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"Who has?" "My conscience." "I don't get your drift." Through a moment of pause Calder's eyes searched the face of Hardy. "You've been pretty flush for some time." "I ain't been starvin'." "There are several easy ways for you to pick up extra money." "Yes?" "For instance, you know all about the Wells Fargo money shipments, and there are men around here who'd pay big for what you could tell them."
The angareb stood in a wash of water on the very spot to which at Calder's order it had been moved that morning. And on the angareb the figure beneath the black covering lay as motionless as ever, as inexpressive of life and feeling, though the cold spray broke continually upon its face. "I thought it would be so," said Calder.
He seemed, indeed, to have been impressed with an expectation that he should fall in the battle. In a letter to his brother, written immediately after his return, he had said: "We must not talk of Sir Robert Calder's battle I might not have done so much with my small force.
Six or seven foot o' dead watter in the engine-room is a vara depressin' sight if ye think there's like to be more comin'; but I did not consider that such was likely, and so, yell note, I was not depressed." "That's all very well, but I want to know about the water," I said. "I've told ye. There was six feet or more there, wi' Calder's cap floatin' on top." "Where did it come from?"
They regretted that Nelson, with his eleven ships, had not been in Sir Robert Calder's place; and their disappointment was generally and loudly expressed.
Major Walters, too, it seemed, in spite of his hopeful prophecies, had pondered during the night over Calder's story, and he leaned across the table to Calder. "Did you never inquire whom Durrance talked with at Tewfikieh on that night?" he asked. "I did, and there's a point that puzzles me," said Calder.
"'It would grieve them sore, I said. "'But the crew would not hear o' stayin' and workin' her back under canvas. They're gaun up an' down sayin' they'd ha' starved first. "'They'd ha' starved if they'd stayed, said I. "'I tak' it, fra Calder's account, there was a mutiny a'most. "'Ye know more than I, McRimmon' I said.
Rawson, Morton, and the rest promised implicitly to follow Mr Calder's directions. It was agreed that the instant the ship struck, Morton and Twigg should hasten down to release their own men below, and to tell them what had been resolved on. There was little doubt, even in the expected extremity, that they would willingly follow Mr Calder's directions.
"But this isn't the stage. Are we going to talk business like friends?" "I've got nothing agin you," said Hardy testily, and his eyes followed Calder's right hand as if fascinated. "What do you want to say? I'll listen. I'm not very busy." "That's exactly it," smiled Tex Calder, "I want you to get busier." "Thanks." "In the first place I'll be straight with you. Wells Fargo hasn't sent me here."
Calder's reluctance to quit his flagship, and the keen sensitiveness with which he expressed his feelings, drew from Nelson a concession he knew to be wrong, but which is too characteristic, both in the act itself and in his own account of it, to be omitted.
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