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Then we listened again, and heard door after door opened, as Jarette went round to see his prisoners; and principally, I fancy, to make sure, as he used his eyes sharply, that no one was likely to escape. Door after door was opened, and then we heard fierce angry voices, one of which I was sure was Captain Berriman's.
No one had ever worked very hard for Senator Berriman's vote. He had been put in by the machine, and it had always been assumed that he was machine property. Berriman himself had never given the matter of his place in the human drama much thought. He had an idea that it was proper for him to vote with his friends, and he always did it.
"Ah, Brymer! At last!" he cried. "Well?" "Yes, it's well, skipper," said Mr Brymer. "I think we shall save the ship." Captain Berriman's lips moved, as his eyes closed for a few moments. "Can you eat this?" said the mate, offering his sandwich. "Oh no. Miss Denning has been attending to me, bless her!" "Amen, and a double blessing," said Mr Brymer.
"Well, no," he replied, with a smile. "I'm afraid I tried to impose upon our new captain by assuming to be very much concerned about poor Berriman's state; but I had another reason as well. I wanted to try and have a few words with the Dennings, whom I could hear in the next cabin." "Yes; and did you?" I asked eagerly. "No, I was too closely watched.
He came at last, though, to my very great relief, and told me that he thought Jarette, in spite of his display of bravado and carelessness, was alarmed about Captain Berriman's state, and afraid that he would die. "And is he in a dangerous state?" I asked anxiously. "No; only a little feverish, as the natural result of his wound." "That was what made you stay so long then?" I said.
He now stood between the parcel and the cabin-door so as to shelter our treasure, which was turned out of the canvas the next minute, and proved to be the weapons named, a pair that I remembered to have seen in Captain Berriman's cabin, and with them plenty of ammunition. "Loaded!" whispered Mr Frewen. "Be careful with yours." "Mine?" I said.
"I wish you wouldn't joke me about my bad face, Mr Frewen," I said, as we entered the far cabin, where the mate was seated by Captain Berriman's cot, and I was startled to see how changed he looked. But his eyes were bright, and he held out his hand to each in turn, as we stood about with the door well open, the place of course being very small.
If you spoke about what we have said, and it reached Captain Berriman's ear now he is in that excitable state, he would immediately think I was conspiring against him, go frantic, and there might be terrible mischief. So don't say a word, even to your messmate, or he'll go chattering to that French scoundrel and the rest of the men. By the way, Dale, let me give you a word of advice.
"Because I order you," he shouted. "And because you are afraid." I did not catch what he said, but there was a little stir in one of the boats, and directly after I saw a figure appear at the window of Captain Berriman's cabin and begin to climb in. "There he is," whispered Bob Hampton. "Sarve him right if the boys rowed away and left him."
I take it that in appointing him, John, you feel sure he will guard the interests of the people before everything else, and that the people I mean the working people of this State will always be safe in his hands; do you?" "Oh, Lord, no, Hiram!" exclaimed the Governor irritably. "I don't think that at all!" Hiram Berriman's brown face warmed to a dull red. "You don't?" he cried.
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