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She was the only human being younger than himself on board that ship since the Ferndale carried no boys and was manned by a full crew of able seamen. Yes! their youth had created a sort of bond between them. Mr Powell's open countenance must have appeared to her distinctly pleasing amongst the mature, rough, crabbed or even inimical faces she saw around her.
"`I've been expecting you in every moment to fetch away your Articles, Captain. Here they are all ready for you. And turning to a pile of agreements lying at his elbow he took up the topmost of them. From where I stood I could read the words: `Ship Ferndale' written in a large round hand on the first page.
R. B. Gubbins, 'Ferndale Farm, 'Unaville, N.S.W. 'Nov. 3rd, 1879. 'Dear Mr. Gubbins, Thank you for your letter of the 2nd inst. We have looked carefully into the matter of your complaint, and are glad to be able to assure you that your fears are quite unnecessary.
She was the only human being younger than himself on board that ship since the Ferndale carried no boys and was manned by a full crew of able seamen. Yes! their youth had created a sort of bond between them. Mr. Powell's open countenance must have appeared to her distinctly pleasing amongst the mature, rough, crabbed or even inimical faces she saw around her.
The captain ordered him to open all the doors, every blessed door; state-rooms, passages, pantry, fore-cabin and then sent him away. "The Ferndale had magnificent accommodation. At the end of a passage leading from the quarter-deck there was a long saloon, its sumptuosity slightly tarnished perhaps, but having a grand air of roominess and comfort.
"I suppose," he said, the mockery of his eyes giving a pellucid quality to his tone, "that you think it's high time I told you something definite. Franklin the chief mate, and had even disturbed the serene innocence of Mr. Powell, the second of the ship Ferndale, commanded by Roderick Anthony the son of the poet, you know."
And it may as well be told now that when Agnes Sinclair and Tom Scott stopped at the post-office that very evening Tom posted a number of little notes for Agnes an informal tea was to be given at Ferndale. Every single person who got one of these notes knew exactly what it meant the announcement of the engagement of Miss Agnes Sinclair to Thomas Dudley Scott.
I had been waiting for his call primed with a remark which had not occurred to me till after he had gone away. "I say," I tackled him at once, "how can you be certain that Flora de Barral ever went to sea? After all, the wife of the captain of the Ferndale " the lady that mustn't be disturbed "of the old ship-keeper may not have been Flora."
"The Ferndale went down like a stone and Captain Anthony went down with her, the finest man's soul that ever left a sailor's body. I raved like a maniac, like a devil, with a lot of fools crowding round me and asking, "Aren't you the captain?" "I wasn't fit to tie the shoe-strings of the man you have drowned," I screamed at them . . . Well! Well!
But he was full of his recalled experiences on board the Ferndale, and the strangeness of being mixed up in what went on aboard, simply because his name was also the name of a shipping-master, kept him in a state of wonder which made other coincidences, however unlikely, not so very surprising after all.
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