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After a time I came on deck, and found topsails and royals set and Mr. Cledd in command. "All goes well, Mr. Lathrop," he said with a smile, "but that darky cook seems not to believe it. He's prowling about like an old owl." "Which is he?" I asked; for several of the men were pacing the deck and at the moment I could not distinguish between them. "They do seem to be astir.
There, of course, was where the money had fallen. He worked hard and failed." Then I remembered the hatch that had been pried off when the natives were ranging over the boat. Early next morning Roger, Mr. Cledd, and I, placing the money between us in the boat and arming ourselves and our men, each with a brace of pistols, went ashore.
Cledd, formerly mate of the brig Essay, which had been wrecked a few weeks before in a typhoon off Hainan. He was a pleasant fellow of about Roger's age, and had a frank manner that we all liked.
We've not seen the last of Kipping." Roger got up, and walking over to the chest of ammunition, thoughtfully regarded it. "No, sir!" Mr. Cledd reiterated, "if Kipping's Kipping, we've not seen the last of him."
"I have business that will take considerable time, and I think that Mr. Lathrop had better come too, and bring his books." As we left the ship we saw Mr. Cledd observing closely all that went forward, and Roger gravely nodded when I remarked that our new mate knew his business.
"Well, Chips," said Roger, "I hope you, at least, are pleased with your prospects." The carpenter likewise made no reply. "Hm, Mr. Cledd, they haven't a great deal to say, have they?" "Aha," the negro murmured just behind me, "dey's got fine prospec's, dey has.
On the one hand were the Zutphen Islands; on the other was Hog Point; and almost abeam of us the Sumatran coast rose to the steep bluff that across some miles of sea faces the Java shore. We lay in Sunda Strait. I came on deck after a while and saw the men stirring about. "They're uneasy," said Mr. Cledd. "I'm not surprised," I replied.
If any man wishes to see us there " He finished the sentence with another smile. Mr. Cledd spoke up sharply. "Ay, and if a certain man we all know of should appear, I'm thinking he'd be unpleasantly surprised to find me aboard." Mr. Johnston rubbed his hands and tapped the table and rubbed his hands again.
You ought to call out if you see a sail, but it's just as well you didn't this time." Mr. Cledd turned his back on Blodgett after looking hard up the wind. "If you please, sir, I've got good eyes." Blodgett's manner was such that no one could be seriously offended by his persistence. "My eyes are good, too," Mr. Cledd replied rather sharply. "I see no sail." Nor did I.
He went briskly over the side, settled himself in the stern-sheets of his boat, and gave us on the quarter-deck a wave of his hand; then his men rowed him smartly away down-stream. "Ay, it is shameful," Roger repeated. He soberly watched the other disappear among the shipping, then he turned to Mr. Cledd. "I shall go ashore for the day," he said.
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