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"Very well," replied the lieutenant, who was lying down in his standing bed-place. "The people say one is the Happy-go-lucky, sir," drawled Smith. "Heh? what! Happy-go-lucky? Yes, I recollect; I've boarded her twenty times always empty. How's she standing?" "She stands to the westward now, sir; but she was hove to, they say, when they first saw her."
Jackson took the precaution to get into his bed-place before he commenced drinking; and, as soon as he had taken his second dose, he asked me what sort of songs I liked. My reply naturally was, that I had never heard any one sing but him, and therefore could not say. "What did I sing to you last night?" said he. I replied as well as I could.
I continued to cook, to eat, and to sleep as before, when a circumstance occurred, which put an end to all my culinary madness. One night I found the water washing by the side of my standing bed-place in the cabin, and jumping out in alarm to ascertain the cause, I plunged over head and ears.
He flung all his worldly possessions into the empty bed-place, gauged with another shrewd look the risks of the proceeding, then leaped up to the Finn, who stood pensive and dull. "I'll teach you to swell around," he yelled. "I'll plug your eyes for you, you blooming square-head." Most of the men were now in their bunks and the two had the forecastle clear to themselves.
Two hours before sunset, I went down again to the rocks, and called till I was hoarse. It was all in vain; night closed in, and again I returned to the cabin, and threw myself down in my bed-place in utter despair. "I thought he loved me," said I to myself, "loved me as I loved him; I would not have left him in that way."
I'll tame you, as you used to say to me." The blow on the head appeared to have confused him; but after a time he crawled back to his bed-place, and threw himself down with a heavy groan. I then went down to the water's edge to see if I could find anything from the wreck, for the water was smooth, and no longer washed over the rocks of the island.
He had spoken once, and therefore I argued that he would speak again, nor was I wrong in my calculations. One night, after he had finished his usual allowance of liquor, and had composed himself for sleep, I observed that he was unusually restless, changing his position in his bed-place every few minutes, and, at last, he muttered, "Captain James. Well, what of Captain James, eh?"
Jackson threw himself back in his bed-place and was silent. So was I, for I was recalling all that he had told me, and my doubts were raised as to the truth of it. I did not like his hurrying over the latter portion of his narrative in the way which he had done. What he had said about my mother was not satisfactory.
In a pause I went on meeting instinctively the heavy rolling of the ship, and Jacques put his feet upon the couch. The curtain of my bed-place swung to and fro as if it were a punkah, the bulkhead lamp circled in its gimbals, and now and then the cabin door rattled slightly in the gusts of wind.
At last we saw a small hole in a rock, which looked like the mouth of a cave. "`There will be a comfortable bed-place inside that place, mate, says I, as I poked my head into the hole, while Abraham stood outside. It was almost dark inside, but still there was light enough to make out that, there was a good big place further in.
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