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You never saw me backward about getting into a fight, did you?" Jim smiled reminiscently and then said, "I'm going to start an ice cream and soft drink joint next to the moving picture show." Here Pen laughed. "I asked one of the oilers in the cable tower the other day if he liked to work for the government. He grunted.
Heavy clouds of smoke from the triple stacks revealed that a hundred glowing furnaces were being fed with fuel, assistant engineers were busily inspecting, and oilers were active in lubricating the ponderous engines that every emergency might be promptly met. Ports were closed and every precaution taken.
Smooth, streamlined, it was a lovely sight as it stood at the spacefield in the shadow of the great starships. Alan looked at it with pride a slender dark-green needle yearning to pierce the void. He wandered around the spaceport and heard the fuelers and oilers discussing it in reverent tones. "That's a mighty fine piece of ship, that green one out there. Some lucky fellow's got it."
In the engine-room, oilers passed to and fro, in and out of the plunging, twisting, glistening steel, with oil-cans and waste, overseen by the watchful staff on duty, who listened with strained hearing for a false note in the confused jumble of sound a clicking of steel out of tune, which would indicate a loosened key or nut.
It could just as well have been written from the view-point of the merchant captain or his officers aboard all on the job; or the chief engineer or his assistants all on the job, and who put in more than one hour guessing at what was going on above; or from the view-point of the quartermaster captain, or his clerks, or the oilers, or the firemen, or the water-tenders, or the cooks, or anybody else, high or low, in the ship's regular service.
The captain went staggering backward from the force of his effort and the weight of the door. The unconscious form of Lieutenant Mackinson tumbled out upon the floor. His face was almost blue from suffocation. The captain sounded three short, sharp blasts upon a whistle which he had taken from his pocket, and two oilers came running to the spot.
The crew of the vessel included the captain, four officers, two engineers of the first rank, assistant engineers, firemen, coal-passers, oilers, a purser, the head-steward and the second steward, the chef, the second cook, and a doctor.
But history oilers no parallel to the complete vindication of St. Paul's policy in carrying Christianity over into the Græco-Roman world, where alone, as the event proved, it could live. This is a complete answer to those who maintain that Christ made no break with Judaism.
"Help us carry this man to fresh air immediately," he ordered. "He has been overcome." With one of the oilers carrying the lieutenant by the feet, and the other man and Slim at either shoulder, the unconscious young officer was carried up flight after flight of steps until, the captain leading the way, they arrived at the promenade deck.
'Obbs appeared in the shape of a walking pillar of oil-skins capped by a sou'wester, and went on deck; Stryker, following him out of the state-room, shed his own oilers in a clammy heap upon the floor, opened a locker from which he brought forth a bottle and a dirty glass, and, turning toward the table, for the first time became sensible of Kirkwood's presence.
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