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Mark smiled and felt brightened directly as a low murmured chorus of sound arose from the blacks, the men showing their teeth and the women smiling at him. He stopped by the forecastle hatch, and listened, but there was not a sound to be heard, and feeling startled, in spite of Tom Fillot's words, he cautiously approached the ventilator, and listened there.
These thoughts passed as the ray of light was shifted by Tom Fillot's manipulation of the lantern, which shone directly after upon the clean white planks, with their black, well-caulked seams.
For his first utterance had been when his teeth were set fast in Dick Bannock's trousers and leg, the second when he had quitted his hold. With four in the cabin to haul, and Tom Fillot's activity to help, it was not long before he was up and in at the window, getting the noose of the line off his arm. "Hold on, Dick," cried Mark, leaning out as far as he could. "Can't, sir," came like a groan.
"Keep below there, dew yew hear?" came in an unmistakable voice. "You might as well mind your own business," growled Tom Fillot. "D'yer hear? Keep below." The door cracked again with Tom Fillot's efforts, and the next moment there was a sharp report, and a bullet crashed through.
Flushing up with anger, the midshipman took his heavy glass from under his arm to tap both blacks on the head: but second thoughts stayed his hand, and he glanced forward to see Tom Fillot's figure dimly as he leaned over the bulwark staring away ahead. "They ought to be punished," he thought; "but, poor fellows, they're tired out. I will not be hard on them."
The complimentary title did no good, for Mark turned sharply away. "See that some biscuit and water are lowered down to these people, Fillot," he cried. "Ay, ay, sir." "Biscuit water?" roared the American skipper, his voice coming up through the ventilator with a yell. "Yew don't mean to say " He stopped short to listen to Tom Fillot's next words. "Shall we open the hatch, sir?"
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