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"Come, mister," he said with a grin, evidently divining my thoughts, "out with it, come; you want them chesties smuggled off on the quiet, don't you now? Best take 'Badiah P. Perks into confidence, I guess; makes it smooth for all parties." "If you like to take our party and luggage to New York, Mr Perks," I said quietly, "I am ready, as my uncle will be ready, to pay you well for the passage.
"Well, what's a few months' pay to men who've got their sea chesties chock full o' gold?" "That's true enough, messmate, but s'pose they turns nasty and picks up their guns. They're wunners to shoot." "They dursen't," said Jem scornfully. "It would be murder. Finding gold like this upsets everything else.
"I don't want to hurt you, so just you either get out o' the way or fetch your boss." "If you don't get out," said Tom slowly, "I shall have to make you. Mas'r Harry don't want no trade with you at all, so s'pose you be off while your shoes are good." "I will be off," said the skipper with a snarl, "and bring them here as will open some of your eyes a bit, and them chesties too."
"You look sharp, and we'll pull him and the doctor through, see if we don't. I don't think no bones is broke. Them chesties sheltered 'em." Then I felt water being trickled into my mouth and some poured over my forehead, while, though I could neither move nor speak, I heard Jarette's voice giving orders apparently ever so far away.
Wal, I won't say I'll take you, stranger, till I've brought one o' these here yellow nigger officers to look over them chesties, and see if there's anything in 'em as is contraband." I could not help changing colour, and the fellow saw it.
"Chesties and casks, my lad, and we're a-lying on 'em leastwise I am. What are we two a-lying on chesties and casks for?" "I don't know, Bob. But who's that snoring so?" "Where?" "Somebody was snoring just now, but it stopped when you spoke." "Then I s'pose it must ha' been me, my lad. I have heard say as I could play a pretty good toon on my nose when I was very fast asleep." "No.
"Then just you go and tell him that Kyaptin 'Badiah P. Perks is here with a gentleman who'll overhaul that stack o' chesties, and say whether I can take 'em board o' my schooner without getting into trouble." "Oh! Mas'r Harry won't get you into no trouble, cap'en," said Tom, "nor he won't give you no trouble. He's altered his mind and won't go." "Oh, no, he haven't," said the skipper.
Sometimes in hot weather it is kept going day and night, indeed without it at times we should scarcely have been able to bear the heat, or go to sleep at night. The tatties are mats made of a sweet-smelling grass, which are hung up on the side from which the hot wind comes, and being kept constantly wet by the chesties, the air passing through them is cooled by the evaporation which takes place."
Beale came, and the first thing she did was to buy a leg of mutton and cook it. It was the first meat we had had since arriving at Lymchurch. "I 'spect she can't afford good butcher's meat," said Mrs. Beale; "but your pa, I expect he pays for you, and I lay he'd like you to have your fill of something as'll lay acrost your chesties." So she made a Yorkshire pudding as well. It was good.
"Did you, though, mister? Find him?" "Yes, I found him right enough." "Did you, though? Old man all right?" "Quite right." "Didn't stop with him, though?" "No, we are all going home together." "Wonder at it when you might stay in A-murray-kay. I say, mister, you know, what's in them chesties?" He accompanied the question with a wink and a grin, and pointed over his shoulder towards the cases.
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