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I was thinking of this and of his tender relationship with children as I had noticed it, and of his service to the late colonel when one day being in the store, I said: "Do you stand on the Bible completely, Mr. Burridge?" "Yes, sir," he replied, "I do." "Believe every word of it to be true?" "Yes, sir." "If your brother has offended you, how many times must you forgive him?"
Once I saw him most considerately helping a cripple up the lane to the local Baptist Church. "What's the trouble between Burridge and Palmer?" I asked of the sail-maker finally, coming to think that here, if anywhere, lay the solution of the difficulty. "Two big fish in too small a basket," he responded laconically. "Can't agree, eh?" "They both want to lead, or did," he said.
John Burridge, one hundred guineas." "You subscribe largely, Mr. Burridge," I said, handing him back the paper. He rubbed his big hands together. "The Lord will repay a hundredfold," he answered. "In which case it's just as well to have a note of the advance down in black and white, eh?" I added. His little eyes looked sharply at me; but he made no reply, and, shaking hands, I left him. Bump.
They had no fancy to remain prisoners for ever, and they determined that if not released by their captors, they would endeavour if possible to escape by themselves. Burridge had been allowed to join them in the cabin. He told them he was afraid that the rest of the crew had joined the pirates, as they had all left the vessel shouting and singing, and apparently in very good-humour.
He was a lean, inquisitive individual with a shock of sandy hair and a conspicuous desire to appear a well-rounded social factor. "What sort of person is this Burridge over here? He keeps such a peculiar store." "Elihu is a bit peculiar," he replied, his smile betraying a desire to appear conservative. "The fault with Elihu, if he has one, is that he's terribly strong on religion.
His two young midshipmen Dick Lovatt and Ned Hawke had become particularly-attached to him, while Will Burridge, the old quarter-master, would have gone through fire and water to serve him. On one occasion, Burridge, whether he had had too much Jamaica rum on board or not it was difficult to say, managed to fall overboard into the harbour swarming with sharks.
The dispute was long and very sharp, and Burridge behaved therein so as to meet with extraordinary commendations. These had the worst effect upon him imaginable, for they so far puffed him up, that he thought himself worthier of command than most of the officers on the ship, and therefore was not a little uneasy at being obliged to obey them.
When those who years before had followed him obediently now pricked him with theological pins and ventured to disagree with him, he was quick and sometimes foolish in his replies. "What's that?" inquired Burridge, looking up. "I see you sell tobacco." "I see you chew it," returned the host grimly. "I know I do," returned his visitor, "but I'll tell you what I'll do, Elihu.
Palmer was the owner of a small shipyard here at the time, a thing which was not much at first but which grew swiftly. He was born in Noank also, a few years before Burridge, and as a builder of vessels had been slowly forging his way to a moderate competence when Elihu was already successful.
The assassins, having killed the unhappy victim, and taken all his property, to the very shirt on his back, finally culmination of horrors! sold the body to the doctors. Such was the account which James Burridge gave of London, with the effect of striking terror into the hearts of his hearers.
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