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"Some one has been playing larks with the grub, sir. I can't go to the wheel, for I can't can't can't can't Here, hold up Neb, lad; don't lurch about like that." "I'm a-going down, matey, I'm a-going down," growled Dumlow, and I saw him sink on the deck.
"They're okkard an' in the way, unless they're the same kind as Miss Denning I mean Mrs Frewen, bless her heart! for it was like havin' of a hangel with us. But I say, Mr Dale, sir," he added with a chuckle; "her brother didn't like the doctor, bein' a bit jealous like; but I says to Neb Dumlow and Barney when they first come aboard, `You see if them two don't make up a match."
There it goes again," I said in a hoarse whisper, as the noise which I had first heard recommenced. "Oh, there's no gammon 'bout that, my lad. That there's Neb Dumlow. If ever you're anywheres and hears a sound like a vessel blowing off her steam under water, all snort and bubble, you may take your oath it's Neb Dumlow. Here, I'll stop that." "Wait a moment, Bob," I said.
Then our principal vulnerable point was the stay beneath the bowsprit, where he stationed Dumlow, armed with a capstan-bar, which the big sailor prepared to use as a club; the other dangerous points being the chains, where it was possible for a man to climb up by means of a boot-hook.
"And the pistol cocked itself, jumped up into his hand, and then went off and wounded Dale. Is it much, doctor?" said Mr Brymer. "No, only his ear cut, fortunately," said Mr Frewen, holding a handkerchief to my head. "An inch more and our amiable, treacherous young friend would have had to be tried for murder. Who's that?" "Me," growled Neb Dumlow. "Want help, sir?" "No.
I gave the speaker, Bob Hampton, a sharp look, and saw that the two men who were generally near him, Barney Blane and Dumlow, were showing all their teeth as they indulged in hard grins; and then I was close upon the cabin-door, but started and stopped short as I heard a cough, and looking up, there was the captain leaning over the rail and watching me.
The captain looks as if he were dying; you are nearly killed; you've nearly killed poor Mr Denning, who came this voyage for the benefit of his health; you have had Miss Denning insulted and exposed to no end of dangers; poor old Neb Dumlow has a shot in him; and we've been treated more like dogs than anything else; while now your beautiful friends have turned upon you, and left you to be burned in the ship they have set on fire, for aught they care.
I got as far as he did, and if I'd moved a bit farder I should ha' stuck." "Yer didn't go as far as I did." "Yes, I did, mate." "How d'yer know?" "'Cause I brought back your knife as lay just where I reached." Neb Dumlow grunted, and Bob drew a series of very long breaths. "Rayther hot in there, sir, and Neb had swallowed up all the fresh air there was." "And precious little too.
"Toe be sure, mate," said Dumlow, "that's what Mr Denning says as he come out of his cabin. `She's dying, he says, and you and me got up and sat down again feeling as silly as two booby birds." "Here, you don't know what you're talking about, messmate," said Bob Hampton. "Yes, he does," I cried excitedly, for a greater light seemed to have now flashed into my brain.
I felt horribly nervous as I thought of the wounds received by Walters and Dumlow, but I drew my breath hard, as I stood up in the boat and tried not to look alarmed, though, as I waited for Mr Brymer's orders to speak, I knew that I must offer the most prominent object for the mutineer's aim.
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