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Updated: June 1, 2025
"Did you hear that? Tell me, did you hear it?" Some one spoke of ghosts, none of us laughed, and Neddie Benson whimpered something about the lady who told fortunes. "She said the light man and the dark man would make no end o' trouble," he cried; "and he " "Keep still," another voice exclaimed angrily. "It was Bill Hayden," the voice continued. "He hollered."
Now the mist eddied up to the rock again; now it curled away and opened out until we could look down to the ghostly, phosphorescent whiteness of waves breaking on rough stones almost directly under us. Blodgett, with a queer, frightened expression, crawled back to Neddie Benson.
"It is at two o'clock Aunt Rosie is to be married, then there will be the wedding feast, and after that the bride and groom will go on a journey," said Neddie, as if bestowing a piece of valuable information upon his hearers. "Yes," said Elsie, "but, as everybody knows it, what's the use of telling it?"
I suppose I was hysterical, but it created a diversion and helped to save the day; and Neddie Benson and the man from Boston, whom Roger had sent below, returned soon with bolts of cloth and knives and pistols and threw them in a heap on the quarter-deck. Some word that I suppose meant gifts, went from lip to lip and our allies eagerly crowded around us.
Neddie! don't put that in your mouth; give it to brother, quick!" But master baby had no idea of giving up his treasure-trove, and resisted so stoutly that a regular scramble ensued.
She wheeled softly on him, and looked him full in the eyes. "What other testimony was there to offer?" "We are getting a long way from our starting-point," he answered evasively. "We were talking of a more serious matter." "But a matter with which this very thing has to do, Neddie Dibbs. There's a mystery somewhere.
Close behind him ran Neddie Benson, who saw in the adventures of the night a more terrible fulfillment of the plump lady's prophecies than ever he had dreamed of; then came Roger and I, and at my shoulder I heard Davie's heavy breathing and Blodgett's hard gasps. To snakes or other reptiles that may have inhabited the warm pools through which we splashed, we gave no thought.
"Ay," said Davie Paine sadly, "never again 'll I have the handle before my name. But what of that? It's a deal sight jollier in the fo'castle than in the cabin and I ain't the scholar to be an officer." He sighed heavily. "It warn't so jolly this voyage," Neddie Benson muttered, "what with Bill Hayden passing on, like he done." We were silent for a time.
But Neddie and his doleful fortune-teller as usual banished our gloom, and the forecastle reechoed with hoarse laughter, which grew louder and louder when Neddie once again narrated the lady's charms, and at last cried angrily that she was as plump as a nice young chicken. "If you was to ask me," Bill Hayden murmured, "I'd say it was just a sail."
Don't tell me he's shipped with us again!" "But I tell you," Neddie persisted shrilly, "I tell you they hit it right, they do, often. And the lady, she says, 'Neddie Benson, don't you go reckless on this next voyage. There's trouble in store, she says. 'There'll be a dark man and a light man, and a terrible danger. And I paid the lady two dollars and I "
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