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Before the party left the boat, they met in the saloon, and passed a vote of thanks to the little captain, in which the dinner, the steamer, and her commander were warmly praised. It was written out, a copy was given to Lawry, and it was to be published in the Burlington papers. While the boat was stopping at the wharf, Mr.
By neglecting this precept, I have nearly sacrificed the lives of my best friends. Lawry, if you are going to be a steamboat man, let me give you this maxim for your government 'Haste and Waste." Lawry put the bill of sale of the Woodville in his pocket, and felt like a steamboat proprietor; for the fact that his steamer lay at the bottom of the lake did not seem to lessen her value.
"What for?" "To take people over the ferry." "Oh, bother!" exclaimed Ethan impatiently. "Have we got to leave the work to paddle everybody that comes along over the lake?" "We have," said Lawry. "I must look out for the family now." There was a good wind, and the boys returned to the ferry-house in the bateau.
It was evident even to Lawry, who had not been informed of his brother's worst intentions, that Ben was at the bottom of this conspiracy. Such was indeed the truth. Mr. Taylor was a young man who had recently inherited a large fortune, which, it was plain, would soon be squandered, for he was both intemperate and reckless.
"We had a flaw of wind just now, and it came pretty near being blowed overboard." "Gracious!" exclaimed Mr. Randall, as he clutched the coat. "I'm too careless to live! There's six thousand dollars in a pocket of that coat." "Six thousand dollars!" ejaculated Lawry, whose ideas of such a sum of money were very indefinite. "I should say you ought not to let it lie round loose in this way."
He rushed into the wheel-house, and found that Ben had abandoned the helm. Grasping the wheel, the pilot brought her up to her course, and then turned to his brother. "What do you mean, Ben, by leaving the wheel?" demanded Lawry, filled with indignation at his brother's treachery. "Don't talk to me," growled Ben. "The boat would have been aground in a minute more." "I wish she was."
"He still thinks he ought to be captain, and that it would be better for me;" and Lawry stated his brother's argument. "That's all very pretty," replied Mr. Sherwood. "If you wish to give your brother the command of your steamer, it is not for me to interpose any objection." "But I want to follow your advice." "I think you had better let things remain as they are, for the present, at least.
"When I gave you the wheel, at your own request, you left it, and the boat would have been ashore in another minute. Does that look as though you could be trusted?" added Lawry. "That was because you wouldn't trust me. I was mad." "One who would expose the lives of twenty or thirty persons when he got mad ought not to be trusted." "Lawry, you are no longer my brother.
"Well, it's no use to stand here like logs," said Lawry, "If she has sunk, we will find out where she is." "I reckon you'll never see her again, Lawry. Those old casks leaked, I suppose, and when they were full of water the steamer went down again; or else they broke loose from her when the wind blew so hard." "It didn't blow much when we went to bed. What time did you come home, Ben?"
One of the deck-hands was a boy of sixteen, who had served in a similar capacity on board the lake steamers, and was a good wheelman, though he knew nothing of the navigation of the lake, and steered only by the directions given him from time to time. Captain Lawry called this hand, and gave him the wheel, with orders to run for a certain headland several miles distant.
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