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Updated: June 15, 2025
"Hillo, mister," said the American as soon as he noticed him, "jest roused up, hey? I thought you wer havin' a bit of snooze, and wondered when you were goin' to turn out!" "Ah," said Mr Meldrum gravely, "it's no time for sleeping now for any one on board. The ship is in far too perilous a position for that!" "Is she?" asked Mr Lathrope, most unconcernedly apparently.
If she had any scruples, Mr Lathrope set the good lady a praiseworthy example in looking after the necessities of the inner man. "S'pose we air gwine down to Davy Jones's Locker," said the American, with a comical twinkle in his cunning grey eyes; "thar's no reason why we shouldn't go with a full stummick as well as one like an empty meal sack, hey? Look at me, marm.
Both Mr Lathrope and Frank were right as to the weather, for, although the snow-flakes came down more slowly and were much smaller than they had been, the shifting of the wind had created the change. This was now blowing into the bay straight from the sea; and while the gale was still as high and fierce as at the beginning of the snow-storm, it was not quite so cold.
The first mate's brawny fists, hitting out right and left, did yeoman's service in the melee that ensued, and so did Mr Lathrope, while Frank and Mr Meldrum also fought well; but the four were powerless against Moody's gang, who numbered a round dozen and had, by battening down the main-hatch, prevented the loyal portion of the crew from coming to their assistance when, of course, the tables would have been turned.
Mr Lathrope!" he called loudly down the companion. "Come up here at once and leave the ladies for the present. Something dreadful has happened!"
After many attempts and failures, they managed to run the boat on to a black sandy stretch of beach which opened out beyond the smoking mountain; and here, they unloaded her in safety. They had then more provisions than would have lasted them for months with care. "All of ourn!" ejaculated Mr Lathrope, interrupting the steward at this point of the narrative.
When he reached the cuddy, the reason of her absence was explained. Poor Florry had met with an accident, the concussion when the ship had struck the iceberg having thrown her out of her berth, cutting her head against the cabin door; and Kate, assisted by Mr Lathrope, was binding up the wound and comforting the sufferer.
I really don't think she could ever be dignified to me any more!" "For shame, papa, to laugh at misfortune!" said Kate; "and now, as Mr Lathrope seems better, I'll go and look after his fellow-sufferer."
Look out for me to make my claim within that time, according to your promise!" "And I guess I'm witness to that thaar agreement," exclaimed Mr Lathrope, starting up. The artful old fellow had been "playing 'possum," as he termed it, all along; only waiting for the denouement of the little drama before disclosing himself.
Closer and closer the boat came, until at last its keel touched ground, when, slewing round broadside on, it was left stranded on the beach. "Snakes and alligators!" exclaimed Mr Lathrope, the lugsail swinging aside and enabling him and the others to see into the boat clearly, a thing which had been previously impossible from the boat's coming up end on. "They air a ruin lot, mister!
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