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"You ain't been much of a mate," Griffiths replied, too hot himself to speak heatedly. "When the beach at Guvutu heard I'd shipped you, they all laughed. 'What? Jacobsen? they said. 'You can't hide a square face of trade gin or sulphuric acid that he won't smell out! You've certainly lived up to your reputation. I ain't had a drink for a fortnight, what of your snoopin' my supply."
With this favouring bit of breeze she has sail on already, and she'll make Guvutu by daylight. Good-night." "I guess I'll turn in, old man," Tudor said, rising and placing his glass on the table. "I'll start the first thing in the morning. It's been disgraceful the way I've been hanging on here. Good-night."
She was a seal-hunter before this gold expedition got her. And seal-hunters had to sail. They've run away from second class Russian cruisers more than once up there off Siberia. "Honestly, if I'd dreamed of the chance waiting for me at Guvutu when I bought her for less than three hundred dollars, I'd never have gone partners with you. And in that case I'd be sailing her right now."
Fulcrum Brothers had no representative present, neither had Fires, Philp Company, and the only man to be afraid of was Nielsen's agent, Squires, and him they got drunk and sound asleep over in Guvutu. "'Twenty, says I, for my bid. 'Twenty-five, says the little girl. 'Thirty, says I. 'Forty, says she. 'Fifty, says I. 'Fifty-five, says she. And there I was stuck.
But this is my jurisdiction, partly, and I have made a fool of myself in it completely. I shall remain and help get things straight again." At Guvutu, Grief sent full instructions to McTavish by a recruiting ketch which was just starting for Malaita.
Bunster fled away in a cutter to Guvutu, where he signalized himself by beating up a young Englishman already crippled by a Boer bullet through both hips. Then it was that Mr. Haveby sent Bunster to Lord Howe, the falling-off place. He celebrated his landing by mopping up half a case of gin and by thrashing the elderly and wheezy mate of the schooner which had brought him.
Captain Ward sailed in the Wonder for the Santa Cruz Islands; and Grief, borrowing a whaleboat and a crew of black prisoners from the British Resident, crossed the channel to Guadalcanar, to examine the grass lands back of Penduffryn. Three weeks later, with a free sheet and a lusty breeze, he threaded the coral patches and surged up the smooth water to Guvutu anchorage.
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