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Updated: July 9, 2025
I looked quickly at the table, and saw that Captain Berriman was standing just below the sky-light, when all at once there was a violent crashing of glass, and I saw pistols held down through the light, while almost at the same moment I heard a rustling noise outside, and leaped up. "Look out, Mr Frewen," I whispered; "powder again!"
There was no sail being made or reduced, and it seemed strange for any one to be up there, and it had just struck me that perhaps it was Captain Berriman, who had seen Mr Brymer and Mr Frewen talking together and had gone up to listen, when, so close to me that I wondered I was not seen, somebody stepped down on to the top of the bulwarks, and then swung himself softly on to the deck; then crouching down close under the side, he crept forward swiftly and was gone.
"Too ill, too much prostrated," sighed the great fellow, who lay, as I thought, like a sick elephant, when he had dropped back on to the pillow. "Captain Berriman said something about seeing to your fish, sir." "My fish! Ah, yes; you shall look at them for me." "But it really is nice and fresh on deck, sir." "Yes, for you." "And it seems to be doing Mr Denning and his sister ever so much good."
But Captain Berriman agrees with me that it is our duty, unless we like to well provision a boat and leave the ship." "But that would be a terrible alternative," said Mr Frewen, hastily. "Terrible, sir; and a cowardly and unfaithful one to the owners of the vessel." "But can we not keep the men down until you are able to run into some port?" "When we have run into the region of calms.
Governor Berriman had a brother in town that week, attending a meeting of the State Agricultural Society. Hiram Berriman had a large farm in the southern part of the State. He knew but little of political methods, and had primitive ideas about honesty. There had always been a strong tie between the brothers, despite the fact that Hiram was fifteen years the Governor's senior.
"You believe if it were a matter of popular vote, Huntington would be the new Senator?" "There can be no doubt of that, Governor. I think they all have to admit that. Huntington is the man the people want." "That's all, Mr. Haines. I merely wondered what you thought about it." Soon after that Governor Berriman rang for a messenger boy and sent a telegram.
"Below there," he cried. "I'm behaving better to you than you all deserve. Some men would have pitched you all overboard to drown. Now then, listen you, Captain Berriman; you can row west and get into the line the packets take, or you can row east and make the coast somewhere, if you don't get caught in a storm and go to the bottom. But that's none of my doing, I can't help that.
"That don't matter, Berriman," cried Jarette; "we have plenty of powder, and you can't say the same about water." I started at this, for it struck me that I had been pouring precious drops away which might mean life. But I laughed directly after, as I recalled the fact that we had only to drop a bucket out of the stern-windows and haul up as much salt water as we liked.
It will only be like going on again with your old messmate here, and I dare say I can promote you faster than you would have been under Captain Berriman." "But where are we going? What do you mean to do with the ship?" "What's that to you? There, I offer you your chance; will you join us?"
If a Senator ain't an honest man, he's a thief; and if he ain't lookin' after the welfare of the people, he's bamboozlin' them, and that's all there is about it. I don't know much about politics, but I ain't lived my life without learning a little about right and wrong, and it's a sorry day we've come to, John Berriman, if right and wrong don't enter into the makin' of a Senator!"
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