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"They may find the treasure, but getting it home's another thing." "I want you to know," he went on, huskily, "that I appreciate your standing by me, and if we get out of this alive, you and I, with our discharge papers, I promise I'll be your partner in this new enterprise the quest for treasure; that is, if you'll take me on." "Will h'I?" Jarvis sprang to his feet, a new glad light in his eye.
"There are the three midshipmen I was telling you about," whispered Pennington, slipping a half sovereign into the Englishman's hand. "You thoroughly understand your part in the joke, don't you?" "Don't h'I, though just, sir!" laughed the undersized Englishman, and strolled away.
The spook of a cook carn't reach the spook of a baron there hany more than a scullery-maid can reach a markis 'ere. H'I tried that when the baron died and came over to the hother world, but 'e 'ad 'is spook flunkies on 'and to tell me 'e was hout drivin' with the ghost of William the Conqueror and the shide of Solomon. H'I knew 'e wasn't, but what could h'I do?"
"What was the amount of your wages due at the time of your discharge?" asked Hankinson. "H'I was gettin' ten pounds a month," returned the spectre. "Geewhittaker!" cried Terwilliger, "you must have been an all-fired fine cook." "H'I was," assented the ghost, with a proud smile.
I'll pay you your wages if you'll go back to Spookland and mind your own business. Ten pounds isn't much when three-dollar shoes cost fifteen cents a pair and sell like hot waffles. Is it a bargain?" "H'I was sent off with three months' money owin' me," said the ghost. "Well, call it thirty pounds, then," replied Terwilliger.
"Wot hev h'I been a-doin' of fur a lively-hood, sir?" repeated the sooty gentleman, who evidently was a wag, speaking, albeit with a comical expression on his countenance, with a native dignity that would have won the praise of Lord Chesterfield. "W'y, sir, h'I'm a `h'upright, sir, that's wot h'I h'am!" "An `upright'!" exclaimed Commander Nesbitt, with a smile.
"The thing that's troublin' me just now," he said slowly, "is the question of th' two bloomin' 'eathen that faded from h'our h'eyes. H'I 'ates to think they live, an' h'I 'ates to trust my 'opes they're done for. If they're h'alive, they may get the treasure yet, an' h'I 'ates t' be beat by a bloody, bloomin' 'eathen." "They're a long way from home base," said Dave with a grin.
He plays the fiddle to the delight of all the balls and weddings through the country-side; and he speaks English to the admiration and envy of the other guides. But like all men of genius he is modest about his accomplishments. "H'I not spik good h'English h'only for camp fishin', cookin', dhe voyage h'all dhose t'ings." The aspirates puzzle him.
"Would you er would you consent to retire from this haunting business of yours, and give me a receipt for that bill for wages, interest and all, if I had you made over into the spook of a duchess? Revenge is sweet, you know, and there are some revenges that are simply a thousand times more balmy than riches." "Would h'I?" ejaculated the ghost, rising and looking at the clock.
These belonged to Jarvis, himself; had been with him on many a journey and were now most often consulted. "Near's h'I can make it, sir," he said, at last, "we're some two hundred miles from Point Hope on the Alaska shores and a bit farther from a point on the Russian shore, which the natives call On-na-tak, though what the place is like h'I can't say, never 'aving been there.
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