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I'm referring to the Blue Star Navigation Company. It's a dinky proposition. "Forty-two vessels windjammers, steam schooners and foreign-going freighters " began Mr. Skinner; but Cappy cut him short: "Foreign-going grandmothers! We've got the Narcissus and the Tillicum." "How about my boat the John P. Skinner?" "Oh, yes!
John's published the news of the loss of a large foreign-going vessel, laden with fish for the Mediterranean, near the very spot where our friend lived. On a visit a little later to the shipping office I found the event described in the graphic words of the skipper and mate. Our friend the consignee had himself been on board at the time the "accident" occurred.
That she was a foreign-going ship was evident at a glance, first from her size, and, secondly, from the whiteness of her canvas, bleached by long exposure to a southern sun; and as she drew nearer, the display of flags and pennons which she made, and the sounds of trumpet, fife, hautboy, and drum which floated down the wind from her seemed to indicate that her captain regarded his safe arrival in English waters as something in the nature of a triumph.
He was skipper or just Denny Nolan. He was skipper of Chance Along not a preacher and not the mate of a foreign-going ship. "Sure, it bain't no great trip to Witless Bay an' back agin," he mumbled, staring at the girl in the big chair. The light that entered the room from the gray afternoon, by way of the small window, was more of a shadow than an illumination.
We may, nevertheless, feel certain that that element never amounted to, and indeed never nearly approached, three-fourths of the whole number of men employed in our 'foreign-going' vessels. For this, between 50,000 and 60,000 men would have been required, at least in the last of the three wars above mentioned.
"What a blessing it is there are no sharks round our coast," said Miss Tyrell, in somewhat of a hurry to get away from the mate's heroism. "Have you ever seen one?" "Saw them in the Indian Ocean when I was an apprentice," replied Fraser. "You've been on foreign-going ships then?" said the girl. "I wonder you gave it up for this."
At dawn he fell asleep in his chair and dreamed that he was the mate of a foreign-going ship, and that all he had to do was to shake white powders on to the tongue of the girl he had saved from the fore-top of the Royal William. Cormick shook him awake when breakfast was ready.
The girl fell back a step or two irresolutely. "Ah! why do you trouble so? What does it matter?" Then she added faintly, but hurriedly stumbling over her words: "He wasn't a painter only for amusement; he didn't exhibit. He was a newspaper writer. But he couldn't get work, and got a place in a foreign-going steamer, to keep accounts, I think.
"They are good fellows, of course, with a hundred fine qualities which I lack, but they do not understand half that one may say, or think even the Captain. He is well educated, in his way, but it is only the way of a coasting-captain who has risen by his merits to the command of a foreign-going ship." Miriam gave an impatient little sigh. He had veered again from the point.
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