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Captain Foley, thrusting his way through the press, rushed up to him with a revolver in his hand. "This is your doing, you villain!" he cried. "If you raise your pistol, Captin, your brains will be over your coat," said a low voice at his side. He saw that several rifles were turned on him. The two subs. had pressed forward, and were by his side.
Come! I want you to assist me a little, old fellow. No humbug between us. 'Oh! groaned Mr. Levison, 'you could not come at a worse time; I don't know what money is. 'Of course. However, the fact is, money I must have; and so, old fellow, we are old friends, and you must get it. 'What do you want, Captin? slowly spoke Mr. Levison, with an expression of misery. 'Oh!
"Me an' the Captin was crowdin' so close upon the Archdeacon's heels that in his terror lest we should pass him by he ups an' sets the pace at such a tremendous speed that the whole three of us actually catches up to the bear . . . without the brute's knowin' it.
Sam laughed the sort of laugh a pal 'ad once give him a black eye for. "Twenty pounds!" he ses; "twenty pounds! 'Ave you gorn out of your mind, or wot? I'll give you a couple of quid for it." "Well, it's all right, captin," ses the man, "there's no 'arm done. I'll try somebody else or p'r'aps there'll be a big reward for it. I don't believe it was bought for a 'undred pounds."
"And yit, Captin, it sames to me," observed Lieutenant Murphy, in allusion to the remark of Blessington rather than in reply to the last speaker, "it sames to me, I say, that promotion in ony way is all fair and honourable in times of hardship like thase; and though we may drop a tare over our suparior when the luck of war, in the shape of a tommyhawk, knocks him over, still there can be no rason why we shouldn't stip into his shoes the viry nixt instant; and it's that, we all know, that we fight for.
I thought yeou'd be speakin' o' that. I'm forty year old and she's abeout eighteen, or so. Consid'able difference in eour ages. I told her abeout that t'other day, and she sed, well she didn't see but I 'peared abeout as young as she did. She didn't see much difference. So ef she's sahtisfied, I'd oughter be. But Captin, I'll tell ye, she's a curus leetle critter as ever ye see.
S'pose Captin', we jest make a surkit reound through the rest of these hills, maybe we'll light on 'em agin". "Agreed", responded John. They skirted the enclosure, but without a chance for another shot.
"He he pestered me with his attentions. Oh, I should have liked to flog him with a whip!" "He was always that sort of person too serious," and the head dropped again. The steward returned. He was a half-caste; his English was to the point. "De captin say he busy, he no come," was his message. Elsie's display of irritation vanished in a merry laugh.
"Give it first to the captin, misthress," said Chane, pointing to me; "sarve all ayqually, but respict rank." The woman understood the sign, and handed me the jar. I drank copiously, passing it to my comrades, Clayley and Raoul. Chane at length took the jar; but instead of drinking immediately, as might have been expected, he set it between his knees and looked quizzically up at the woman.
Ginger Dick and Peter both said that they liked it better than anything else, and, arter she 'ad got out the cups and saucers and a tin o' cocoa, Ginger held the kettle and poured the water in the cups while she stirred them, and old Sam sat looking on 'elpless. "It does seem funny to see you drinking cocoa, captin," ses Ginger, as old Sam took his cup.
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