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A little maize-wrapped fig of clotted Madeira cigars went with the wine, and the rest was a pale blue smoky silence; Janet, in her splendour, smiling on us two, and patting McPhee's hand. "We'll drink," said McPhee, slowly, rubbing his chin, "to the eternal damnation o' Holdock, Steiner & Chase." Of course I answered "Amen," though I had made seven pound ten shillings out of the firm.
I'm asking where the water came from and what it was doing there, and why you were so certain that it wasn't a leak, McPhee?" "For good reason-for good an' sufficient reason." "Give it to me, then." "Weel, it's a reason that does not properly concern myself only. To be preceese, I'm of opinion that it was due, the watter, in part to an error o' judgment in another man. We can a' mak' mistakes."
"In October o' last year the Board sacked me," began McPhee. "In October o' last year the Breslau came in for winter overhaul. She'd been runnin' eight months two hunder an' forty days an' I was three days makin' up my indents, when she went to dry-dock. All told, mark you, it was this side o' three hunder pound to be preceese, two hunder an' eighty-six pound four shillings.
They may be dying of the fever now this very hour! Deuce take it, man! d'you wonder I'm impatient?" "Aye, m'lord! But here's the dawn, and McPhee is keeping up a full head of steam. We'll soon be doing seven knots." As he spoke, the skipper turned to step into the pilot house.
In a' human probability, he's bein' damned in heaps at the present moment aboard another tramp freighter; an' here am I, wi' five-an'-twenty thousand pound invested, resolute to go to sea no more providential's the preceese word except as a passenger, ye'll understand, Janet." McPhee kept his word. He and Janet went for a voyage as passengers in the first-class saloon.
Wallis retained his grip on the girl, and the sight of his hands upon her stirred a savage resentment in Jim. He made a rush at the sergeant, but Mike was beside him and held him. 'Don't be a fool, Jim. Don't give them a chance, he said. 'She's right as rain. McPhee can do nothing to her; he'll lumber you if you only open your mouth! 'What'll I do with him her, sir? asked Wallis.
This breach, thus reached, is the pass which the Kantishna miners of the "pioneer" expedition discovered and named "McPhee Pass," after a Fairbanks saloon-keeper. The name should stand. There is no other pass by which the glacier can be reached; certainly none at all above, and probably no convenient one below.
"'McPhee, said he, 'ye're no paid to fight Holdock, Steiner, Chase & Company, Limited, when ye meet. What's wrong between you? "'No more than a tail-shaft rotten as a kail-stump. For ony sakes go an' look, McRimmon. It's a comedietta. "'I'm feared o' yon conversational Hebrew, said he. 'Whaur's the flaw, an' what like? "'A seven-inch crack just behind the boss.
"Steiner's men were comin' aboard to take charge an' tow her round, an' I passed young Steiner in a boat as I went to the Kite. He looked down his nose; but McRimmon pipes up: 'Here's the man ye owe the Grotkau to at a price, Steiner at a price! Let me introduce Mr. McPhee to you. Maybe ye've met before; but ye've vara little luck in keepin' your men ashore or afloat!
They then went to the Kantishna diggings and procured supplies and topographical information from the miners, and were thus able to follow the course of the Lloyd party of 1910, reaching the Muldrow Glacier by the gap in the glacier wall discovered by McGonogill and named McPhee Pass by him. Mr. Belmore Browne has written a lucid and stirring account of the ascent which his party made.
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