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"Of course not; he was employed as a sort of scullion to be worked wherever he could make himself useful. Mr. Nawood engaged him on the recommendation of Mr. Lillyworth," added Flint, with something like a frown on his brow, as though he had just sounded a new idea. "Have you asked Mr. Lillyworth anything about him?" "I have not; for somehow Mr.
"But they were talking about me, as I told you before," answered the scullion, rather impatiently, as though he too had a mind of his own. "Wasn't anything said about the operations of the future?" demanded Mr. Lillyworth. "Not a word; but you know as well as I do that the captain has sealed orders which he will not see before to-morrow.
Lillyworth, you will make the course southeast by east," said Christy, looking at the officer of the deck.
"If the doors and keyholes do not have ears, there may be ears behind them, as some of us have learned to our entire satisfaction." "Not a word from me, Captain Passford," added Baskirk. "And not one from me," repeated Flint. "Unquestionably the curiosity of Mr. Lillyworth and his confederate are and will continue to be excited to the highest pitch," continued Christy.
"I am afraid we have some hard material on board, though there are a good many first-class fellows among them." "Of course we can not expect to get such a crew as we had in the Bellevite. How do you like Mr. Lillyworth?" asked the commander, looking sharply into the eye of his subordinate. "I don't like him," replied Flint, bluntly.
He had learned from Flint that Mulgrum had been recommended to the chief steward by Lillyworth, so that it was evident enough that they had been acquainted before either of them came on board. But he could not see them behind the mast, and he desired very much to know what they were doing.
It was plain enough to Lillyworth that the captain was disregarding his instructions; but his lips were sealed in regard to this disobedience, for he could not indicate in any manner that he knew the purport of the sealed orders; and doubtless it did not occur to him that the deaf mute had been blinded, in addition to his other infirmities.
Lillyworth?" he asked of the officer of the deck, after he had politely returned his salute. "I don't believe we shall have any more wind today," replied the second lieutenant, as he looked wisely at the weather indications the sky presented. "But it don't look much like fairing off, and I shall look for fog as long as the wind holds where it is."
"I shall have occasion to change the course of the ship, and head her more to the eastward. Of course the second lieutenant will observe this, and will understand that I am not following the orders reported to him by Mulgrum. You are my only confidants on board, and it will be necessary for you to refer Mr. Lillyworth to me when he asks for further information."
"Dave," said he when the cabin steward presented himself before him, "go on deck and ask Mr. Lillyworth to report to me the log and the weather." "The log and the weather, sir," replied Dave, as he hastened out of the cabin. Christy watched him closely as he went out at the door, and he was satisfied that Mulgrum was not in the passage, if he had stopped there at all.
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