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Willie Carr was on board the Croonah, evidently quite at home, and bound for India, for he was seated at the Indian table. It was not necessary for Luke to make inquiries about this passenger, because his brother officers soon began to speak of him. By some means Carr made himself popular among the officers, and gradually began to enjoy privileges denied to his fellow passengers.
Had he been beside the captain and the other officers the native crew would have worked quietly and intrepidly; there would have been time for all hands to leave the Croonah before she slipped back into deep water. The great steamer rolled slowly from side to side, like a helpless dumb animal in death agony, but she never righted herself, her decks were never level.
He stepped forward and raised Eve's fingers to his lips. A quaint, half-Spanish grace marked the picture of Southern chivalry. "My child," said Lloseta, "may Heaven always bless you!" And he left them. What have we made each other? The cathedral bells were calling good Papists to their morning devotion as the Croonah moved into Valetta harbour.
She made Agatha what she was, and Agatha made Luke throw away the Croonah." "But the Court decided that it was an unusual current," said Eve, who had followed every word of the official inquiry. Fitz shrugged his shoulders. "He threw the ship away," he said. "Sailors like Luke do not get wrecked on the Burlings." Eve did not pursue the subject, for this was the shadow on her happiness.
All around them the wind moaned and shrieked through the rigging; the waves, beating against the sheer side of the doomed Croonah, filled the air with a sound of great foreboding the deep voice of an elemental power that knows no mercy.
He was watching the two boats making their way through the choppy sea towards them, and Agatha was watching his face. The Croonah was now lying right over on her beam ends. Luke was standing on the wire network of the rail. Suddenly he threw himself backwards, and as they fell through space Agatha heard the captain's voice quite distinctly, as from the silence of another world.
Luke FitzHenry went to sea again on the day appointed for the Croonah to leave London, without so much as a snarl at Fate. It was a great wrench to him to leave Agatha again so soon, in the first full force of his passion. But he left her almost happily. His love for her was rising up and filling his whole existence.
Ingham-Baker reflected for a moment. "We might go in the Croonah with Luke," she then observed timidly. "Ye-es." And after a little while Mrs. Ingham-Baker rose and bade her daughter good-night. Agatha remained before the fire in the low chair with her face resting on her two hands, and who can tell all that she was thinking? For the thoughts of youth are very quick.
Agatha was reading the Globe, sitting upright and stiff, for she was wearing a new ball-dress. "I think," went on Mrs. Ingham-Baker volubly, "that I have never seen a naval uniform before in a room close at hand, you know. Of course, on board the Croonah the officers wore a sort of uniform, but they had not a sword." Agatha turned over her newspaper impatiently. Mrs.
Luke FitzHenry was not inclined to sociability the stronger sort of man rarely is. On board the Croonah he was usually considered morose and self absorbed. He did his duty, and in this was second to no man on board; but he was content to get the passengers to their destination, looking upon the Croonah as a mere conveyance for a certain number of chattering, gossiping, mischief-making live- stock.
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