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She flung the table-cloth out from under her arms across the table, spreading it smooth, with quick little caresses of her hands. There was a moment's silence. Then Annixter said: "Here's a letter for you." He laid it down on the table near her, and Hilma picked it up. "And see here, Miss Hilma," Annixter continued, "about that this morning I suppose you think I am a first-class mucker.
"You either have to come up to the scratch, or admit yourself beaten." "Admit myself beaten -by that mucker?" gasped Ripley, turning livid. "Then come up at the call of time," directed Thompson, and strode back to the battle ground. The timekeeper called. Dick Prescott returned to his ground. Ripley stood back, leaning against a tree.
Some of the angry words uttered reached his ears and delighted him. "Hi Martin is hot with wrath, and I'm glad of it," chuckled Ted to himself. "So he thought I'd spare him, did he! Huh! The next time he'd better be a little more careful over his remarks about 'mucker' schools!" Then Ted walked on again leisurely.
"Avast there, Byrne!" he shouted. "It's I, Theriere. Don't shoot again, I want to speak to you." "No monkey business now," growled the mucker in reply. "I won't miss again." "I want to talk with you, Byrne," said Theriere in a low tone. "I'm coming down there." "No you ain't, cul," returned Byrne; "leastways yeh ain't a-comin' down here alive."
"I hates to tink o' dem head-huntin' Chinks gettin' him," replied Byrne; "but maybe I kin hide his grave so's dey won't tumble to it." "You are in no condition to carry him at all," said the girl. "I doubt if you can go far even without any burden." The mucker grinned.
The mate, for his part, gave no indication of harboring the assault that Billy had made upon him other than to assign the most dangerous or disagreeable duties of the ship to the mucker whenever it was possible to do so; but the result of this was to hasten Billy's nautical education, and keep him in excellent physical trim.
Only between waves was the entrance to the main cabins negotiable, while the forecastle hatch had been abandoned entirely after it had with difficulty been replaced following the retreat of three of the crew to that part of the ship. The mucker stood beside Theriere as the latter beat back the men when the seas threatened. It was the man's first experience of the kind.
"Dat's no kind o' job fer a broiler." And before either she or Theriere could guess his intention the mucker had pushed Barbara aside and taken her place at the wheel. "Good for you, Byrne!" cried Theriere. "I needed you badly." "Why didn't yeh say so den?" growled the man.
"Well, here's a pretty go," yelled one of them to the other in an access of impotent fury. "A dandy old mess you've made of this job, Mister bloomin' Peter Burton, haven't you? and dragged me into it along with yer! I wish I'd never had nothin' at all to do with the cussed business, now, I do; I knowed it was boun' to go a mucker, from the very fust!
The mucker had looked to see the girl cower before his threatened blow that would have been ample atonement for her insult, and would have appealed greatly to his Kelly-gang sense of humor. Many a time had he threatened women thus, for the keen enjoyment of hearing their screams of fright and seeing them turn and flee in terror.
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