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The position of his company was nearer to the entrance than that of Deck's command; but Life had spotted him, and rushed upon him. In spite of his shouting, there was little vim in the movement of the captain.
Mahon began to stamp with both feet and yelled at him, 'Good God! don't you see the deck's blown out of her? I found my voice, and stammered out as if conscious of some gross neglect of duty, 'I don't know where the cabin-table is. It was like an absurd dream. "Do you know what he wanted next? Well, he wanted to trim the yards.
The exception to the cash rule was in favor of the Company's employes. It was on Deck's initiative that an arrangement was made with Mr. Burk by which the Company men received credit at the store, the amount of their bills being deducted from their wages each month by the Company paymaster.
A company or platoon of Confederate cavalry had forced its way into the crowd nearly to the ground occupied by Deck's force, though they had used their sabres to accomplish it. Life had pushed his horse forward in the direction he wished to go; but the mob seized the animal's bridle to save themselves, and, by stress of numbers, had crowded him back.
An empty wagon was driven up to the store and the General Manager recognized in the driver one of the Company's men from a grading camp six miles away; while another wagon a Company wagon also nearly filled with supplies moved away toward the open desert. Deck's business was assuming quite respectable proportions thought Mr. Burk. And Deck's business was mostly with employes of the Company.
Without their services the scouts would have been in a bad situation, for Deck's wounded arm rendered him unfit to row against the current of the great river. He had learned the dangerous places, and under his direction the ferry was reached in safety. "Whar you done been to, Mars'rs?" asked Cuffy as they landed. "We ask questions, but don't answer them," replied Deck.
'I suppose the deck's not leaking? I said, as mildly as I could. 'I'm awfully sorry, said Davies, earnestly, tumbling out of his bunk. 'It must be the heavy dew. I did a lot of caulking yesterday, but I suppose I missed that place. I'll run up and square it with an oilskin. 'What's wrong with your hand? I asked, sleepily, on his return, for gratitude reminded me of that bandage.
"Who ever said you could, Davy Jimpny?" cried Billy. "But you wants charkle to make it with, don't yer?" "Yes, if you can't get coke," said the stowaway sadly. "Well, I aren't seen no gasworks on those here shores nowheres, and so you can't get no coke, can you?" "Course not." "Well, then, charkle it is. The whole deck's charkle, and so's the bulwarks, and the chunk end o' the bowsprit?"
It was a hill which had possibly turned the river aside from its westerly course to the south at some remote period in the past. There was just such a bluff on the other side of the tongue of land, and possibly a hill there had again changed the river's course to the westward. But Deck's theory explained the presence of the fortunate flat where they had landed.
His steamer-chair being placed in a prominent position next to that of a pretty, effusive Southern woman, the mother of three daughters whose eyes and eyelashes attracted attention at the distance of a deck's length, he was without undue delay provided with acquaintances who were prepared to fill his every moment with entertainment.
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