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“Atkins,” said I, “it seems that Captain Len Guy does not care to come to your inn very often?” “He sometimes comes on Sunday, and this is Saturday, Mr. Jeorling.” “You have not spoken to him?” “Yes, I have.” Atkins was visibly embarrassed. “You have informed him that a person of your acquaintance wished to take passage on the Halbrane?” “Yes.” “What was his answer?”
Arthur Pam’s father was one of the principal merchants there, he was a Navy contractor. It was his son who embarked in the adventures which he related with his own lips to Edgar Poe ” “Captain! Why, that story is due to the powerful imagination of our great poet. It is a pure invention.” “So, then, you don’t believe it, Mr. Jeorling?” said the captain, shrugging his shoulders three times.
“And it is quite possible,” I replied, “that the solid part of the Antarctic region may be reduced to a mere polar mound. In any case, it is well to note any of those observations which are likely to be accurate.” “That is just what I am doing, Mr. Jeorling, and we shall bring back a mass of information about this portion of the southern sea which will prove useful to navigators.”
Everyone would turn against me, even Endicott, perhaps.” “I have urged nothing which is not at least probable,” I answered sharply. “I don’t deny that fact, Mr. Jeorling.” “Yes, Hurliguerly, yes I believe what I have said, and I have no doubt but that we shall really see the land beyond the icebergs.” “Just possible, Mr. Jeoding, quite possible.
Since the salvage affair, is he a little more communicative?” “No, Mr. Jeorling, and I think he even tries to avoid me.” “To avoid you?” “Well, he did so before, for that matter.” “Yes, indeed, that is true,” added Hurliguerly; “I have made the same remark more than once.” “Then he keeps aloof from you, Holt, as from the others?” “From me more than from the others.”
If you were to believe him, Captain Len Guy wouldn’t blow his nose without consulting him. He’s a queer fellow, Mr. Jeorling, not bad, not stupid, but a great hand at getting hold of dollars or guineas! If you fall into his hands, mind your purse, button up your pocket, and don’t let yourself be done.” “Thanks for your advice, Atkins.
And first I said to Hurliguerly: “It was on Atkins that I reckoned to introduce me to Captain Len Guy, for he knows him very intimately, if I am not mistaken.” “Pooh! Atkins is a good sort, and the captain has an esteem for him. But he can’t do what I can. Let me act for you, Mr. Jeorling.” “Is it so difficult a matter to arrange, boatswain, and is there not a cabin on board the Halbrane?
“The sun has no strength in this latitude, Mr. Jeorling, not even in summer. Jem!” West came up to us. “What do you think of the sky?” “I do not think well of it. We must be ready for anything and everything, captain.” “Has not the look-out given warning of the first drifting ice?” I asked. “Yes,” replied Captain Len Guy, “and if we get near the icebergs the damage will not be to them.
“I shan’t forget it, boatswain, I shan’t forget it, since, thanks to your intervention, instead of moping at Kerguelen. I hope shortly to get within sight of Tristan d’Acunha.” “In a few days, Mr. Jeorling. Only think, sir, according to what I hear tell, they are making ships in England and America with machines in their insides, and wheels which they use as a duck uses its paddles.
And whom would you have baptized, boatswain, seeing that all our men, like yourself, have already sailed beyond this parallel?” “We! Oh, yes! But you! Oh, no, Mr. Jeorling. And why, may I ask, should not that ceremony be performed in your honour?” “True, boatswain; this is the first time in the course of my travels that I have been in so high a latitude.”
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