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Then it came out that Peth's refusal to sleep aft was arranged by Jarrow and Peth to make it appear that they were at odds. The demand for money was to be made ostensibly by Peth, Jarrow always pretending that he was in the power of the crew.
Point Luzon marked the limit of the land over the starboard bow, and on the port side the shining China Sea reached away to the horizon. The jib and foresail were already set although the tug had not cast off. Soon they began to fill, and as Peth bawled to the tug, the hawser was dropped, and tooting a farewell, the little boat swung in a wide arc and headed back for Manila.
"Come on!" and he came, with an awkward, splashing, overhand stroke, like some queer fish with one curved fin out of the water. The rowers stopped backing and watched the two swimmers, as if not sure just what to do. Peth seemed inclined to wait and see how things turned out before making for shore. He evidently had abandoned any desire he had to get aboard the schooner by force.
"No use of gittin' excited up this way. Captain Dinshaw, ye'll please me if ye go below. Now we'll go for'ard and talk this over, Mr. Peth. I won't have no disputin' aboard me." He hurried after Peth, and they went forward of the foremast, talking in low tones. "Captain Dinshaw!" said Locke, as the old man started to descend the stairs to the cabin. "Dad!" warned Marjorie.
"Thinks I'm foremast in his brig," said Jarrow, with a leer at Vanderzee. "You better cut over across the river," said Dinshaw, "and tell him you're ready and you'll have the Nuestra alongside the Mole by dark to take on stores, or he'll have another boat. He said somethin' about knowin' a man out here who had a yacht, comin' down from Japan." "Smoke," said Peth.
"Then I ain't gallant enough for the likes o' you and this charter party, I take it," said Peth, his anger rising. "I ain't findin' no fault with you myself, Peth. All I'm gallied about is what the others'll think. You're goin' mate, of course " "Thanks," said Peth, curtly. "You talk like I was ship's boy, not owner of an eighth of the Nuestra. Who helped you salve her?
It might be for this reason that he was too ready to mistake normal things as evidences of a menace which did not exist. He wondered if this fact might not well account for the formless fears he had felt about Peth and the crew. Like a person who wakes in the night, to find the windows where they shouldn't be, his judgment, too, might be at fault, and affairs far better than he thought them.
I've offered to take him to his island, time and time again, but he wouldn't hear it, 'cause he knew I was makin' money with the Nuestra that's my schooner, the Nuestra Señora del Rosario me and Peth, my mate, we own it with others. In the wreckin' business it's touch and go. You got to be on the spot, and there ain't been any too many wrecks out this way lately.
Then to Peth: "If ye think ye'll be more comfortable for'ard, Peth, why, that's your lookout. We'll let it stand that way till we talk it over and " "Bad for discipline to have the mate for'ard with the crew," shouted Dinshaw. "Ye'll stay with the afterguard, Mr. Peth. I'm master here. That's all." "Who is skipper, anyhow?" demanded Peth. "I'm skipper," said Jarrow.
At least, he didn't want the loss noticed at once." "So Mr. Peth's got an automatic gun, eh?" said Jarrow, rather in a musing way, and drawing a deep breath. "I might not have missed it for days," went on Trask, "but I had two, and " "Two!" "I had a pair of them." "And Peth got away with both of 'em!" "No, only one. I have the other, and Mr. Locke has two.
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