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Updated: June 11, 2025
"This this is my soul and body! Jedediah come alive again!" The returned gold-hunter swallowed several times. "Thankful," he faltered, "I know you must feel pretty hard agin me, but but, you see " "Hush! hush! Don't speak to me for a minute. Let me get my bearin's, for mercy sakes, if I can. . . . Jedediah HERE!" "Yes yes, I'm here. I am, honest. "Sshh!
"About three minutes later I'm over'auled by our sub-lootenant, navigatin' under forced draught, with his bearin's 'eated. 'E had the temerity to say I'd instructed our Antonio to sling his carcass in the alleyway, an' 'e was peevish about it. O' course, I prevaricated like 'ell. You get to do that in the service. Nevertheless, to oblige Mr. Ducane, I went an' readjusted Antonio.
There's more discernment in a dog than a Jew. What garred ye curse your Board, McPhee? It's expensive. "'They'll pay more for the Breslau, I said. 'Get off my knee, ye smotherin' beast. "'Bearin's hot, eh? said McRimmon. 'It's thirty year since a man daur curse me to my face. Time was I'd ha' cast ye doon the stairway for that. "'Forgie's all! I said. He was wearin' to eighty, as I knew.
On the far side, the passage fell very suddenly for several hundred feet to the floor of the other canyon. No hunter could have seen it, or suspected it from that side. "This is Grand Canyon country, an' nobody knows what he's goin' to find," was Frank's comment. "Now we're in Nail Canyon proper," said Stewart; "An' I know my bearin's.
A few minutes later the sun was out again, and one of the strangest phases of life on the reef had come and gone. "I 'spec' dat was a narrer 'scape," said old Sandy, "but I tuk de only chance. We was boun' to strike somewhere, an' de squall jes' got off in time for me to take bearin's of disher five-foot channel; an', it's a fac', I'se been fru a heap o' times, but dat was de wustest, sho' 'nuff."
"You don't mean to say " "I don't mean to say nothin' till I know who I'm talkin' ter." Whately gave a long, low whistle and then muttered "Impossible!" "Oh, sut'ny," remarked Perkins ironically. The two men gave each other a long searching look; then Perkins resumed, "That's right, Leftenant, take yer bearin's. I don't see ez you kin do me any special good, ner harm nuther.
"'She'll be fillin' aft, says Bell; 'for why is she down by the stern? The tail-shaft's punched a hole in her, an' we 've no boats. There's three hunder thousand pound sterlin', at a conservative estimate, droonin' before our eyes. What's to do? An' his bearin's got hot again in a minute: he was an incontinent man. "'Run her as near as ye daur, I said.
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