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They were nine in all, and Carroway himself the tenth, all sturdy fellows, and for the main of it tolerably honest; Cadman, Ellis, and Dick Hackerbody, and one more man from Bridlington, the rest a re-enforcement from Spurn Head, called up for occasion. "Landlord, produce your best, and quickly," the officer said, as he threw himself into the arm-chair of state, being thoroughly tired.
The young man laughed, and the boat's from the Francis Cadman, drawing near, heard the mocking laughter and ceased rowing, chilled with a superstitious terror. 'Good God! cried the look-out, 'there's two of 'em.
Skag was realising what it would have meant to him, if Cadman had failed; so he asked vaguely something about the Rose-pearl. "Don't let yourself get interested in her, son. That family is like a secret sanctuary; and she is the holy thing behind the altar. She's unattainable." They left the train at Sehora and struck out through rough country, following Dickson Sahib's directions.
"Cadman, and Ellis, and Dick Hackerbody," the lieutenant of the coast-guard shouted, "you have fed well. Be off, men; no more neglect of duty! Place an outpost at fork of the Sewerby road, and strictly observe the enemy, while I hold a council of war with my brother officer, Captain Anerley. Half a crown for you, if you catch the rogue, half a crown each, and promotion of twopence.
Cadman was well aware of this little fact, but left his commander to find it out. Cadman, a short square fellow with crafty eyes, began to do so. "Captain, I have hit it off at last. Hackerbody put me wrong last time, through the wench he hath a hankering after.
And you must remember, my darling Tilly, that I command Englishmen, not Lascars." With this she was forced to be content, to the best of her ability; and Geraldine ran bouncing in from school to fill her father's pipe for him; so that by the time John Cadman came, his commander had almost forgotten the wrath created by the failure of the morning.
Cadman; "housekeeper and me was talking about Mrs. Jones's little boy." "Where does Mrs. Jones live?" I asked. "In London town, my dear." I sighed. I knew nothing of London town, and could not prove that Mrs. Jones had no existence. My sleep was broken by uneasy dreams, in which Mrs. Jones figured with the face of Mrs. Cadman and her hollow voice.
Turning to face Cadman and Skag, the man said gently: "The way lies before you. Go swiftly now. Peace." And rising softly in the dead hush, he moved away.
Many stories about Cadman had come to Skag in the three or four days of preparation altogether astonishing adventures of his quest for death, but there was no record of Cadman's choosing a friend, as he had done for this expedition. Skag never ceased to marvel at the sudden softenings, so singularly attractive, in Cadman's look when he really began to talk.
In good time the native replied that the white man's name was Cadman: that he was an American traveller and writer and artist, said to be almost illustrious; that he had been out recently with a party of English sportsmen, but found tiger-hunting dull after his many wars and adventures.
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