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Grandfather had gone then poor grandfather! and I had knitted you a little soft cap of white wool, with a tassel and a pink bow. Your mother's father was living still Capt'n Billy, as they called him and when I put the cap on your little head, he cried out, 'A sailor every inch of him! And sure enough, though I had never thought it, a sailor's cap it was.
"You'll have to be our skipper now, sir, for poor Capt'n Mason and all three of the mates is gone one on 'em Mr King killed in the scrimmage, and t'others made to walk the plank so you'll be the only navigator that we can muster among the lot of us, as well as the 'riginator of this here scheme for gettin' the better of these here Spaniards, so' you're the fittest and properest person to take charge.
Close in shore a little boat glided into view, beating up against stream. In the stern, the sheet in one hand and the tiller in the other, sat Balder's old friend Charon. He nodded up at the young man with a recognizing grin. Then he laid his tiller-hand aside his brown cheek and sang out, "Look out there, Capt'n! Davy Jones's got back, run foul of you!"
The sun had set, and we were seated at supper the pleasantest meal of the day in that hot climate. My cousins had somewhat recovered their spirits, and Rochford was doing his utmost to make himself agreeable, when Tim walked into the room, rifle in hand, with his usual military air, and making a salute, said "Capt'n, if ye please, step up to the gallery on the west side an' take a look-out.
An' I've bin on her since she wus commissioned as a pleasure yacht, sir. Capt'n." "Ah!" "Fought under th' commodore in th' war, sir; an' he knows me, an' I knows him; an' when Flanagan is on th' bridge, he doesn't signal no pilots between Key West an' St. Johns." "I am visiting the admiral," said Fitzgerald, amused. "Oh!" Captain Flanagan ducked, with his hand to his cap.
"I'm sorry for ye, Capt'n, but after what you told me, I'm afraid it's the only berth I can shove you into. However, don't let me frighten ye. Take care of yourself, don't do too much work, and you may pull through all right. Here's the order for the passage down Coast by the Liverpool boat. And now I must ask you to excuse me. I've another client waiting."
"You may just as well be pleasant over it," said Mrs. Tipping, severely; "because we sha'n't go away until we have seen him. After all, it's got nothing to do with you." "We don't want anything to say to you," affirmed her daughter. "Will you get out of my house?" demanded the owner, wildly. "When we've seen Capt'n Flower," said Mrs. Tipping, calmly, "and not a moment before.
"A quarter six," he sang out, and then, plaintively: "We'll fetch up on the Barrier, capt'n. S'pose we try an' get the other hook over." "Yes, yes," chorused some of the braver spirits. "It may hold. We don't want to drown on the reef. Let's get it over. Chain's overhauled." "Let the anchor alone," roared the captain. "No anchor-chain'll hold in this.
I jess wanted to get you to drop the other anchor and hold her off the reef." "Got him tight, cappen?" asked the mate. "Shall I help you hold 'im?" "I've got my sight back. I've got Tom Plate under my gun. How long have you been flying signals of distress, Tom Plate?" "Ever since I could see, capt'n," answered the trembling sailor. "How long is that?" "Second day out, sir."
"You let the capt'n do what he says," the woman urged. Rosemary Roselle's eyes turned toward Elim; it was, seemingly, the first time she had become aware of his presence. She said in a voice delicately colored by hate: "Thank you, I couldn't think of taking the the orderly from his conquests." "Then I'll find your father myself," Elim replied.
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