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You'd be jolly well locked up for mutiny." "I'd sooner be locked up," he said. "It don't kill you!" There was a murmur of agreement from the others, and then a moment of silence, in which, I know, the men were thinking. Jaskett's voice broke into it. "I never thought at first as she was 'aunted " he commenced; but Plummer cut in across his speech. "We mustn't 'urt any one, yer know," he said.
A few seconds passed, and then the light from Quoin's flare streamed out upon the wind; yet nearly a minute went by, and there was no sign of Jaskett's. Then out from the semi-darkness at the starboard yard-arm, there came a curse from Jaskett, followed almost immediately by a noise of something vibrating. "What's up?" shouted the Second Mate. "What's up, Jaskett?"
"It's damned queer! An' there's a lot of other damn queer things happenin' aboard this packet lately." He was silent for a few seconds. Then he spoke suddenly: "It's not nat'ral, I'm damned sure of that much." He took a couple of draws at his pipe, and in the momentary silence, I caught Jaskett's voice, above us. He was hailing the poop.
It was descending full upon Plummer, who, all unconscious of the thing, was staring towards the t'gallant yard. "Look out above you, Plummer!" I almost shrieked. "What? where?" he called, and grabbed at the stay, and waved his flare, excitedly. Down on the upper topsail yard, Quoin's and Jaskett's voices rose simultaneously, and in the identical instant, their flares went out.
The Second Mate explained to him; but he did not speak loud enough for me to catch what he said. I had been struck by Jaskett's attitude, when the light of his flare had first revealed him. He had been crouched with his right knee cocked over the yard, and his left leg down between it and the foot-rope, while his elbows had been crooked over the yard for support, as he was lighting the flare.
Yet, I had a faint hope that those aft had seen it just before it disappeared; but this I knew was vain, directly I heard the Second's voice. "Light be damned!" he shouted. Then he blew his whistle, and one of the men ran aft, out of the fo'cas'le, to see what it was he wanted. "Whose next look-out is it?" I heard him ask. "Jaskett's, Sir." "Then tell Jaskett to relieve Jessop at once.
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