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"And sarve him jolly well right," growled Hampton, looking at me as I hurried forward to where Captain Berriman was following up one of the sailors, who, with his hand to his bleeding cheek, was gazing fiercely at his officer and backing away toward the forecastle. "Yes," shouted the captain, "get down below and don't show yourself to me again to-day, you scoundrel.
"I am sorry to say, though, that Captain Berriman is completely prostrated. He must have received a crushing blow from behind." "Then you will fight?" said Mr Denning, eagerly. "Of course," said the mate quickly. "Now, gentlemen, please, the first thing is to pile up all the chests and boxes we have at command in the companion-way, so as to keep out the ruffians.
I glanced at Mr Denning, and saw him wince. "Then you will agree with Captain Berriman and me that some very stern measures must be taken?" "Yes," said Mr Preddle. "I do, certainly," replied Mr Denning. Mr Frewen and I were both silent; but at last the doctor spoke. "What do you propose doing?" he said, rather huskily.
Berriman, in a brief but very interesting manual entitled Principles of Flight, assumed that 'there is a significant dimension of which the effective area is an expression of the second power, while the weight became an expression of the third power.
Berriman I don't think much of him nor of the ship; I shall shift into another line after this trip. It isn't good enough for me." "I wonder whether I shall talk like that," I thought to myself, "when I've been on a voyage." Then aloud: "Shall we go on deck for a bit, and see if we can do anything?" "Not likely," was the shortly uttered reply. "What's the good?
And now that Mr Frewen did speak it was quite aloud, for there was no need for whispering. "I was thinking about what Captain Berriman and Mr Brymer must feel," I said. "About the management of the ship? Yes, poor fellows, and both suffering too. You see that scoundrel has let the whole day pass by without letting me go and attend the captain.
But as he spoke I noticed how he watched Captain Berriman, and seemed to take special heed of him as he whispered the above words evidently with pain. "Is it very bad, doctor?" he whispered now after Mr Frewen had been busy about his breast, and shoulder for a few minutes. "You can tell me, I can bear it." "Bad enough, but not so bad as it might have been if it had gone an inch lower.
The first was easier, but the latter more profitable if they could "put it over." They might never be so near the line again, and they thought that they saw signs of wavering among the Blues. They decided then to try for the greater prize and buck the line. Berriman, their halfback, bowled over Chamberlain for a gain of four yards.
"What does he say?" asked Mr Frewen. "Says he is so glad, sir." "Thank him, and ask him about the passengers, whether any one is hurt." I whispered the question through the hole, and listened for the answer. "Captain Berriman and Mr Brymer both wounded again in the struggle, when the men rushed into the saloon after the explosion. Now shut up in their cabins."
"Powder!" said Jarette, laconically, "half a keg. It's their own fault, my lads. They shall soon see who is master here." There was a quick movement in the cabin then, and Captain Berriman turned to Mr Frewen. "Try and make more of an opening," he said. "We must have full play for the guns." The doctor nodded and drew back three of the chests a little. "That ought to do," he said.
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