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Thus, one of the dusky sailors hailed from Easter Island, a second from the Carolines, a third from the Paumotus, while the fourth was a gigantic Samoan. At sea, Boyd Duncan, himself a navigator, stood a mate's watch with Captain Dettmar, and both of them took a wheel or lookout occasionally.
We'll have many more of them, too. And do you know what I've been thinking? What a confounded shame we're done out of our Christmas dinner. Wait till I lay hands on Dettmar. I'll take it out of him. And it won't be with an iron belaying pin either, Just two bunches of naked knuckles, that's all." Despite his facetiousness, Boyd Duncan had little hope.
"I can't retain a captain who calls me a liar." Captain Dettmar for the moment was taken aback. His face and lips worked, but he could say nothing. Duncan coolly pulled at his cigar and glanced aft at the rising cloud of squall. "Lee Goom brought the mail aboard at Tahiti," Captain Dettmar began. "We were hove short then and leaving.
Do you want the details?" Duncan looked at him in the curious way one looks at any monstrosity, but made no reply. "Oh, I'm not afraid to tell you," Captain Dettmar blustered on. "There are no witnesses. Besides, I am a free man now. I am pardoned, and by God they can never put me back in that hole again. I broke McSweeny's jaw with the first blow. He was lying on his back asleep.
He said, 'My God, Jim! My God! It was funny to see his broken jaw wabble as he said it. Then I smashed him... I say, do you want the rest of the details?" "Is that all you have to say?" was the answer. "Isn't it enough?" Captain Dettmar retorted. "It is enough." "What are you going to do about it?" "Put you ashore at Attu-Attu." "And in the meantime?" "In the meantime..." Duncan paused.
She held it to the light of a port-hole, and the liquor showed a quarter of the distance from the bottom. "I've been saving it for weeks," she explained. "And there's enough for you and Captain Dettmar." "Two mighty small drinks," Duncan complained. "There would have been more, but I gave a drink to Lorenzo when he was sick." Duncan growled, "Might have given him rum," facetiously.
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