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It 'uz pow'ful hot, deckhan's en roustabouts 'uz sprawled aroun' asleep on de fo'cas'l', de second mate, Jim Bangs, he sot dah on de bitts wid his head down, asleep 'ca'se dat's de way de second mate stan' de cap'n's watch! en de ole watchman, Billy Hatch, he 'uz a-noddin' on de companionway; en I knowed 'em all; en, lan', but dey did look good!
"Madame, I do assure you," and the Baron is most emphatic, "if you vill trust to go vidth me I see dthat you come safe back before San Miguel sails." The second mate comes up with an amused look. "You ladies jest go 'long; th' Cap'n's alwus like that; nobuddy minds. We can't get away under two days, and he knows it.
"This ain't fancy grub," he observed to the room at large, "but it's better than nothin'. You want Simmy to bring in Petey, Hatch?" "Th' cap'n's comin'." Simmy's remark was made in a tone of objection. Hatch swung his head around to eye the smaller man. "You bring Petey in!" he ordered. "Now!" he added. For a second or two it appeared that Simmy might rebel, but Hatch stared him down.
A little later a ballooning cloud of dust came rolling down the road toward him and the toll-bridge that led to Smyrna village. He noted that the core of the cloud was a small boy, running so hard that his knees almost knocked under his chin. He spun to a halt in front of the Cap'n's gate and gasped: "Fi-ah, fi-ah, fi-ah-h-h-h, Chief! Ben Ide's house is a-fi-ah.
Cap'n's ekal ter preachin' on it ef ennything onexpected war ter happen ter Brother Vickers. An' when I hev ter view it, I look at it sorter cross-eyed."
He scowled on the Cap'n's increasing perturbation. "A man is a darned fool to fight a polecat, Cap'n Sproul, and you ought to have known better than to let drive at him as you did." "She didn't call names, did she?" asked the Cap'n. "Call names! Of course she didn't call names. Didn't have to. There's the difference between scandal and occultin'. We can't get no bind on her for what she said.
"I regard your father, my dear, as a deeply learned man, and would give in, if I could, to wotever he says, but facts is facts, and opinions is opinions, you can't change that, nohow you fix it. Wot's the cap'n's opinions, now, as to ghosts?" "He don't believe in 'em at all," was Polly's prompt answer. "No more do I, for father knows everything, and he's always right."
He shook the cow's horn under the Cap'n's nose. "Why ain't you been down and dug it up?" asked Hiram, with cold practicality. "Diggin' old Cap Kidd's treasure ain't like digging a mess of potaters for dinner, Mr. Look. The song says 'Cod Lead Nubble. Old Cap Kidd composed that song, and he put in the wrong place just to throw folks off'm the track.
Toley in charge, came aboard in high humor. "I may be wrong," remarked Bulger, "but judgin' by cap'n's face, he've been an' choused the Pirate got twice the valley o' the goods he's landed." "I wonder where Mr. Diggle is?" said Desmond. "You en't no call to mourn for him, I tell you.
Bangs has set him guessing on that, too. Honestly, Mr. Bangs, you've just about saved well, if you haven't saved everybody's life you've come pretty near to saving the cap'n's reason, I do believe. How Lulie and I can ever thank you enough I don't know." Galusha turned red. "Ah ah don't ah please don't," he stammered. "It was just ah a silly idea of mine.
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