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As the hours crept onward the tension increased, and at last Boyd turned to Captain Peasley saying, "You'd better be ready to pull out at any minute, for if the mob breaks in we'll never be able to hold these maniacs." He pointed to the black swarm aloft, whence issued hoarse waves of sound. "I don't like the look of things, a little bit."
I don't have to crawl in the dirt to let him know I'm sorry." Cappy had recovered his composure by the following morning and was addressing Mr. Skinner as "Skinner, my dear boy," when another telegram from Matt Peasley created a very distinct variation in his mental compass. It ran as follows: Alden P. Ricks, 258 California St. San Francisco. X. & Y. copper paint no good.
"Two million dollars!" cried J. Augustus Redell; and a sigh went up from the excited onlookers. "Ah! Mr. Redell is a sport, after all! Two million, flat!" Searles looked down on Matt Peasley. "Die, dog, or eat the meat ax!" he warned the unhappy young man. "Let him have her," Matt growled; and, very red of face, he commenced to shoulder his way through the crowd. "Beat it, Cappy; he's coming!"
She was built at Rangoon in 1790, of teak, and will last forever. Perhaps you saw her when she was exhibited at the Exposition last year. Might get her for you kind of cheap." "Nothing doing. Heyfuss, we want a steamer." "Sorry, but I haven't a thing in steamers. Just sold the last one I had ten minutes ago the Penelope." "The what!" Matt Peasley and Cappy cried in chorus. "The Penelope.
Consequently I am still in command and awaiting your instructions. Peasley. For a long time Cappy Ricks kept looking sternly at Mr. Skinner over the tops of his spectacles. There was blood on the moon again, and the silence was terrible. He kept rocking gently backward and forward in his swivel chair, for all the world as though preparing for a panther-like spring at Mr. Skinner's throat.
Skinner and his bride would travel without charge. The sight of the Skinners coming aboard was not a pleasing one to Matt Peasley. He did not like Mr. Skinner well enough to care to eat at the same table with him, and he bethought him now of all the mean, nagging complaints of the past six months. In particular he recalled Mr.
"Then I can eat and sleep and sing." Captain Peasley was pacing the bridge when later they breasted the glare of Port Townsend and saw in the distance the flashing searchlights of the forts that guard the Straits. They saw him stop suddenly, and raise his night-glasses; Boyd laid his hand on Cherry's arm. Presently the Captain crossed to them and said: "Yonder seems to be a launch making out. See?
"Wherein you show commendable wisdom, Mr. Peasley," the broker answered. "A man can get so far in a windjammer a hundred a month in the little coasting schooners and a hundred and twenty-five in the big vessels running foreign and there he sticks.
She can sail from here to Grays Harbor, take on her cargo, get back to San Francisco and discharge it in twelve days. What's twelve times three hundred and twenty-five?" "Thirty-nine hundred dollars," flashed Skinner, to the tremendous admiration of Matt Peasley, who now considered the manager an intellectual marvel. "Being a saving of how much?" Cappy droned on.
We know now that he will call on the American consul at Pernambuco and ask for a cablegram." "Yes, and by thunder! we'll send it," Cappy declared joyously. "Cable him, Skinner, to fire that German crew so fast one might play checkers on their coat tails as they go overside." "I wish to heaven I could wireless him to put back to New York and ship a new crew," Matt Peasley mourned.
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