiety had weighed upon the captain.
"You are wrong there," said the other, "as a man usually is about himself. You are attractive, very attractive." "It is not me," said Herrick; "no one can like me. If you knew how I despised myself and why!" His voice rang out in the quiet graveyard. "I knew that you despised yourself," said Attwater. "I saw the blood come into your face to-day when you remembered Oxford.
And even Huish showed a little in that sacredness; by the tacit adoption of daily life they were become brothers; there was an implied bond of loyalty in their cohabitation of the ship and their past miseries; to which Herrick must be a little true or wholly dishonoured. Horror of sudden death for horror of sudden death, there was here no hesitation possible: it must be Attwater.
But do I? said Attwater. 'One thing I know at least: I never gave a cry like yours. Hay! it came from a bad conscience! Ah, man, that poor diving dress of self-conceit is sadly tattered! Today, now, while the sun sets, and here in this burying place of brown innocents, fall on your knees and cast your sins and sorrows on the Redeemer. Hay 'Not Hay! interrupted the other, strangling.
"You go always armed?" he said, and the next moment could have plucked his tongue out. "Always," said Attwater. "I have been through a mutiny here; that was one of my incidents of missionary life." And just then the sound of voices reached them, and looking forth from the verandah they saw Huish and the captain drawing near.
He bent over the insignificant figure of Huish, where it grovelled, apparently insensible, at the base of the figure-head. "Dead?" he asked. "No, he's not dead," said Davis. "And Attwater?" asked Herrick. "Now you just shut your head!" replied Davis. "You can do that, I fancy, and by God, I'll show you how! I'll stand no more of your drivel."
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