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He put to sea with this necessary part of a ship in poor condition, not thinking they would be needed. Brisco was a desperate man, and so was Lacomb. They had been involved in more than one shady transaction, and though both may have been aboard with Jack, during the mutiny, they successfully covered their tracks.
I mean something to eat and a place to sleep," he quickly translated. "You has to stay right on board until the voyage ends." "Oh, and could we see where we sleep?" asked Ruth. "The staterooms? Yes, of course," said Captain Brisco, who with Mr. Pertell came forward just then. "Jepson, take the ladies below. If you're a sailor you don't need to be told the way."
Briefly it was this: On his first trip to the schooner, Jack had recognized Brisco as an unscrupulous man who had been engaged in several shady ship transactions. But Brisco denied his identity, and Jack pretended to have been mistaken, in order to throw him off his guard.
"I was steering all right, but Captain Brisco came and spoke to me and handed me a paper. I took one hand off the wheel, and the " "No one has said it was your fault," broke in the commander quickly. "I was giving you a copy of the sailing orders for the day. I wouldn't have bothered you if I had known a puff of wind and a big wave were coming along together, to snatch the wheel out of your grip.
"The Mary Ellen, from New York," answered Captain Brisco. "Out on a moving picture cruise. We're in a hurry." "Better not be," was the exasperating comment. "There's someone here who wants to ask you a few questions." Another figure joined the speaker, and at the sight of this second officer, old Jack Jepson groaned. "I knew it! I knew it," he whispered to Alice.
Still the craft had to be rendered seaworthy, as some views were to be taken showing her progress down the coast to the Florida Straits. A little later Captain Brisco was called below, and he took leave of his visitors, saying he would be busy for some hours. "Well, it's time for us to go," Ruth said. "We promised to meet daddy at dinner," she added to her sister.
It's all very well for Captain Brisco to say he doesn't want Jack to go, but I believe he's glad this happened." "Oh, Alice! What a thing to say!" "I don't care! I believe it!" All this while preparations had been under way aboard the steamer to lower a small boat, but there seemed to be some delay.
Then the forerunner of the storm came, filling the sails of the Mary Ellen, and heeling her over until the lee scuppers were awash. "Make everything snug!" cried Captain Brisco. "It's coming on to blow great guns!" Events aboard the Mary Ellen did not transpire at all slowly.
"What does this mean?" cried Mr. Pertell. "He is trying to start a mutiny as he did once before!" fairly yelled Captain Brisco. "I never started a mutiny before, and I'm not trying to do so now!" retorted Jack, and he seemed to have lost much of his timid simplicity. "I tell you the ship is sinking, and we had best take to the boats while there is time."
"A few more days and we'll pull out of here," announced Captain Brisco, as they went up on deck. "Then I suppose you folks will begin to cut up all sorts of capers," and he smiled indulgently. He seemed to have recovered his good nature, or, rather, perhaps, to have summoned some of it to be used on this occasion. "Well, we'll leave the 'cutting-up' to Mr. Switzer," said Paul with a laugh.
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