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"I don't know anything about it," replied Bell. "Richard Shandon will receive the rest of his instructions in due time." "But from whom?" "From whom?" "Yes, how?" asked Bolton, becoming pressing. "Now then, answer, Bell!" chimed in all the other sailors. "By whom? how? Why, I don't know," said the carpenter, embarrassed in his turn. "Why, by the dog-captain," exclaimed Clifton.
"What the devil do you mean?" asked Gripper. "I know very well what I mean." "But we don't." "Well, Pen has quarrelled with him before." "With the captain?" "Yes, the dog-captain it's all one." The sailors looked at one another, afraid to say anything. "Man or dog," muttered Pen, "I declare that that animal will have his account one of these days."
The sailors continued silently watching the Forward, whose preparations for departure were drawing to an end; there was not one of them who pretended that Johnson had only been laughing at the young sailor. The history of the dog had already made the round of the town, and amongst the crowd of spectators many a one looked out for the dog-captain and believed him to be a supernatural animal.
Clifton had heard enough to give himself up to all the wanderings of his superstitious imagination; he attributed a considerable share in this incident to the dog-captain, and when by chance he met him in his passage he never failed to salute him. "I told you the animal could write," he used to say to the sailors.
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