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"They're like you afraid of that rotten old volcano." "Blime me! Hand wye wouldn't they be scare't hof hit?" snarled the Cockney. "That bein' the general feelin'," Ditty said calmly, "why we'll stick to my plan. Let the old man dig it up hisself and bring it aboard. "It'll save us the trouble, won't it? And mebbe we can git rid of some of the swabs, one at a time " "Huh!" chuckled Bingo.
"Gawd blime me! but you 'ave the makin' of several quid there, 'aven't you?" Jacob Kent wheeled about, at the same time reaching for his double-barrelled shotgun, which stood handy. But when his eyes lit on the intruder's face, he staggered back dizzily. It was the face of the Man with the Gash! The man looked at him curiously. "Oh, that's all right," he said, waving his hand deprecatingly.
The great tea-pot was still in my hand. I limped to the galley and handed it to him. But he was consumed with indignation, real or feigned. "Gawd blime me if you ayn't a slob. Wot 're you good for anyw'y, I'd like to know? Eh? Wot 're you good for any'wy? Cawn't even carry a bit of tea aft without losin' it. Now I'll 'ave to boil some more.
An' there ain't no blime laid on Godamighty." An' me, I'd nussed the child an' I clawed me 'air sime as if I was 'is mother an' I screamed out, 'Then damn 'im! An' the curick 'e dropped sittin' down on the curbstone an' 'id 'is fice in 'is 'ands." Dart hid his own face after the manner of the wretched curate. "No wonder," he groaned. His blood turned cold.
Took her too! and towed her into Falmouth Roads, all standin, like a kid leadin its mother by the and. Talk o Cochrane and the Speedy! Gor blime! what's he alongside us?" He steadied suddenly. "Ush! ere comes the old man." The boy could hear the stump of a stick on the deck. "What's he wearin?" whispered the other, peering. "You can most always tell the lay he's on by that.
"I'll tell 'e what it is," said one, "if my blinkers falls on them chaps I'll wet the whole damned outfit!" As they entered, the soldier's eye went over the room and lit on the very men in question, seated by themselves in a little side room of the inn. In a low tone he communicated his thought to his companions. "Blime me, I'll eat your mother-in-law if there ain't our meat!"
I used my spare time to chop wood for the cook, and go with the Quartermaster to draw coal. I got back just in time to issue our third meal, which consisted of hot tea, I rinsed out my dixie and returned it to the cookhouse, and went back to the billet with an exhilarated feeling that my day's labor was done. "Blime me, you Yanks are lazy.
'I was 'oping, said the Cockney, with a solemn wink to the gathering, 'as 'ow Number 26 would be took by a toff, and, blime, if it ain't! It were gettin' blinkin' lonesome for me with only Jock 'ere and Frenchy opposite, who ain't bad blokes in their wy, but orful crude for my likin'. 'Where did it hit ye? asked the Scot encouragingly. 'On the head, said Selwyn, pointing to his bandage.
His altered appearance, the black overcoat and the scarf which hid his dress clothes, called for many a "Gor blime" or "Strike me dead." Women caught his arm and wrestled with him, roughs tried to push him from the pavement and were amazed at his good humor. In Union Street he first met little red-haired Chris Denham and asked of her the news.
Kent at last managed to articulate, raising a shaking forefinger to the ghastly scar which seamed the other's cheek. "Shipmate stove me down with a marlin-spike from the main-royal. An' now as you 'ave your figger'ead in trim, wot I want to know is, wot's it to you? That's wot I want to know wot's it to you? Gawd blime me! do it 'urt you? Ain't it smug enough for the likes o' you?
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