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At the hotel Emerson found Clyde and Fraser in Balt's room awaiting him. They were noisy and excited at the success of the enterprise and at the prospect of immediate action. Quoth "Fingerless" Fraser: "It has certainly lifted a load off my mind to put this deal through." Emerson was forced to smile. "Now that you have succeeded," said he, "what next?" "Back to the Coast. This town is a bum."
The tongue, which is usually described as the organ of taste, is really a sort of fingerless hand grown up from the floor of the mouth to help suck in or lap up water or milk, push the food in between the teeth for chewing, and, when it has been chewed, roll it into a ball and push it backward down the throat.
The second mate on the bridge was beating his fingerless woollen gloves against his ribs as a cure for cold fingers. The first mate and the third had already turned out, and were on the boatskids helping the carpenter with the housings, and overhauling davit falls. On that part of the horizon against which the Flamingo's bows sawed with great sweeping dives was a streaky, flickering yellow glow.
"Fingerless" Fraser, noticing the change in Balt and Emerson when they re- entered the store, questioned them as to what had happened; and in reply to his inquiry, Big George said: "We're going to tackle the Straits in a small boat." "What! Not on your life! Why, that's the craziest stunt I ever heard of. Don't you know " "Yes, we know," Emerson shut him up, brusquely.
"Yes," he agreed, relief and triumph in his tone, "and drink something, too." "We'll drink to the health of 'Fingerless' Fraser." "To the health of 'Fingerless' Fraser," he echoed. "We will drink that standing." A week later, after an uneventful voyage across a sea of glass, The Bedford Castle made up through a swirling tide-rip and into the fog- bound harbor of Unalaska.
On the impulse of an unlucky moment she offered to paint the flower-rack, as Kittie was busy; so rigged in a big torn flat, and a pair of fingerless gloves, she went to work, and painted the bottom first, with flourishing success; but left it out over night, when it rained and splashed her work with mud; then she began over, and did the top first, and then hung the pot on a little hook, and went over the bottom again; but in the midst of her zeal, the pot slipped, turned over, and deluged her head and body with slopping green paint, and would have ruined her eyes, if she hadn't shut them tight with the first gasp of amaze; and when she tried to walk to the house with them closed, the wheel-barrow stood in the way, and over she went, with a shriek of dismay that brought the whole household flying to the spot; after which the afflicted damsel was picked up, and carried tenderly to the kitchen to be worked with.
He spoke in Italian perfect Italian of Venice and young Day, whose teeth where chattering with fear, translated his words. "Is this your welcome to a stranger," he said, "the companions of whose voyage have unhappily met with misfortune?" Here with a faint motion of his fingerless glove he indicated the dead who lay all about the decks of that fatal ship.
Ten or twelve crippled-beggars had encamped outside. The healthiest of them resembled, to use an expression of Marryat's, "Hunger's eldest son when he had come of age"; the others were either blind, had withered legs and crept about on their hands, or withered arms and fingerless hands. It was the most wretched misery, dragged from among the filthiest rags.
But the present business of these adventures is with Ralph himself, who stood regarding Newman Noggs with a heavy frown, while that worthy took off his fingerless gloves, and spreading them carefully on the palm of his left hand, and flattening them with his right to take the creases out, proceeded to roll them up with an absent air as if he were utterly regardless of all things else, in the deep interest of the ceremonial.
They came out of that French cafe across the street, and got into Hilliard's car. She was dressed up like a pony." "What's that got to do with it?" demanded "Fingerless" Fraser. "She pulled the old fellow's leg, that's all," explained Alton. "Well, it wasn't your leg, was it?" inquired Fraser, sourly. "No; I've no kick coming. I think she's mighty clever."
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