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Three turns of the wheel left him richer by twenty pounds, and he went down to the shipping to make friends with the captain of a decayed cargo-steamer, who landed him in London with fewer pounds in his pocket than he cared to think about. A thin gray fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.
She was a big, high-class cargo-steamer of a type that is to be met on the sea no more, black hull, with low, white super structures, powerfully rigged with three masts and a lot of yards on the fore; two hands at her enormous wheel steam steering-gear was not a matter of course in these days and with them on the bridge three others, bulky in thick blue jackets, ruddy-faced, muffled up, with peaked caps I suppose all her officers.
It was her first voyage, and though she was but a cargo-steamer of twenty-five hundred tons, she was the very best of her kind, the outcome of forty years of experiments and improvements in framework and machinery; and her designers and owner thought as much of her as though she had been the Lucania.
She was a big, high-class cargo-steamer of a type that is to be met on the sea no more black hull, with low, white superstructures, powerfully rigged with three masts and a lot of yards on the fore; two hands at her enormous wheel steam steering-gear was not a matter of course in these days and with them on the bridge three others, bulky in thick blue jackets, ruddy-faced, muffled up, with peak caps I suppose all her officers.
It was her first voyage, and though she was but a cargo-steamer of twenty-five hundred tons, she was the very best of her kind, the outcome of forty years of experiments and improvements in framework and machinery; and her designers and owner thought as much of her as though she had been the Lucania.
Further, no one would think of seeking a deserter in a first-class carriage. At Karachi, he was to buy white clothes and ship, if he could, on a cargo-steamer. Here he broke in. If I helped him to Karachi, he would arrange all the rest. Then I ordered him to wait where he was until it was dark enough for me to ride into the station without my dress being noticed.
But the next thing I knew, she was married to a brute called Green skipper of a filthy little cargo-steamer, who had been after her for some time. She went with him on one or two short voyages. Heaven knows what she endured in that time. Then the baby was born Dick. They called him a seven-months child. But I knew I guessed at once. One day I met her told her so.
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