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"When a man's shanghaied aboard a blasted hooker like this, with three months of his wages stolen before he gets the knockout drops out o' his head, is he a quitter when he takes his chance to leave her an' look for a white man's job?" "Yes, he is," answered Noble. "You're a sailor, ain't you? Then stick by your ship." "Oh, it ain't no use talkin' to you!" Goodwin rose to his feet.
Indeed, the lot of the sailor on the lakes naturally tends more to the development of his better qualities than does that of the salt-water jack, for he is engaged by the month, or season, rather than by the trip; he is never in danger of being turned adrift in a foreign port, nor of being "shanghaied" in a home one.
The Celtic nature is a fast dye, and Mr Button's nature was such that though he had been shanghaied by Larry Marr in 'Frisco, though he had got drunk in most ports of the world, though he had sailed with Yankee captains and been man-handled by Yankee mates, he still carried his fairies about with him they, and a very large stock of original innocence.
I don't say I didn't let him down crool, playin' into his hands and pretendin' to help and gettin' Captain Mike as a witness, but the fac' remains he got you aboard this hooker by foul play, shanghaied you were, and then you turns the tables on him, knocks the stuffin' out of him and turns him into a deck hand. How's he to complain?
"Very well, sir," said Jack. This is the reason then that Jack and Frank found themselves aboard an American destroyer in the Irish sea. Frank Chadwick, as we have seen, was an American. He had been in Italy with his father when the great war began. He had been shanghaied in Naples soon after Germany's declaration of war on France.
"You were shanghaied as a sailor?" asked Tom. "That's it, and while I was on board the Costelk the captain and mate treated me worse than a dog. See that eye? The captain did that, and when I struck back he put me in irons and fed me nothing but stale biscuits and water." "And the ship left you here?"
Separated from his father in Naples at the outbreak of the great war, he had been shanghaied aboard a sailing vessel when he had gone to the aid of a man apparently in distress. There he was made a prisoner. Some days later he had been rescued by Jack Templeton, a young Englishman, who had boarded the vessel off the coast of Africa, seeking payment for goods he had sold to the mutinous crew.
His code was simple and brief, but it was of iron. "Well, quit, then," he said. "Quit like the Dutchmen! There's no one will stop ye." "They better not," menaced Goodwin angrily. He had been shanghaied, of course, without chest or bag, without even bedding, so that he had worked his way around the Horn in shoddy clothes and flimsy oilskins obtained from the ship's slop-chest.
I might as well suggest that if the thief hadn't been gone when they arrived, the manager and the detective would have shanghaied me, or the house doctor drugged me with a hypodermic till the fellow could get away. Let's end all this! I'm ready to go ashore if you want to take me.
But nevertheless my blood was running high and happy over the excitement I had caused by unlocking the door. "No one let me out. I picked the lock. Will that suit you?" lied Franz, protecting me. "What's the lad been and done?" asked the mate of the Lord Summerville. "I was shanghaied in New York," put in Franz swiftly, "and I demand English justice."
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