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So up for Polperro they bore, half a dozen men from the lugger working the Van der Werf, and old Captain Jacka asleep in her lazarette till roused out of his dreams by the rattle as they cast anchor half a cable's length outside the haven.
Boy Scout or not, I'll put a dent in his dome that'll hold coffee like a saucer!" "Will that fid hold?" questioned Tom examining the spot. "No, I don't think it will," was Harry's reply. "We'd better get a plug of that soft pine in the lazarette, then when it gets soaked it'll swell and hold tight. This fid's made of hard wood.
But it was too late. We didn't dare break out the lazarette. Hungry? I'm just as hungry as they are." He spoke to the men again, and again the throat rumbling and cursing arose, their faces convulsed and animal-like with rage. The second and third mates had joined the captain, standing behind him at the break of the poop.
"And took the lazarette ladder along with him?" Captain West queried. "Yes, sir. It's the Greek that jumped over at Baltimore." Evidently the affair was not serious enough for Captain West to be the Samurai. He lighted a cigar and resumed his stroll. And yet he had missed nothing, not even the absence of the ladder. Mr.
Meanwhile, the French crew, under the supervision of the mates with Price watching the operation to see that a clean sweep was made of the lazarette went to work to pass the stores on deck; and in less than an hour everything that the lazarette had contained was safely transferred to the brig, and stowed away.
"One of them scallywags sez 'e 'as seen a ghost," he announced, with the calm air of a man who states that the moon will rise during the next hour. "I wish he could see less remarkable things, such as schooners, sir," said Hozier. "But 'e swears 'e sawr it twiced." "Oh, is he the man who reported a ghost outside the lazarette last night?" "I s'pose so. Did 'e tell you about it?
Harvey could not see how one more fish could be crammed into her, but Disko and Tom Platt stowed and stowed, and planked the mass down with big stones from the ballast, and there was always "jest another day's work." Disko did not tell them when all the salt was wetted. He rolled to the lazarette aft the cabin and began hauling out the big mainsail. This was at ten in the morning.
Her trips had become necessarily longer, and there was but two weeks' supply of food in the lazarette. The New England coast was an enemy's country, but in the crowded harbor of New York was a chance to lie unobserved at anchor long enough to secure the stores she needed, which only a large city can supply.
I know you're just longing to tuck this young lady up in bed poor thing. Think what she has gone through! You ought to be fussing with sherry and biscuits and what not making that good-for-nothing steward fly round. The beggar is hiding in the lazarette, I bet. Now then allow me." I got hold of the matter there again.
Thus while Davidson expected every moment to hear them begin down there, they had the bar off already and two cases actually up in the cabin out of the lazarette. "In the diffused faint glow of the skylight the Frenchman moved no more than a statue. Davidson could have shot him with the greatest ease but he was not homicidally inclined.
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