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Updated: April 30, 2025
I hardly knew what I was doing, I was so crazy with sickness and bruises and incessant toil. 'Mr. Croasan, I shouted at him. 'Eh! says he, without opening his eyes.
To my mind she didn't seem the sort of woman who would understand the things I'd been writing about; old Croasan and the Chief with the glass eye, the firemen and all the rest of them. However, I said I'd let her have it if she liked. Gladys looked at me when I came out as an author. She'd never had any opinion of me, you see.
The old woman came round the piano and saw him. Croasan started up and I hit him again, and he fell over the Belgian. "At first I thought I was in for a big row. But Croasan had more experience than I had. He'd been in rows before. When he started up it was not to hit me, but to get out. He crawled under the table between the Belgian's legs and ran to the door.
She turned red because she thought I was mocking her, and then, I suppose, with pleasure. That was the beginning of our courtship. "Of course, in one sense, it was an unusual courtship. It happened to come about by a number of accidents. If I hadn't hit old Croasan she would never have looked at me, for I'm not a very conspicuous figure at any time.
I daresay he would have practised his English on me till daybreak if I hadn't run away. I went down and found things all quiet, and then I came up and roused old Croasan. He was lying on the settee and the gin-bottle stood on the chest-of-drawers, empty. He raised himself on his elbow and looked at me gloomily.
With my head against the reversing engine wheel I could feel the slow vibration of the anchor coming up, and hear the sough of the exhaust coming back from the windlass. The Second and old Croasan stood near by, their faces blank with waiting and fatigue, like the faces of dead men.
A young Genoese will not look at a girl who lives in those houses along the Front. He thinks they are all rotten bad. As for the foreigners she met in the 'Isle o' Man, I needn't tell you what an average Englishman thinks of foreign women. "I told the Chief about it next day, and he looked up sharp from his plate when I mentioned Croasan. He said hard things of Croasan. 'Think of that? says he.
That was the real reason why I jumped up and went over to Croasan. "He looked up at me as I stood over the table. I could see the crease in his cheeks, the sag under his eyes, and the grey roots of his dyed moustache. He looked up at me as I raised my hand. 'Let her go, I said, shouting at him above the jangle of the piano, 'let her go, Mr. Croasan. He was holding her down on his knee.
I wouldn't have given him more than a passing glance if he hadn't looked me in the eye. 'Eh, lad, says he. 'Will ye have a drink? 'Croasan? I said. 'Ah, it's me, says he. 'Ah'm away the morn in yon big turret. "I was that astonished I couldn't reply, and he drank up his beer and went out with a wave of the hand. Miss Bevan asked me if I knew him.
It was his watch on the main engines, you see, twelve to four. Our berth was flooded. There was a couple of inches of water on the floor, and at every sea the water flew through the leaky joints of the dead-lights, all over old Croasan. To and fro on the floor my slippers were floating and a torn magazine swam into the room from the alleyway as I opened the door.
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