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To say that poor O'Hale wrung his hands, and wished bad luck to fightin' in general, and to himself in particular, gives but a feeble idea of the distress of his mind at this untoward event. "D'ye think I've kilt him intirely, doctor dear?" he asked of Will Osten, who was on his knees beside the fallen chief examining his hurt. "No, not quite. See, he breathes a little.
Not a friendly eye met his, because those of the crew who were suspected of being favourable to him, or who could not be safely relied on, had been seized by another party of mutineers at the same time that those in the cabin were captured, and among them were three friends of our hero Mr Cupples the mate, Muggins, and Larry O'Hale, seamen belonging to the lost Foam to which Captain Dall had referred while conversing with Will.
"Ha!" said the man, with a broad grin, "me keep eyes in head me doos not in pocket. Ho! ho! Yis, me see an' hear berry well Muggins go too if hims can and Larry O'Hale, ho yis. Now, me go too!" "You too?" "Yis. You save me life; me know dis here part ob the univarse, bin bornded an' riz here. Not far off from de land to-day. You let me go too, an' me show you how you kin do "
When Captain Dall's hands were loosed, he shook his fist in the second mate's face, and said, "Rascal, you'll swing for this yet; mark my words, you'll swing for it." Having relieved his feelings thus, he went over the side. While this was going on, Larry O'Hale, Muggins, and Mr Cupples, with several others, were brought to the gangway. Griffin addressed these before ordering them into the boat.
The howling and hoarse barking of wild beasts was now heard to an extent that fully satisfied Larry O'Hale and his friend Muggins. There were patches of dense jungle here and there, in which it was supposed the animals lay concealed, and each of these were carefully examined by our travellers.
You'd better catch up the halters o' your pack-horses, Mister Irishman " "Larry O'Hale at your sarvice, Mister Trapper." "Benjamin Hicks at yours, Mister O'Hale, but I'm better known as Big Ben! And now," he continued, "keep well in rear, all of you, an' follow me down in the bottom there, between the ridges. Don't out o' cooriosity go exposin' yourselves to the buffalo.
The mate observed it, however, and having a shrewd suspicion of their intentions, ordered them to leave it. "What said you?" asked Griffin of the mate, as he was about to go over the side. "I was about to change some of the crew," he replied confidentially. "It would be as well to keep O'Hale and " "Oh, never mind," said Griffin roughly, "let 'em go."
Faix, I've made up my mind that there is goold in Callyforny and that wan Larry O'Hale is distined for to make his fortin' there so I'll throuble ye for another hunk o' that pottimus, or wotiver ye call it. Prime prog it is, anyhow."
"Only hear that, now," said Larry O'Hale, interrupting; "haven't we bin livin' like fightin' cocks, an' gettin' as fat as pigs? Why, Mr Cupples hisself begins to throw a shadow on the ground whin the sun's pretty strong; an' as for Muggins there " "You let Muggins alone," growled the seaman; "if we are fatterer, p'raps it'll only be for the good o' the niggers when they come to eat us."
As for Muggins and O'Hale, the former, being a phlegmatic man and a courageous, sat down with his back against the wall, his hands thrust into his pockets, and a quid in his cheek, and shook his head slowly from side to side, while he remarked that every one had to die once, an' when the time came no one couldn't escape and that was all about it!
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