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"Captain Captain Hosmer!" cried the former in a rasping voice. "We have been robbed! We've been getting our things together, and our money's gone!" "Robbed?" muttered the captain dazedly, then with indignation he broke out, "I don't believe it! My men are all honest, and have been working like Trojans, to the last man-Jack of them. There's some mistake you must have mislaid it."
But, whatever he sang out, Jacka paid no attention; for by this time his own one eye had told him all he wanted to know, and a trifle more; and he clutched at the wheel for a moment like a man dazed. Then, I believe, a sort of heavenly joy crept over his face, mixed with a sort of heavenly cunning. "Call up the crew," he ordered. "I'm going to put her about. The whole crew every man-Jack of them!"
"Stand up, boys every man-jack of you!" he yelled. "Them fellers got this thing up agin that gal. Give it to 'em good an' sound." The entire audience was on its feet laughing and applauding. Dolly stood waving her hands with the delight of a happy child. She turned to the teachers behind her, and one by one she gradually enticed them to their feet.
"Nay, sir, that they were not," returned Greensheve; "for if I have eyes in my head, every man-Jack of them weareth me a white badge in his bonnet, something chequered with dark." "White, chequered with dark," repeated Dick. "Faith, 'tis a badge I know not. It is none of this country's badges.
We knew we had seen something unearthly; even the captain and Lieutenant Freemantle, though they put down the damage to a waterspout for fear of alarming the men, knew differently, as we did. We had seen the great sea sarpint, if anybody had, every man-jack of us aboard!
'Steady on with those plums, H.O. A little way beyond the treasure you had prepared for them they found two specimens of REAL Roman pottery which sent every man-jack of them home thanking his stars he had been born a happy little Antiquary child. 'Those were our jugs, said Alice, 'and we really HAVE sold the Antiquities.
"Why, Eth'opia, I reckon, if she's got a crew of Eth'opians settin' on t'other side of 'er superstructure." "They ain't a man-jack aboard; and you know it," snarled Galton, "or 'e'd be poppin' 'is eyes hout at such a 'orrible big sight as we must be." "Anyway, I'll bet she blows back w'ere she come from, to-night," persisted the advocate of this theory.
"But, Mr Stokes, recollect I am responsible for the ship, engines and all, sir. The greater includes the less, and, as captain of this ship, I intend to have my orders carried out by every man-jack on board. Do you hear that?" "Yes, sir, I hear," replied Mr Stokes grumblingly as he backed towards the bridge-ladder. "But, sir " The skipper would not give him time to get out another word.
The squareheads knew why Holy Joe had suffered because of them, because of Nils. Because of Newman, too, but they did not guess that. Then, the knowledge that Newman was trapped was a heavy blow to sailors and stiffs alike. They had all, consciously or unconsciously, depended upon Newman's sane strength. With him taken from them they felt every man-jack that their backs were to the wall.
Thar's a sperit that some of us hes fostered hyar, and hit'll go on jest ther same without us hit's a bigger thing then any man, an' hit's goin' ter dog ye till hit gits ye all every sneakin' mother's son an' every murderin' man-jack of yore sorry outfit!
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