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Disko showed him the meaning of the thumbed and pricked chart, which, he said, laid over any government publication whatsoever; led him, pencil in hand, from berth to berth over the whole string of banks Le Have, Western, Banquereau, St. Pierre, Green, and Grand talking "cod" meantime. Taught him, too, the principle on which the "hog-yoke" was worked.
Harvey could not see how one more fish could be crammed into her, but Disko and Tom Platt stowed and stowed, and planked the mass down with big stones from the ballast, and there was always "jest another day's work." Disko did not tell them when all the salt was wetted. He rolled to the lazarette aft the cabin and began hauling out the big mainsail. This was at ten in the morning.
He everlastin'ly hiked young Olley outer the ocean. Thet's my belief. Jason was tur'ble praoud of his boy, an' I mistrusted all along 'twas a jedgment on worshippin' vain idols." "There's others jes as sot," said Disko. "That's difrunt," Salters retorted quickly. "Penn's not all caulked, an' I ain't only but doin' my duty by him."
"Oh, tell me, which is who?" said she, half sobbing. "I want to thank you and bless you all of you." "Faith, that pays me a hunder time," said Long Jack. Disko introduced them all in due form. The captain of an old-time Chinaman could have done no better, and Mrs. Cheyne babbled incoherently. She nearly threw herself into Manuel's arms when she understood that he had first found Harvey.
So Harvey came back to East Gloucester, and spent half a day explaining to an amused actress with a royal reputation on two seaboards the inwardness of the mistake she contemplated; and she admitted that it was justice, even as Disko had said. Cheyne knew by old experience what would happen; but anything of the nature of a public palaver was meat and drink to the man's soul.
Dan looked at his father with a hurricane of irreverent winks. "There was a tale he told us av drivin' four little ponies in a rig av his own," said Long Jack. "Was that thrue now?" "Very likely," said Cheyne. "Was it, Mama?" "He had a little drag when we were in Toledo, I think," said the mother. Long Jack whistled. "Oh, Disko!" said he, and that was all.
"You read a little less an' take more int'rust in your vittles, and you'll come nearer earnin' your keep, Penn." Harvey, jammed among the fishermen, felt a creepy, crawly, tingling thrill that began in the back of his neck and ended at his boots. He was cold, too, though it was a stifling day. "That the actress from Philadelphia?" said Disko Troop, scowling at the platform.
The sails turned all colours, black, pearly-gray, and white, as the sun mounted; and more boats swung up through the mists to the southward. The dories gathered in clusters, separated, reformed, and broke again, all heading one way; while men hailed and whistled and cat-called and sang, and the water was speckled with rubbish thrown overboard. "It's a town," said Harvey. "Disko was right.
"Mother av Mercy," whispered Long Jack, "an' he's been wid us all these trips! He's clean bewitched." A schooner's bell struck up alongside, and a voice hailed through the fog: "O Disko! 'Heard abaout the Jennie Cushman?" "They have found his son," cried Penn. "Stand you still and see the salvation of the Lord!" "Got Jason aboard here," Disko answered, but his voice quavered.
"A Banker full-blooded Banker," Harvey called back as he boarded a trolley, and Cheyne went on with his blissful dreams for the future. Disko had no use for public functions where appeals were made for charity, but Harvey pleaded that the glory of the day would be lost, so far as he was concerned, if the We're Heres absented themselves. Then Disko made conditions.
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