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Updated: May 21, 2025
Mutineer's cogitations, transmuted into human speech, were something to this effect: "Hello! What's that horse trying to do? He can't for a moment expect to pass me!" But the next moment a roan mare actually did pass him, going at a swift gallop. Mutineer laid his ears back, "The impudence!" he said. "Does that little whiffet of a roan mare think she's going to show me her heels? I'll teach her!"
As Drew stepped in to deliver a short-armed jolt to the mutineer's head, the latter took the punishment offered, but, with all his weight, stamped on Drew's unprotected foot. The groan that this forced from the young man's lips brought a diabolical grin to the mutineer's face.
In fact, Drew was not getting much the best of it, although few of the mutineer's blows landed. This fighting at arm's length never yet brought a quick decision. And that was what Allen Drew was striving for. For all he knew, Ditty might take it into his head to come off to the schooner before bedtime. If he were caught in this plight, he would be utterly undone.
Not infrequently, indeed, they were consenting parties, winking at what they could not prevent, and assuming the command again when the safety of ship and crew was assured by successful flight, with never a hint of the irons, indictment or death decreed by law as the mutineer's portion. These modes of flight did not in every instance follow the hard-and-fast lines here laid down.
I felt horribly nervous as I thought of the wounds received by Walters and Dumlow, but I drew my breath hard, as I stood up in the boat and tried not to look alarmed, though, as I waited for Mr Brymer's orders to speak, I knew that I must offer the most prominent object for the mutineer's aim.
I had listened to the Arab sheikhs, friends of the Doctor, advising them in mild tones to give them up; I had witnessed the mutineer's stubbornness; and it was then, on the burzani of Sayd bin Majid's house, that I took advantage to open my mind on the subject, not only for the benefit of the stubborn slaves, but also for the benefit of the Arabs; and to tell them that it was well that I had found Livingstone alive, for if they had but injured a hair of his head, I should have gone back to the coast, to return with a party which would enable me to avenge him.
But, in the sense of the Litany, the mutineer's death is far from sudden: his offence originally, his imprisonment, his trial, the interval between his sentence and its execution, having all furnished him with separate warnings of his fate having all summoned him to meet it with solemn preparation.
As she gazed out to sea, her mind went back over the year and a half that had passed since she and Lucile had spent that eventful month on Mutineer's Island. But her thoughts were cut short. Throwing up her hands in wild glee, she exclaimed: "The mail! The mail!" The coming of the mail carrier was, indeed, a great event in this out-of-the-way spot.
I have seen the man at the wheel deliberately deflect the ship from its course, in order to bring the wind against the mutineer's belly, hoping to have him blown overboard while he was running aloft.... And one night, in the forecastle, someone hurled a shoe at him. It was ghastly and bloody like a butchered heart. Later, I asked the sailors why this had been done to Franz. And Klumpf said
"Take hold of him, Stanger," this to the second mate, a lithe, sun-browned, handsome lad who knew English but hated to speak it. They wrestled about the cabin at a great rate ... finally they succeeded in forcing a pen into the mutineer's hand.... Then the man calmed down, apparently whipped. "Very well, where shall I sign?"
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