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Peasley, your meager maritime experience renders prohibitive compliance request. Retain charge master's pay pending arrival successor. Bluestar. Having dispatched his message to Matt Peasley, Mr. Skinner, as he thought, had dismissed Peasley from his thoughts forever.
Bluestar. Having dispatched this cablegram and ended it all, as it were, Mr. Skinner next cast his cold gray glance adown the duplicate crew list borrowed from the deputy shipping commissioner, and discovered that the second mate shipped at San Francisco was one Christian Swenson. "I do hope he's not a drinking man," Skinner sighed.
Cable him instantly, Skinner, that if he spends another cent of our money in unnecessary cablegrams I'll fire him." He snapped his fingers. "Attend to it, Skinner, attend to it." Mr. Skinner attended to it, and the following morning he found this reply on his desk when he came down to work: Cape Town, Feb. 17, 19 . Bluestar, San Francisco. Holler when you're hit. Paid for it myself.
"It may be that he is a most excellent sailor. At least, he spends his money like one." Cappy had no further comment to make, and the reply to this impudent communication was accordingly left to Mr. Skinner, who cabled: San Francisco, Feb. 17th, 19 . Rickstar, Cape Town. No! Bluestar. "I think that will settle the upstart," Mr. Skinner declared confidently as he rang for a messenger boy.
Bluestar, San Francisco: Captain knifed Kru boy argument boat fare. Instruct consignees honor my drafts as captain. Matthew Peasley, Mate. "The murdering black hound!" Cappy murmured in an awed voice. "If he hasn't gone and killed the best skipper I ever had! Poor Kendall! Why, Noah and I were good friends, Skinner.
It did not. Four hours later he received this: Cape Town, Feb. 17, 19 . Bluestar, San Francisco. Why? Peasley. Now it was a custom of Mr. Skinner's, when a subordinate laid claim to an inalienable right which the general manager was not willing to concede, to regard with very grave suspicion that subordinate's loyalty to the company. If the subordinate protested Mr.
The following cablegram received from Matt Peasley knocked into a cocked hat all their high hopes of ridding themselves of the incubus. Cape Town, Feb. 17, 19 . Bluestar, San Francisco. Swenson fired before leaving San Francisco. Second mate Murphy declines take your orders, claiming me superior officer; I decline also, claiming captain en route my superior officer.
Bluestar, San Francisco. Skipper dying sea foreign port unwritten maritime law stipulates mate succeeds. Yankee can sail anything afloat. This my chance. Grant it or insure successor's life. Will throw him overboard on arrival. Peasley. Mr. Skinner promptly carried this defi to Cappy Ricks. "He's a sea-lawyer," Cappy piped angrily. "The scoundrel! The un-mi-ti-ga-ted scoundrel!
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