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Updated: May 17, 2025
Now, black-hearted Cyclops,”—Cimon’s tone was not gentle,—“where are your papers?” Hiram had turned gray as a corpse, but his white teeth came together. “Phormio is mistaken. Your slave has none.” “Bah!” threw out Cimon, “I can smell your lies like garlic. Silent still? Good, see how I am better than Asclepius. I make the dumb talk by a miracle. A cord and belaying-pin, Naon.”
At the same moment Bill lost his hold of the belaying-pin which had served to steady him, and he slid with stunning violence against the skylight. As he lay on the deck close beside me, I could see that the shock had rendered him insensible; but I did not dare to quit the tiller for an instant, as it required all my faculties, bodily and mental, to manage the schooner.
"Aft here, some hands," I cried, "and lay the mainyard aback. Let go the port main-braces!" The captain came running toward me. "By the living God!" I cried in a fury, grasping the heavy brass belaying-pin, "if you come within a foot of me, Captain Coxon, I'll dash your brains out!" My attitude, my enraged face and menacing gesture, produced the desired effect.
"Now," thought I, "they may try to murder me!" And without a word I pulled off my coat, seized a belaying-pin, and stood ready; resolved that happen what might, I would give the first man who should lay his fingers on me something to remember me by while he had breath in his body.
The group gathered about the companion-way made an instinctive effort to save themselves, Rex Fortescue flinging his arm about Violet Dudley's waist and dragging her with him to the mizen-mast, where he hung on desperately to a belaying-pin. Brook nimbly scrambled upon the upturned weather side of the companion.
But don't shout, or some 'un 'll hear you, and 'll come along the deck overhead and cut me adrift." "But what are you doing there?" "Hanging on to a bit o' line made fast to a belaying-pin." "But why? What do you want, sir?" "Will yer keep quiet, my lad?" whispered the man, excitedly. "I don't want to hear old Jarette sawing through this rope. What do I want?
Massy slapped his forehead, tottered a little, caught hold of a belaying-pin at the foot of the mast. "I shall go mad," he muttered, walking across the deck unsteadily. A shovel was scraping loose coal down below a fire-door clanged. Sterne on the bridge began whistling a new tune. Captain Whalley, sitting on the couch, awake and fully dressed, heard the door of his cabin open.
A loose belaying-pin was soon found; and, provided with this, we then returned to the fore-scuttle, noiselessly placed the cover in position, and thrust the pin through the staple thus effectually imprisoning the crew. "Now another belaying-pin and a rope's-end a fathom or so off the end of the topgallant halliards will do to secure this vigilant look-out in the galley."
As Wilbur helped her to her feet, she put her hand to her forehead, where his knuckles had left their mark, and frowned at him, but not ill-naturedly. "Next time you do that," she said, "use a rock or a belaying-pin, or something that won't hurt not your fist, mate." She looked at him admiringly. "What a two-fisted, brawny dray-horse it is!
The pitch in the seams was soft as putty, the atmosphere was full of the smell of blistered paint, and it was like putting your hand on a red-hot stove to touch the binnacle hood or grasp for an an instant an iron belaying-pin. A sort of loathing comes into a man with a calm like this.
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