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He stood still, watching her until she entered the cabin door and closed it behind her. Then he completed the broken sentence, but not in the voice of humility nor with the words that he had intended to utter. Shay, coming up the walk, distinctly heard what he said. "What's the matter, Bill?" he inquired, pausing. "Did she throw the hooks into you?" Landover glared at him balefully.
"As for this vagabond being superintendent of a mining concession up in Bolivia," continued Landover, absentmindedly sticking Mr. Nicklestick's precious, box of matches into his own pocket, "that's all poppycock. He's an out-and-out adventurer. You can't fool me. I've handled too many men in my time. I sized him up right from the start.
Percival cleared the eight or nine feet of intervening space with the lunge of a panther. His solid, compact body struck Landover with the force of a battering ram. Before the larger and heavier man could fire a shot, his wrist was caught in a grip of steel. As he staggered back under the impact, Percival's right fore-arm was jammed up under his chin.
They obeyed him because he is their chosen leader, and that's all there is to this What say, Fitts?" Mr. Fitts, who was not a satellite but a very irritating Christian gentleman, cleared his throat and said: "I didn't speak, Mr. Landover. I always make a noise like that when I yawn. It's an awfully middle-class habit I've gotten into.
And the more sensible and intelligent they become, the easier it is for the labour leaders, the walking delegates, and blood-sucking agitators to make fools of 'em. It's all a matter of leadership, Mr. Landover, as you will admit, any way you look at it. Well, here we are." Landover paused before starting down the ladder to the boat. He turned to address Percival in a loud, clear voice.
This rowdy is not likely to assault me. Nothing will happen, I assure you. Clear out, you bum, do you hear me?" Percival was smiling. "I wish you wouldn't interrupt me, Mr. Landover. As I was saying, it was understood that every man on this ship who is well enough to " "Can't you see that there are ladies present? Haven't you an atom of decency about you?"
"I've never had the pleasure of seeing the Venus Belvedere," interrupted Landover coldly. "You haven't?" exclaimed Morris, amazed. "The armless wonder? You ain't seen her? Why, she's supposed to have the most perfect figger in the world. Maybe you've seen her without knowing what her name is.
"To take effect when I have tied her safely up to her pier in New York," said the old man, striking the rail with his fist. "Great!" cried Percival. "He has just come to me with the complaint that you have threatened to throw him overboard. Is that true, Percival?" "Yes, sir, in a way. I mentioned an alternative." "Mr. Landover is no better than any of the rest of us.
He ignored all private appeals and commands. The time had come for a show-down. It was either Landover and his little band of sycophants, or me and the entire company of men on this ship. It may interest you to know that you and Mrs. Spofford are the only two people on board, outside of Mr. Landover's retrievers, who blame me for what I did this morning."
In the fraction of a second, Landover, unable to withstand this sudden, savage onslaught, toppled over backwards and, with his assailant clinging to him like a wildcat, found himself pinned down to the spacious, inset washstand. The revolver was discharged, the bullet burying itself in the floor. An instant later the weapon fell from his paralysed fingers.
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