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Updated: June 24, 2025
"'One week after the date of my marriage with Miss Randall I promise to pay Gabriel Grimsby the sum of one thousand dollars for services rendered." "There, how will that suit you?" he asked, "You'll sign that, of course. It's just a little inducement to urge me to greater efforts." Donaster sat for some time in silence. He seemed to be in deep thought, and his brows knitted with perplexity.
Not many words or crafty, but men saw his face, and heard that which was in the voice, and they needed no word of reward to come, but shouted as we had shouted when the bride came home to Grimsby, and I thought that with the shout the throne of Hodulf was rocking.
It was the "Short Blue" fleet of deep-sea trawlers; so named because of the short square flag of blue, by which it was distinguished from other deep-sea fleets such as the Grimsby fleet, the Columbia fleet, the Great Northern, Yarmouth, Red Cross, and other fleets which do our fishing business from year's end to year's end on the North Sea.
Donaster hesitated for a few seconds, but at length pulled a roll of bills from his pocket and counted out twenty-five dollars. "Now, make me out a cheque for half of what you have in the bank," Grimsby ordered as he pocketed the money. "I want to draw it as soon as the bank opens in the morning." Donaster at first protested, but Grimsby was firm, and threatened what he would do.
At nine o'clock, he in general's uniform; his wife in blue satin and diamonds; his daughters in blue crape and white roses; his niece, Lucy Gorgon, in white muslin; his son, George Augustus Frederick Grimsby Gorgon, in a blue velvet jacket, sugar-loaf buttons, and nankeens, entered the north door of the ballroom, to much cheering, and the sound of "God save the King!"
Grimsby made a wry grimace as he retorted: "Yes, and it was worth it to him. A Supreme Court judge don't get a cheque for $20,000 every day. That represents two years' pay." "It might represent two years in jail if it were found out," said the senator with a forced laugh. Grimsby saw an opportunity, and he could not resist the temptation.
The grip which he gave me assured me that he had been brought up hard, but I utterly failed to place him. With a broad grin he relieved the situation by saying: "The last time that we met, Doctor, was on the deck of a fishing vessel in the North Sea. I was second hand aboard, sailing out from Grimsby."
Nothing loath was master gunner, as the other bow-gun came into bearing, to make a little more noise in the world, and possibly produce a greater effect. And therein he must have had a grand success, and established a noble reputation, by carrying off a great Grimsby head, if he only had attended to a little matter.
I would that one of our brothers would come from home that I might send it to them in Grimsby. We do not need it." So I showed him the gold, and he wondered at it, and laughed, saying that the housecarls had the best place after all. And so he went on, and I back to the gate.
You git Donaster, an' I'll take him out. But you'll have to come along, too, Gabe. I won't go without you. I might want help." After some hesitation, Grimsby decided to go. He did not fancy the jaunt, but he favoured the idea, and if Eben would not go without him, there was nothing else for him to do but to go along.
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