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"Wot about me wakin' up all of a tremble aboard o' the old Nancy Lee aboard of a blasted wind-jammer! Me a fireman! Wot about it? Wasn't that Shanghaiin'? Blighter! An' not a 'oat' in me pocket not a 'bean'! Broke to the wide an' aboard of a old wind-jammer wot was a coffin-ship a coffin-ship she was; an' 'er old man was the devil's father-in-law. Ho! lies! I don't think!"
His father and mother died in the black '47, and the little girl he had set his heart on sailed in a coffin-ship for New York with her father and mother in the same bitter year, and went down somewhere out on the unkindly ocean.
On the following morning he insisted upon getting up, and was helped afterward by a steward to the bridge. Maclean greeted him with a genial smile. "Well done, sir," he cried heartily. "Glad to see you up again and looking so fit. The old Saigon has been as dull as a coffin-ship without you." Captain Brandon nodded, frowned, and glanced around him.
Atherton returned his look with a slightly embarrassed smile. "It hasn't been so blamed funny after all," he said quietly. "A Chinese coffin-ship from 'Frisco would be hilarious compared with this trip," rapped a sarcastic voice from behind the silk handkerchief.
I don't mind admitting that when I stood on the doorstep of this house fifteen nights ago and knocked the mystic knock, I felt like a man embarking on a coffin-ship." He stopped to drain his glass. The Prophet took a step forward. "And then?" he said, eagerly. "Then?" The other waved his empty glass. "Oh, there entered the native genius of Terence Dominick Devereaux!
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