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Updated: May 20, 2025
'Who has been getting at you? What scared you? You haven't as much sense as a rat; they don't clear out from a good ship. Where do you expect to get a better berth? you this and you that. I made him look sick, I can tell you. 'This business ain't going to sink, says I. He gave a big jump. 'Good-bye, he says, nodding at me like a lord; 'you ain't half a bad chap, Egstrom.
Can't get a man like that every day, you know, sir; a regular devil for sailing a boat; ready to go out miles to sea to meet ships in any sort of weather. More than once a captain would come in here full of it, and the first thing he would say would be, 'That's a reckless sort of a lunatic you've got for water-clerk, Egstrom.
"I preferred to go," he said slowly; "this thing must be buried." 'We could hear in the shop Blake upbraiding Egstrom in an abusive, strained voice.
Such a quiet, soft-spoken chap too blush like a girl when he came on board. . . . I tell you, Captain Marlow, nobody had a chance against us with a strange ship when Jim was out. The other ship-chandlers just kept their old customers, and . . ." 'Egstrom appeared overcome with emotion.
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