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Am I to bring Retriever home? Peasley. "I dare say the fellow did," Mr. Skinner informed Cappy. "He has four months' wages coming to him at sixty dollars a month and if he didn't, why, I'll instruct McBride to deduct the cable charges from his wages when he pays him off." "I think your reference to his meager maritime experience annoyed him, Skinner," Cappy suggested thoughtfully.
"It does look to me, sir," he replied, with that touch of conscious superiority so noticeable in the Celt, "as though Cappy Ricks might have slipped this cargo to a Dutchman." The Retriever commenced taking on cargo at seven o'clock the following morning, with Mr. Murphy on shipboard and Matt Peasley on the dock superintending the gang of stevedores.
"You needn't count on a job ashore with the Blue Star Navigation Company," Cappy railed. "You needn't think " "Have I your permission to call on Miss Florry again?" Matt asked humbly. "No!" thundered Cappy. "You're as nervy as they make 'em! No, sir! You'll go to sea in the Gualala to-morrow morning d'ye hear? That's what you'll do!" But Matt Peasley shook his head.
"I understand, also, that under your coaxing you used to get ten miles out of her loaded." Parenthetically it may be stated that Matt Peasley had never heard anything of the sort; but he knew the weaknesses of chief engineers and decided to try a shot in the dark, hoping, by the grace of the devil and the luck of a sailor, to score a bull's-eye. He succeeded at least in ringing the bell.
But the police can wire on from Seattle to stop us and take me off at that point." "If they find out their mistake." "They must have found it out long ago. That's why I've got Peasley forcing this old tub; she's doing ten knots, and that's a breakneck speed for her. Once we're through the Straits, I'll be satisfied.
Norma Grainger expressed the will of all when she told Will Peasley that if he danced one dance with that coffee girl she would up and go home alone. In the beginning there was no definite concerted action; it was assured, however, that Yvette would have few partners. Homer did not disappoint his friends.
I'm going to put Matt Peasley aboard the Quickstep as second mate, and let Nature take its course." "I wouldn't do that if I were you, sir," Mr. Skinner advised. "That rowdy Peasley and a man like Kjellin will not get along together for one voyage; then Kjellin will fire him, and first thing you know you'll be groping around in the dark again."
Skinner, loyalty like yours is very, very precious; and your affection is er Skinner, you human icicle, you can't bluff me! I'm on to you, young feller! Matt, you prepare a deed of gift for one-half of my two-thirds interest to Skinner, and take the other half for yourself; and when the Alden M. Peasley has earned what I put into her, credit my account with it.
He made his way hurriedly to the bridge, where he hastily explained to Captain Peasley his evasion of the officers; and here he found Cherry, her face flushed, her eyes sparkling with excitement, but far too wise to speak to him in his present state of mind.
Just at present there is a libel on the Tillicum, and when we lift it Matt Peasley is prepared to plaster another libel on her, and another, and still another. Now, as a result of our conversation with Matt yesterday, he thinks we'll lift the libel to-day in fact, settle with him for what he paid the crew when they assigned their wage claim to his company, and thus prevent any further libels.
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