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"Yes, yes!" he sed, nervously, "but mercy on us, don't be so noisy." "Ay, ay, my heart! But let me sing about how Jack Stokes lost his gal: 'The reason why he couldn't gain her, Was becoz he's drunken saler! "That's very good, indeed," said the Secky, "but this is hardly the place to sing songs in, my frend."
I would be glad ef you would quit now; but I'll not stand in your way, becoz I've agreed to stand by you already." With this understanding, the rascals returned to the house if house it could be called and very soon afterward intimated that they would retire.
"It's the doc! It's Carlsen who's turned 'em into a lot of bloody bolsheviks, sir. Told 'em they ought to have an ekal share in the gold. Ekal all round, all except Tamada an' me. I don't count. An' Tamada's a Jap. The men is sore at Mr. Lund becoz he sez the skipper left him be'ind on the ice. Carlsen's worked that up, too. Said Lund made 'em all out to be cowards. 'Cept Hansen, that is.
You had to band together in a pack, like a flock of sheep, with Carlsen for sheepherder. I'm talking," he went on in a tone that suddenly leaped to thunder. "None of you have got the brains of Carlsen, becoz he had to put this scheme inter yore noddles.
Last of all, the ropes and chains they got busted off becoz of my growing so big and strong down there, and up I comes to blow like a grampus, for I were full of water by reason that it had soaked into me. So that's how I got to be the Old Man of the Sea, hundreds and hundreds of years ago." "And do you like to be always in the sea, Old Bill?" asked Martin. "Ho, ho, ho!" laughed the monster.
But don't you go and put me into the sea, says I, 'becoz it's wrote that I ain't never going to git drowned, and you'll have all your trouble for nothing, says I. That made 'em larf a most tremenjous larf.
I've got that kind of a card, matey, an' I ain't goin' to spoil my fun by tellin' even you what it is, though yo're my partner in this gamble. It's a trump, an' Carlsen's overlooked it. He figgers he's stacked the deck an' fixed it so's he deals himself all the winnin' cards. But there's one he don't know is there becoz he's more of a blind fool than I am, is Doctor Carlsen."
"An', if things go right with us, an' we ever sight the smoke of a Jap gunboat comin' our way, the first thing I'll be apt to do will be to scrag Tamada or he'll blow the whole proposition, whether we've got the gold aboard or not. Even if he didn't want to tell becoz of his own share, they'd git it out of him what we was after."
I were very small then, and used to go and play all day in the marshes, and I loved the cows and water-rats and all the little beasties, same as you, Martin. When I were a bit growed Granny says to me one day, 'Bill, you go to sea and be a sailor-boy, she says, 'becoz I've had a dream, she says, 'and it's wrote that you'll never git drowned. For you see, Martin, my Granny were a wise woman.
He felt guilty, glad that Lund could not see his face, and he dropped the subject abruptly. Lund seemed to know that something was amiss. "Nervous, Rainey?" he asked. "That's becoz you've not bin livin' a man's life. All yore experience has bin second-hand, an' you've never gone into a rough-an'-tumble, I take it. You'll make out all right if it comes to that at all.
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