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Plover, second engineer; 10. Foker, ice-master; 12. Wolsten, smith; 13. Bolton, sailor; 14. Garry, sailor; 15. Clifton, sailor; 16. Gripper, sailor; 17. Pen, sailor; 18. Warren, stoker. The day of departure arrived with the 5th of April. The admission of the doctor on board had given the crew more confidence. They knew that where the worthy doctor went they could follow.
It's arrmed Oi am to th' tathe!" It was the voice of Pat O'Toole, an Irishman who had been one of Del Norte's gang, but out of gratitude, had saved Frank's life and had been actively concerned in the rescue of Old Gripper. "O'Toole!" cried Frank; "why the dickens have you locked yourself up this way?" "Is it you, Misther Merriwell?" cried O'Toole, joyously.
The second officer forgot his duty as an officer, and allowed them to discuss the authority of the captain before him. "You say, then, Mr. Shandon, that we can't go back now?" said Gripper. "No, it's too late now," answered Shandon. "Then we must think about wintering," said another sailor. "It's the only thing we can do. They wouldn't believe me."
Scott was suddenly taken ill at the Waldorf last night; but that he was resting comfortably this morning, and his physician did not apprehend any serious result. If anything serious did happen to Old Gripper, it might retard the railroad project for a time." "Now that Del Norte is gone, it seems that you should not have any great trouble, Frank?"
Part of the crew philosophically accepted their hard work, but the other complained of it, if it did not refuse to obey. At the same time that they assisted in the installation of the instruments, Garry, Bolton, Pen and Gripper exchanged their opinions.
"You see Warren don't know anything about it, Garry," said Bolton. "Well," said Pen, "we'll ask the commander for a ration of gin; we've earned it well and we'll see what he says." "I wouldn't if I were you," answered Garry. "Why?" cried Pen and Gripper. "Because he'll refuse. You knew you weren't to have any when you enlisted; you should have thought of it then."
Hatteras had the doctor, Johnson, Bell, and Simpson for him; they were devoted to him body and soul; amongst the undecided were Foker, Bolton, Wolsten the gunsmith, and Brunton the first engineer; and they might turn against the captain at any moment; as to Pen, Gripper, Clifton, and Warren, they were in open revolt; they wished to persuade their comrades to force the captain to return to England.
What's the use of beating around the bush. I can see through a millstone if it has a hole in it. Hermia Challoner " "Silence!" His fingers gripper her arm and she stopped, ready to scream with the pain of it. "You're insulting the woman I love. Do you hear?" he whispered through set lips. "I'll hear no more of it here or elsewhere? We traveled together, that is all. My God that you should dare!"
"By Jingo!" said Bolton gaily, "I don't know why the thought strikes me that there's a very jolly tavern in Water-street where it's comfortable to be between a glass of gin and a bottle of porter. Can't you imagine it, Gripper?" "To tell you the truth," quickly answered the questioned sailor, who generally professed to be in a bad temper, "I don't imagine it here."
Watson Scott, familiarly known as Old Gripper, was a man of great hardihood and endurance, and, therefore, for all of his recent experience with Frank Merriwell's enemies, for all that he had been imprisoned by his captors in a natural well and had stood for hours in water up to his hips, he rapidly recovered after arriving once more at the cottage of his friend and business associate, Warren Hatch, on Lake Placid.
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