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Why, you saved my life, and I should be very ungrateful if I did not value your friendship," replied Feodora, apparently investigating the texture of the wood of which the floor was composed. "Then you value it because I rendered you a little service on the lake," added Shuffles.
"I have been insulted and outraged, and I will teach him that Bob Shuffles is not to be treated in that manner! I will be revenged upon him, if it costs me my life." "The fellows won't go into any such desperate game as that," replied Wilton, cautiously. "But there will be fun in the thing," added the malcontent, softening his tone. "We shall have the ship all to ourselves.
"Man overboard!" he shouted with desperation, as he threw off his pea-jacket, and dived, head foremost, from the forecastle into the sea. His first impulse had been to do a foul deed; his next, to undo it. Shuffles was a powerful swimmer. The ocean was his element.
When he went over to the lee side, it was understood that he was simply a student, and even an ordinary seaman might speak to him when he walked forward. Shuffles had explained the game to the outsiders on the lee side, out of the hearing of the officer of the deck; and Pelham, entirely satisfied that he was already elected, did not trouble himself about the matter.
"What shall her title be?" added Shuffles. "Queen," replied Gordon. "No; that's too commonplace," answered Haven. "What shall it be, then?" "Something outlandish, just for the fun of the thing," said Haven, who was not a very warm advocate of secret societies. "The Amazon," suggested one of the seamen. "O, no! don't call her an Amazon," protested Paul. "It would be a libel upon her."
Taking the arm of Ben Duncan, who had suddenly risen in the estimation of Sir William, because he was on familiar terms with so distinguished a young gentleman as Lord Elfinstone, they left the hotel, very much to the satisfaction of Shuffles and Feodora.
Shuffles was disappointed by the scruples of his generally unscrupulous companion. He regarded the machinery of the plot, the clap-trap of the secret league, as decidedly attractive; and he depended largely upon it to influence his companions.
This boat behaves very handsomely, and is stiff enough to weather a gale," added Shuffles, confidently, as the little vessel leaped upon one of the snappy, snarling billows, and then plunged down into the trough of the sea. "I never was terrified in a boat before," said she, shaking with alarm. "It is a heavy storm, and not just the weather for a lady to be out in. Don't be frightened, miss.
"Why, if the unpopular officer went forward, a belaying pin was sure to drop on his head or his feet; a tar can or a paint pot would be upset on his back; or, if he went below, a cannon ball was liable to roll out of a shot case upon him. Of course no one ever knew the author of this mischief." "Do you propose to play off any of these tricks on Lowington?" demanded Shuffles.
At ten o'clock the first part of the port watch was relieved, and the second part went on duty. Shuffles and Wilton were at liberty now, but there appeared to be a coldness between them, and Wilton sought another companion for his leisure hours. Sanborn and Adler belonged to his part of the watch, and he soon joined them.
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