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It was of short duration, for the ship's company of the Yazoo were outnumbered at least two to one. "I suppose we may go on deck now," said Beeks. "I should judge that the fight was over," replied Christy, as he led the way out of the wardroom. At the companion-way they found two sailors assisting Captain Carboneer to his cabin. His face was covered with blood, and he looked very pale.
"No mistake about it, Herrick," said Mr Brooke; and he went on to the after-hatch, which was also open and the lading gone. The next minute we were at the companion-way, and Mr Brooke hailed again, but all was still. Just then the man peering over my shoulder sniffed sharply like some animal. The sound sent a shudder through me, and Mr Brooke turned to the man sharply "Why did you do that?"
Anyhow, I've been married long enough to want my own way, and just now I want a promenade on the moon." "The will of her Ladyship is a law unto her servant, and that which she hath said shall be done! If you come down on to the lower deck in ten minutes everything shall be ready." With this he disappeared down the companion-way.
The companion-way faced the wheel, and there was about as much chance o' getting down there without being seen as there would be o' taking a man's false teeth out of 'is mouth without 'is knowing it.
Sam passed him with a cold face and hurried through the door leading to the companion-way. "Mummie, why is that man wet?" cried the clear voice of a little child. Sam whizzed by, leaping down the stairs. "Good Lord, sir! You're very wet!" said a steward in the doorway of the dining-saloon. "You are wet," said a stewardess in the passage. Sam raced for his state-room.
They then descended to the berth wherein the dead man lay and, assisted by the carpenter and the man who had helped to sew up the body in its canvas shroud, carried the corpse, with some difficulty owing to its weight, and the cramped dimensions of the berth and the companion-way up on deck, where it was laid upon the grating, and a spare ensign spread over it as a pall.
When Bonnet had been left by Blackbeard who, having said all he had to say, hurried up the companion-way to attend to the rest of his plans the stately naval officer who had so recently occupied the bench by the table shrunk into a frightened farmer, gazing blankly at Ben Greenway. "Think you, Ben," he said in half a voice, "that this is one of that man's jokes!
To lessen it, by getting a current of air into the cabin, I smashed in the little skylight over which some ropes were stretched and still held the remnant of a tarpaulin, that must have been set in place while the storm was blowing which sent the ship to her account; and this so far improved matters that presently I was able to go down the companion-way, though the stench still was horridly strong.
A glance at the aneroid, which was fixed in the companion-way, so as to be visible to the helmsman, revealed the fact that the pointer of the instrument had gone considerably back; and this, together with the threatening aspect of the heavens, made me fear that we were about to have a very unpleasant break in the fine weather we had been favoured with since entering the Pacific.
She gathered the mass of stuff in her arms and staggered up the companion-way. I followed, leaving Prudencia raking the trove her short arms would not hold. "Ay, my Chonita!" she wailed, "I cannot carry that big piece of pink satin and that vase. And I have only two pairs of slippers and one fan. Ay, Cho-n-i-i-ta, look at those shawls! Mother of God, suppose Valencia Menendez comes "
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