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"There is room for all the Christians in the ship to stow themselves in this pinnace," resumed Nighthead; "and as for those that place their dependance on any particular persons, why, let them call for aid where they have been used to receive it." "From all which I am to infer that it is your intention," said Wilder, calmly, "to abandon the wreck and your duty?"
"I have never seen a ship got out of irons more handsomely than he handled the 'Caroline' this very morning." Nighthead now indulged in a low, but what to his listeners appeared to be an exceedingly meaning, laugh. "When a ship has a certain sort of Captain, one is not to be surprised at any thing," he answered the instant his significant merriment had ceased.
Nighthead had named them, as he would have made allusion to a part of the cargo, but their fate had little influence on his hardened nature. Mrs Wyllys and her charge had therefore remained below during the whole period, perfectly unapprised of the disasters of the intervening time.
I have just this much, and no more, to say: Give me for consort a craft whose Captain I know, or give me none!" "Such is your taste, Mr Nighthead," said Wilder, coldly; "mine may, by some accident, be very different."
The orders were given to the inferiors; and, as a matter of course, they were obeyed though ill-suppressed and portentous sounds of discontent at the undetermined, and seemingly unreasonable changes in their officer's mind might been heard issuing from the mouths of Nighthead, and other veterans of the crew.
"Does the ship leak?" demanded his superior with a quickness of utterance which sufficiently proclaimed how important he deemed the intelligence. "Yesterday, I would have boldly put my name to the articles of any craft that floats the ocean; and had the Captain asked me if I understood her nature and character, as certain as that my name is Francis Nighthead, I should have told him, yes.
"In the waist there!" cried the calm, authoritative tones of Wilder. Had a warning voice arisen from the turbulent and rushing ocean itself, it would not have sounded more alarming, in the startled ears of the conscious seamen, than this sudden hail. Their young Commander found it necessary to repeat it, before even Nighthead, the proper and official spokesman, could muster resolution to answer.
"Is there no sail in sight, to take us from the wreck? or must we perish in our helplessness!" "God-protect us from anymore strange sails!" exclaimed the surly Nighthead. "There we have the pinnace hanging at the stern, and here must be land at some forty leagues to the north-west.
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