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"Very well, sir," was the answer, but Jack gave the captain a queer look. He found some water coming in, but not more, he thought, than the pumps could take care of, so he reported the matter only to Captain Brisco. "That's good," the commander said, seemingly well pleased. "I guess they can have their fake shipwreck after all, if the weather clears."
Alice cried, echoing the shout of Hen Lacomb, who, she noticed, after his first hesitation, began lowering a boat, or trying to, for it needed two at that task. "I'll help!" cried Alice rushing to the aid of the strange man who seemed so friendly with Captain Brisco. "Oh you !" he exclaimed, with a swift look at her.
"How soon do we go?" asked Alice. "As soon as we can get stocked up. Captain Brisco has a few little repairs to make to the schooner, I believe." "Do you think the Mary Ellen will prove to be a safe boat in which to go to sea?" asked Mr. DeVere, when he, with his daughters, and the others, were on their way back to New York. "Why not?" asked the manager.
So suppose we take a run over there now, and look at her." "That suits me!" exclaimed Jack, to whom matters nautical were as the breath of life. "And I hope you'll sign me on, sir; when it comes to makin' up your crew, sir." "I intend to ship you," was the answer. "Captain Brisco said he would need some good officers. You have a mate's certificate, have you not, Jack."
The sail had been reefed, so the gaff had not fallen as far as otherwise would have been the case. "What's the matter?" shouted Captain Brisco who came up from his cabin with Hen Lacomb. The two were seldom apart of late. A glance served to tell the commander what had happened.
Said he'd been in enough trouble over being falsely accused in a mutiny!" "A mutiny!" exclaimed Captain Brisco. "A mutiny!" "Yes. Why, is that remarkable?" asked the manager, for Captain Brisco seemed startled. "No, oh, no! I don't know as it is. I was only thinking if he was given to starting mutinies, he wouldn't be a safe man to have on board here."
Ruth found voice to say, "and Captain Brisco isn't going to wait for him." "You can't hold a ship still on the ocean, and a storm coming up!" the commander cried, as though to justify himself. "We've got to run for it. It would be madness now to lay to." "But we can't desert Russ and Mr. Sneed!" cried the manager. "I thought he was coming in. What shall we do? We must do something!
"And that is another queer part of it," mused Alice. "That new man is supposed to be a common sailor he must be, as all the offices, from captain down, are filled. And yet Captain Brisco treats him as an equal. I can't understand it." None of the others of the moving picture company appeared to find anything odd in the reception of the man who had almost been left.
That's what I overheard you and Lacomb plannin', and when you suspected I knew, you thought I'd be better off in the sea. That's how I happened to go overboard. I was thrown! That's what I charge you with. Deny it if ye dare!" and he pointed an accusing finger at the two men. "You threw me overboard, Hen Lacomb! And Captain Brisco planned to have you do it!"
Besides, Alice did not want to make too obvious an effort to talk to the old salt, as she feared Captain Brisco would become suspicious. There was a nameless mystery in the air that had its effect on Alice. Ruth noticed a difference in her sister, and questioned her about it, but Alice was able to say it was due to the difficult and exacting work of the new drama, and, in part, it was.
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