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Updated: May 16, 2025
It was all over with quickly, and with the red sun still lingering on the horizon, the little party slowly wended their way back, down the steep trail into the one long street of Sheridan. At the hotel Neb was waiting, the whites of his eyes shining with excitement, his pantomime indicating important news.
These words, uttered a little reproachfully, disposed of the matter. From that hour to this, the subject of wages has never been broached between us. When Neb wants clothes he goes and gets them, and they are charged to "Masser Mile;" when he wants money he comes and gets it, never manifesting the least shame or reluctance, but asking for all he has need of, like a man.
"Yo hoy!" answered Marble; "who hails?" The form of the mate appeared rising in the boat; at the next instant, Neb stood at his side. The conversation of the previous night had been real, and those whom I had mourned as lost stood within thirty feet of me, hale, hearty, and unharmed.
I approached the spot, in tending to question the former on the subject of the weather during his watch; but, just as about to hail him, I heard the young lady say, in a more animated tone than was discreet for the character of the conversation "No, nebber, sah nebber, widout de apperbation of my modder and de whole famerly. Mattermony a berry differ t'ing, Neb, from what you surposes.
How have your own pay and private venture turned out?" "Perfectly well, sir. I am near three thousand dollars in pocket, and shall have no need to call on you, for my personal wants. Then I have my prize-money to touch. Even Neb, wages and prize-money, brings me nine hundred dollars. With your permission, sir, I should like to give the fellow his freedom."
He was as game as he was heartless and cruel. But later on one of the men found a demijohn of liquor in the cook's pantry. Neb, thoroughly cowed by his uncivilized brethren below, had deserted his post and was in hiding somewhere. The liquor was secretly hidden away, and the men began drinking. By the time Gary found out what was up, every one but himself and Duff was recklessly intoxicated.
All my trunks had gone aboard before the ship hauled off, and, the distances in New York then being short, Neb was soon back, and ready to shoulder my carpet-bag. The bill was paid, three or four letters were taken in my hand, and I walked towards the Battery, followed by the faithful black, who had again abandoned home, Chloe, and Clawbonny, to follow my fortunes.
"What dem?" demanded the black, quick as lightning. "Why, papers to make you your own master a free man you surely know what that means. Did you never hear of free niggers?" "Sartin awful poor debble, dey be, too. You catch Neb, one day, at being a free nigger, gib you leave to tell him of it, Masser Mile!" Here was another burst of laughter, that sounded like a chorus in merriment.
"Frenchy's down in the fork'sle, with the hatch over him, and two men with loaded pistols keeping guard, lads." "But s'pose he gets out again?" "They arn't going to let him," said Bob Hampton, "so what's it to be? I've knuckled down, and so's Neb Dumlow and Barney Blane. Are you going to return to dooty or make a fight on it? Just say sharp, 'cause we're in a hurry."
Neb and the cook were keeping up the customary clattering with plates, knives, and forks. "Have the people had their suppers yet, Mr. Diggens?" demanded the lieutenant. "Not yet, sir. We have no cook of our own, you know, sir, and so have been obliged to wait, sir." "The King's men wait for nobody.
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