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Especially he spoke of his favorite seaman, French John. John, after a few more years at sea, became a boatman, and kept his neat boat at the end of Granite Wharf, and was ready to take all, but delighted to take any of us of the old Alert's crew, to sail down the harbor. One day Captain Faucon went to the end of the wharf to board a vessel in the stream, and hailed for John.
'When we catch it there'll be a great fight, said Oswald; 'and I shall be Count Folko of Mont Faucon. 'I'll be Gabrielle, said Dora. She is the only one of us who likes doing girl's parts. 'I'll be Sintram, said Alice; 'and H. O. can be the Little Master. 'What about Dicky? 'Oh, I can be the Pilgrim with the bones. 'Hist! whispered Alice.
Little Miss Ducely whispered to Lieutenant Faucon: "Those are American students," she sighed; "how jolly they seem to be, especially Mr Clifford! I wonder if she is so pretty!" Half a dozen riotous Frenchmen in the box opposite jumped to their feet and waved their goblets at Clifford. "A la plus jolie femme du monde!" they roared. Clifford seized another glass and filled it.
I went aft, and there found, seated round the cabin table, my own captain, Captain Faucon of the Pilgrim, and Mr. Robinson, the agent. Captain Thompson turned to me and asked abruptly, ``Dana, do you want to go home in the ship? ``Certainly, sir, said I; ``I expect to go home in the ship. ``Then, said he, ``you must get some one to go in your place on board the Pilgrim.
I believe I omitted to state that Mr. Andrew B. Amerzene, the chief mate of the Pilgrim, an estimable, kind, and trustworthy man, had a difficulty with Captain Faucon, who thought him slack, was turned off duty, and sent home with us in the Alert.
"But how shall I muzzle this Robert Macaire of the bow?" cogitated Hawke, as he anxiously eyed the two windows of Madame Louison's rooms, and then sternly gazed at the open front doors of the Hotel Faucon. A light broke in upon his brain. "There is the golden lure of the Misses Phenie and Genie Forbes, of Chicago, U. S. A. Those madcap girls will be easily gulled. They arrive to-morrow at nine.
"Evidently the Louison dares not face this stony-faced Swiss Medusa. The felites histoires of Francois will fill up my mental notebook." Major Hawke then sat down at ease in the cafe of the Hotel National to indite a dispatch of spartan brevity to "Madame Louison" at the Hotel Faucon, Lausanne. "The Cook's Agency tell me that the London draft will be paid to-morrow.
At length, after the sails were furled and the anchor carried out, her boat pulled ashore, and the news soon flew that the expected ship had arrived at Santa Barbara, and that Captain Thompson had taken command of her, and her captain, Faucon, had taken the Pilgrim, and was the green-jacketed man on the quarter-deck.
After considerable negotiating and working, he succeeded in persuading my English friend, Tom Harris, my companion in the anchor watch for thirty dollars, some clothes, and an intimation from Captain Faucon that he should want a second mate before the voyage was up, to take his place in the brig as soon as she was ready to go up to windward.
Day after day, Captain Faucon went up to the hill to look out for us, and at last, gave us up, thinking we must have gone down in the gale which we experienced off Point Conception, and which had blown with great fury over the whole coast, driving ashore several vessels in the snuggest ports.
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