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Dead of course. He wasn't surprised. Here was the land, and there, on the fore-hatch and waiting for the sailmaker there was that corpse. Cause and effect. But he couldn't explain why. Jimmy was to be buried at five, and it was a long day till then a day of mental disquiet and even of physical disturbance. We took no interest in our work and, very properly, were rebuked for it.
Every one of them, except one that carried away something and hauled up and out of it, was diving into it to the foremast with every leap the same as we had been. On that first leg nobody could stand anywhere for'ard of the fore-hatch or he would have been swept overboard. Leaving Egg Rock and going for Minot's Ledge, the skipper left the wheel and George Nelson took his place beside Clancy.
The two seamen on that side of the steamer dropped upon them, gagged them, and secured them so quickly that they could hardly have known what had happened to them. The enterprise had been inaugurated without much noise; but the captain had heard it, and called one of the men at the fore-hatch to take the wheel, from which it appeared that he had been steering the steamer himself.
The sail-hatch and fore-hatch were also fastened and padlocked, and the skylights covered with tarpaulin and screwed firmly down. A mouse could not have found its way below, except perhaps by the stove-pipe or the pipe leading down to the chain-locker. I was no believer in ghosts, but I had to hit on some theory there and then.
The most of them were gathered about the fore-hatch, to the total neglect of their guns, which they had been cleaning assiduously all the morning. On we stood without shifting our course by a point, and were almost within range when the schooner ran up the stars-and-stripes and plumped a round shot ahead of us by way of hint. I stared at Captain Colenso.
Saying this, Jack again disappeared down the fore-hatch. He quickly returned. "It was of no use, sir," he said. "No sooner did I put the water to the poor fellow's lips, than he gave a gasp and off he went. And now, sir, there are five of them lying there all dead. The sooner we get them up and overboard the better."
"They are leathern bags, and weigh about a hundredweight each." "How many are there?" "Forty-six." "We have got the fore-hatch open, and can hand them down in no time. If you will pass the boat along to the chains forward we shall be ready for you. Shall I send a couple of hands down into the boat to hook them on?" "No, you needn't do that."
The fish-tackle was got up, fish-davit rigged out, and after two or three hours of hard and cold work, both the anchors were ready for instant use, a couple of kedges got up, a hawser coiled away upon the fore-hatch, and the deep-sea-lead-line overhauled and got ready.
At the fore-hatch they again descended, passing a figure that appeared to be keeping watch at the foot of the ladder, and almost instantly came upon a group lit up by the glare of a bull's-eye lantern.
"The captain wants Glynn Proctor," said the second mate, looking down the fore-hatch. "Ay, ay, sir," answered Glynn, ascending, and going aft. "Ailie wants to see you, Glynn, my boy," said Captain Dunning, as the former entered the cabin; "and I want to speak to you myself to thank you Glynn. Ah, lad! you can't know what a father's heart feels when Go to her, boy."
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