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It had increased Hennesey's respect for Murphy and lessened his respect for himself; for without Murphy's moral support he could not have done his part. It had eliminated the alcohol from the veins and the brains of the twenty-four wild men, and lessened the propensity to kill at the same time that it lessened their fear of a brick.
Young Hudson a smart little fellow, barely fourteen years old, and the most juvenile member of our mess was soon on deck again with the second lieutenant's telescope; but by this time the fog had shut the stranger in again, so, for the moment, friend Hennesey's curiosity had to remain unsatisfied.
In vain Murphy's poised brick and Hennesey's persuasive voice. In vain the leveled pistols of the captain and mates and their thundering orders to stop or be shot down. There came a volley of bricks, and the captain's pistol was knocked from his hand, while a second brick, striking him on the head, robbed him of sense and volition.
And it all worked out the way he hoped, even to the offer of a drink good brandy Hennesey's Three Star. "How did you manage it?" asked Samson. "The princess has disappeared. There's a rumor she's over the border in the next state. Gungadhura has seized her palace and rifled it. How did you get my letter to her, and her answer so swiftly?"
Come in an' I'll pay ye off." "Right ye are. From this on I'll work fur mesilf and git your business, ye skin." Hennesey's estimate of Murphy was not far wrong, though it might also apply to himself.
Then some sharp words of command from the poop, in Mr Hennesey's well-known tones, dulcet as those of a bullfrog with a bad cold, came floating up to me, followed by the shrill notes of the boatswain's pipe and his hoarse bellow of, "Hands make sail!"
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