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"Then there's some queer reference to a ship and a Fiery Queen, and a Stamps and a Shunks, and a Gibson, and a thief, and three bags, and the port of London, which of course means London, and a public-house named, apparently, Torture " "Tartar, I think, uncle," said Madge. "Well, Tartar if you like, it's much the same if you catch him.
Maguinness and descended into the court. Here he found two other boys involved in a difficulty. Things had gone so far that Bootsey saw it would be a waste of time to try to ascertain the merits of the controversy his only and obvious duty being to hasten the crisis. "Hi! Shunks!" he cried, "O'll betcher Jakey kin lick ye!"
Arrived at the docks, one of the first vessels his eyes fell on was the Fairy Queen. Going on board, the first man he met was the captain, to whom he said, touching his hat "Excuse me, captain; may I ask if you have a man in your crew named Stumps?" "No, sir, no such name on my books." "Nor one named Shunks?"
"But you won't hurt poor Stumps when you catch him, will you?" pleaded Letta, looking earnestly up into her companion's jovial face. "He was very nice and kind to me, you know, on Pirate Island." "No, I'll not hurt him, little old woman," said Rik. "Indeed, I don't know yet for certain that Stumps is a thief; it may be Shunks or it may be Gibson, you see, who is the thief.
The rapidity with which this remark was followed by offensive movements on Shunks's part proved how admirably it had been judged. "Kin he!" screamed Shunks. "He's nawfin' but a Sheeny two-fer!"
His reason asserted itself the instant the fugitive was out of sight. He silently paid for the beer, went back to the Fairy Queen to inform the captain that his man Gibson was a thief to which the captain replied that it was very probable, but that it was no business of his and then wandered sadly back to tell the Wright family how Gibson, alias Stumps, alias Shunks, had been found and lost.
He had said, "A sense which eludes all the other senses and which is not apprehensible to reason governs the world, all the rest is circumstantial, ephemeral. Were man stripped one by one of all his attributes, his intelligence, his knowledge, his industry, as each of these shunks was broken up and thrown aside, the kernel about which they had gathered would be a moral sense."
"No, not even Shunks," replied the captain, with a sternly-humorous look, as if he thought the visitor were jesting. "Nor Gibson?" continued Rik. "Yes, I've got one named Gibson. What d'ye want with him?" "Well, I have reason to believe that he is or was a friend of a friend of mine, and I should like to see him." "Oh! indeed," responded the captain, regarding his visitor with a doubtful look.
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