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You there, Fillot? I heered in a dull sort o' way, and then the poor lufftenant went down with a groan, and same moment I hears a scrufflin' forrard and aft, cracks o' the head, and falls. Minute arter there was a row going on in the fo'c's'le.
Yes, one do feel lazy here; but it don't matter, Mas' Don; there's no bosun, and no master and lufftenant and captain to order you about. I rather likes it, only I seem to want my Sally here. Wonder what she'd say to it?" "We must get away from it, Jem." "But we arn't got no boat, and it takes pretty nigh a hunderd men to row one of them canoes."
"Why, it hurts your feelings as much as it does your body." "Ah, well, never mind. You're quite safe now." Tomati walked away to speak to one of his men. "Quite safe now, he says, Mas' Don. Well, I don't feel it. Hear what he said to the fust lufftenant; this was the worst part of the coast, and the people were ready to rob and murder and eat you?" "I didn't hear all that, Jem," said Don quietly.
"Strange deal of baggage," he said, when nearly all was on board. "Must say it's a big lot for two passengers." "More than you've got, sir?" said the mate. "Twice as much, lufftenant. But hullo, what have you got there barrel o' brandy?" "No," said the mate roughly; "it isn't juicy: it's dry." "That's queer, lufftenant, but so it is: there's holes in the top. What do they mean?"
"Why, you know, sir; looking after the blackbird catchers the slavers." "Oh no; they are not on this station for that." "Must be, sir." "No, Joe." "Well, but, sir, you heard what the lufftenant said to our old man. That's what they were after, sir, and a bit disappointed too, until you and the doctor made them so friendly.
"It's my head goes all foggy sometimes, and then I can't think; but I'm all right again, ain't I, mate? Not going to be like the lufftenant, eh?" "Not you," said Tom Fillot. The coxswain laughed. "Yes, I'm coming round," he said. "Head's a bit soft, that's all; but I'm coming round."
But he warn't, only onsensible because his skull was dinted in, and the doctor said it rested on his brain; and that's what's the matter with our lufftenant, for I felt his head." "And did the man die?" cried Mark.
"There we are," said the mate, with a laugh, as he turned to the American. "Yes, there you are, lufftenant. Bit heavy, wasn't it?" "Oh, no, nothing much. Now, my lads, look alive!" There was a chorus of: "Ay, ay, sir!" and a few minutes later the contents of the last truck were reposing in the partitioned-off space in the brig's hold.
"Why, lufftenant," he said, "why don't you smoke and make your miserable life happy?" "Because I'm at work," said the mate bluffly. "My skipper don't stand smoking when we're busy." "Don't he now? Bit of a tyrant, I suppose," said the American. "Humph!" ejaculated the mate gruffly. "I like him, though," said the American: "seems to know the ropes." "Oh, yes, he knows the ropes," said the mate.
"What's the matter, my lads?" cried the lieutenant sharply; and he forgot his own sufferings now that there was a sudden call made upon his energy. "Tell the lufftenant, Joe Dance," said Fillot, who was nearest to where his officers sat, but who preferred to pass task on to the coxswain, who was farthest off. "Why couldn't yer tell him yersen?" growled the coxswain. "Speak out, Dance.
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