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"One so seldom thinks of a master's-mate marrying, that the idea of your being in that way has never crossed my mind, except in the manner of a joke." "Master's-mates have married, Captain Cuffe, and they have ended in being very miserable. But Jane, as well as myself, has made up her mind to live single, unless we can see brighter prospects before us than what my present hopes afford."
It was at Spithead we were lying there with the fleet, and I chanced to run foul o' the master's-mate o' our ship. It was all about a bit o' lass that we met ashore, who was my sweetheart. He was a-makin' too free with her, and my blood got up. I couldn't help it, and I threatened him only threatened him. There's what I got for it. Look there, little Will!"
But it is necessary to understand the influence of rank on board a man-of-war, fully to comprehend the effect which was now produced on the master's-mate by the captain's language and manner. Tears streamed out of the eyes of Clinch, and he grasped the hand of his commander almost convulsively. "What can I do, sir? Captain Cuffe, what can I do?" he exclaimed.
Cuffe looked hard at the master's-mate for a half a minute, and his ire insensibly lessened as he gazed. "You are too old a seaman, Clinch, not to know what you were about! If you saw the privateer, be good enough to tell us what has become of her." "That is more than I can say, Captain Cuffe, though see her I did; and that so plainly, as to be able to make out her jigger, even.
But I got out of that lazy trick some time ago; and now I will not turn my back upon any lad of my own age, whether midshipman, or master's-mate, where navigation is concerned." "Ah!" he remarked, "that sounds all right. Tell me, what can you do in navigation problems?" "I can do Plane, Traverse, Middle-Latitude, and Mercator's Sailing," I answered.
"In May, 1782, I sailed from Providence, R. I., as Master's-mate, on board a privateer called the Chance, commanded by Captain Daniel Aborn, mounting 12 six-pound cannon, and having a crew of 65 men." This vessel was captured in a few days by the Belisarius, of 26 guns, commanded by Captain Graves. The prisoners were brought to New York and the Belisarius dropped her anchor abreast of the city.
"Land!" murmured little Fisher who from his diminutive stature had acquired from his fellow-mids the sobriquet of "Six-foot" "Land! it's nothing but `land ho! What land is it, for gracious sake?" to Mr Carter, the master's-mate, who happened to be standing near him. "The Rocca Islands," answered Carter.
Raoul and Ithuel mechanically ceased rowing, under the impression that the master's-mate had still something to communicate. "Boat, ahoy! Answer at once, or you'll hear from me," repeated Clinch. "Aye, aye," answered another voice, which, in fact, was Yelverton's; "Clinch, is that you?" "Aye, aye, sir Mr. Yelverton, is it not? I think I know the voice, sir."
Sennit was soon hard at work; but, under pretence of looking for some better sugar than had been placed on the table, I got three bottles of brandy privately into Neb's hands, whispering him to give one to the master's-mate on deck, and the other two to the crew.
"Your captain tells me here, sir," observed Nelson, after he had read Cuffe's letter a second time, "little doubt exists that Yvard was in the Bay on a love affair, and that his purposes were not those of a spy, after all?" "Such is the, opinion aboard us, my lord," answered the master's-mate.
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