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The Commander, recognisin' in me a man of agility, cautioned me to be a father an' mother to Mr. Carteret-Jones." "Didn't he know you?" I asked, thinking for the moment that there could be no duplicates of Emanuel Pyecroft in the Navy. "What's a torpedo-gunner more or less to a full lootenant commanding six thirty-knot destroyers for the first time?
"Presently the doctor comes along, sees the crowd, but goes inside without sayin' nothin'. But soon we 'ears 'im lettin' go at the sick bay stooard inside. 'Wot the devil's the meanin' o' this? 'e wants to know. 'Fust lootenant's orders, sir, sez the stooard. 'Fust lootenant be damned, the doctor sings art. 'I'll report 'im to the captain.
'Op whispers to me that Antonio was a Number One spy when 'e was in commission, and a French lootenant when 'e was paid off, so I navigated at three 'undred and ninety six revolutions to the galley, never 'avin' kicked a lootenant up to date. I may as well say that I did not manoeuvre against 'im as a Frenchman, because I like Frenchmen, but stric'ly on 'is rank an' ratin' in 'is own navy.
The Junior Service was going to bye-bye all round us, as happy as the ship's monkey when he's been playin' with the paints, and Lootenant Morshed and Jules kept bowin' to port and starboard of the superstructure, acknowledgin' the unstinted applause which the multitude would 'ave given 'em if they'd known the facts. On the other 'and, as your Mr. Leggatt observed, they might 'ave killed us.
Dempsey looked up with a hurt and innocent expression on his face. "Oh, lootenant," he exclaimed, "what I'm tellin' is gospel. It's as true it's as true as the communikays." "All right," said Erskine, "issue another, then." "Well," Steve continued, "where was I? Oh yes, we was on the bridge and I'd just told the old lady that the dead soldier was in heaven by now." "Soldier?" repeated Erskine.
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