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The sea was still running high, but there was no sound of water breaking over the bulwarks. He emerged from his deck-cabin, and took a sniff of the morning air. A reef had been shaken out of the trysails, and the fore-topsail and jib were set. He went aft, and found the mate just heaving the patent log.
"That's right," exclaimed the captain; rising and in doing so he seemed about to damage the ceiling "let's go below, by all means, and see the cabin." "It is not down-stairs," remarked Jessie, leading the way; "we are at the top of the house here, and the room is on a level with this one." "So much the better. I like a deck-cabin. In fact I've bin used to it aboard my last ship."
No signs of troubled times were to be seen in the floating home of the wanderers. The steward had provided for everything. There were rooms and beds to spare in the vessel; the large deck-cabin was a comfortable sitting-room, and from the little galley at the prow came a savory smell of cooking and a cheerful clang of pots and pans.
When the boat arrived at Natches, a rather good-looking, genteel-appearing man came on board to purchase a servant. This individual introduced himself to Jennings as the Rev. James Wilson. The slave-trader conducted the preacher to the deck-cabin, where he kept his slaves, and the man of God, after having some questions answered, selected Agnes as the one best suited to his service.
Dicky, things must be pulled our way, or we go to deep damnation." Dicky turned a little pale, for there was high nervous excitement in Fielding's words; and for a moment he found it hard to speak. He was about to say something, however, when Fielding continued. "Norman there," he pointed to the deck-cabin, "Norman's the same. He says it's do or die; and he looks it.
Turning with morbid interest to look after the retreating millionaire, he found him in converse with a feminine figure at the open door of a deck-cabin. Could this be the great She, the arbitress of art? He moved nearer.
Dicky, things must be pulled our way, or we go to deep damnation." Dicky turned a little pale, for there was high nervous excitement in Fielding's words; and for a moment he found it hard to speak. He was about to say something, however, when Fielding continued. "Norman there," he pointed to the deck-cabin, "Norman's the same. He says it's do or die; and he looks it.
It was in this character that he apprehended it again to-day, waiting in his deck-cabin until cessation of the rain and on-coming of the friendly dusk should render it not wholly odious to sit out on deck. The hours lagged, and even this bright and usually spotless apartment with its shining, white walls, its dark, blue leather and polished, mahogany fittings the coal dust penetrated.
I saw the Duke bring up her rugs and things." His heavy moustache seemed to uncurl itself nervously, and his jaw dropped slowly, as he watched Claudius leave the deck-cabin. "I wonder when they got a chance," he said to himself. But Barker was not nearly so much astonished as the Duke. The latter was sitting by Margaret's side, near the wheel, making conversation.
Flannagan saw the tent, platform, and benches put up, and in the early evening he went inland to the village and didn't come back for some hours. It was a moonlight night, and the show people were still getting ready for the next day. I was at the deck-cabin window, smoking an evening pipe, looking at the tent that stood on the sandy piece of land beyond the pier.
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