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Updated: June 24, 2025
Since leaving New Orleans I have traveled an innocent journey straight to you. And when I make my fortune I shall be in a position to return and " "Claim the pressed flower?" suggested the Padre. He did not smile. "Ah, you remember how those things are!" said Gaston: and he laughed and blushed. "Yes," said the Padre, looking at the anchored barkentine, "I remember how those things are."
"I suppose you'll say next that the relief skipper will be happy in poor old Captain Noah's berth, eh?" Matt interrupted. He grinned at Mr. Murphy. "Mike, listen to me. There isn't going to be any relief skipper. You're going back to Hoquiam, Grays Harbor, Washington, U. S. A., as chief kicker of the barkentine Retriever, and you're going to take orders from me all the way.
The first thing that the rays of morning gilded was the battered hulk of a Norwegian barkentine ashore off the Beach of Nazaret, its nose buried in the sand, its midships awash, its bilges agape and in splinters, while strips of canvas floated from the rigging tangled about the broken masts. The ship had carried a cargo of Northern lumber.
I herewith tender my resignation as master of the barkentine Retriever, same to take effect on my return from Sydney or before I sail, if you desire. If I do not hear from you before I sail I shall assume that it will be all right to quit when I get back from Australia. I will not be twenty-three years old until the Fourth of July.
Finally he looked up and eyed Mr. Skinner over the rims of his spectacles. "Skinner," he said solemnly, "do you realize, my boy, that we have two extremely remarkable men on the barkentine Retriever?" "They are certainly most remarkably deficient in respect to their superiors, though in all probability exceedingly capable seamen," Mr.
There were more plants in the western windows also, for the sitting room occupied the whole width of the house at that point. The pictures upon the wall were almost all of the sea, paintings of schooners, and one of the "Barkentine Hawkeye, of Boston. Captain James Phipps, leaving Surinam, August 12, 1872."
I cannot say, for instance, just how the theft was committed, but it is certain that Freeman was not aware of it until a considerable time had passed. What did concern him particularly was the absence of the Malay when the barkentine was weighing anchor and giving a line for a tow out to sea.
But the loss will do you a heap of good and I guess Florry can wait a while." He paused and eyed Matt meditatively for fully a minute. "And you kicked my barkentine ashore with the quick water from your tug's propeller," he mused aloud. "Got her where you wanted her and Murphy didn't suspect! He laid it to the current!" Cappy shook his head.
Now four days wasted means something to a big barkentine like the Retriever; and in the absence of any excuse for the delay Cappy Ricks promptly came to the conclusion that Matt Peasley was ashore in Seattle, disporting himself after the time-honored custom of deep-sea sailors home from a long cruise.
For a while the vessel and its cargo and the landed men and various business and conversations occupied them. But the freight for the mission once seen to, there was not much else to detain them. The barkentine was only a coaster like many others which had begun to fill the sea a little more of late years, and presently host and guest were riding homeward.
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