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"It would kill the lad to bring him up, and as he is my patient, I have told him to stay below." "Am I to be thwarted and insulted on board my own ship?" cried the captain. "Whether he is ill or well, up he comes." And going down to the half-deck, he asked Esdale why he had not obeyed his orders. Esdale, of course, had not received them, and said so, beginning at the same time to dress.
"You must not," said Esdale, "expect a woman who has commanded soldiers, and may again, to dress and look entirely like an ordinary person. But I assure you, that even at this time of day, if she wished to marry, she might easily find a respectable match." "Why, I heard that she had betrayed her husband's fort to Hyder." "Ay, that is a specimen of Madras gossip.
After all, by placing yourself in an attitude of endeavouring to save her, it is a hundred to one that you only ensure your own destruction." Hartley shook his head, and bade Esdale hastily farewell; leaving him in the happy and self-applauding state of mind proper to one who has given the best advice possible to a friend, and may conscientiously wash his hands of all consequences.
Medlicott was perfectly delighted, and said she could not do a better work; and it is such fun! We don't have them unmitigated, we get other people to enliven them. The Actons are coming, and I hope Mr. Esdale is coming to-night to show us his photographs of the lost cities in Central America. You'll stay, won't you?" "If Mrs. Brownlow will let me.
'Thou's been out again wandering on that sea-shore! said he. She did not answer him. 'I cannot think what's always taking thee there, when one would ha' thought a walk up to Esdale would be far more sheltered, both for thee and baby in such weather as this. Thou'll be having that baby ill some of these days.
"There was no denying that Harry Esdale was the handsomest, gayest and most popular man in the station, and was generally to be found taking the lead in any thing that promised fun and frolic. In fact, no ball, party, picnic, cricket-match, race or private theatricals were considered complete without him.
Still I longed as much as ever to get back to England. Jim and I made it out pretty well with the two apprentices. Horner was inclined to look down upon Jim for his want of education. Esdale treated us both alike with gentleness and consideration, and offered to teach Jim to read and write if he wished to learn. It had never occurred to me to try and do so.
No one interfered with Esdale, who had, I found, crossed Neptune's hand with a crown-piece; which, of course, none of us were able to do. A huge tub of water had been placed in front of his majesty. The barber now came forward and insisted on shaving all those who were for the first time crossing the line. Three of the ordinary seamen were novices like us.
I immediately dived below to persuade Tom to let Esdale remain in his bunk. "It will be his death if he is exposed to this weather," I said. "I am not the fellow to kill a shipmate if I can help it," answered Tom. "Tell him to stay and I'll take the consequences." When Tom returned on deck, the captain enquired in a fierce voice why he had not carried out his orders.
We were both glad enough to turn in. I observed that Esdale, before he did so, knelt down and said his prayers. It was Horner's watch on deck, so that he was not present. I slept right through the night, and was surprised to find when I opened my eyes that it was daylight. Jim and I at once turned out and went on deck. There was the land, broad on the starboard bow, still at some distance.
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