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"Poor people," repeated the doctor, with relish, "five shillings a visit; very poor people, half a crown." "I'll have half a crown's worth," moaned the miserable mate. "Mr. Mackenzie," said a faint voice from the skipper's cabin. "Sir?" yelled the mate, who was in torment. "Don't answer me like that, sir," said the skipper, sharply.
No particular word was spoken to give excuse for the feeling in the skipper's breast; but in every note and syllable Leyden uttered, even the bare order to cast off lines, there was jubilation and mirth. And mirth, in a man like Leyden, meant mischief, according to Jack Barry's ideas.
Result: three Solomon sores. This made five all together that were adorning my person. Also, Captain Jansen and Nakata had caught gari-gari. Literally translated, gari-gari is scratch-scratch. But translation was not necessary for the rest of us. The skipper's and Nakata's gymnastics served as a translation without words.
"He wath athking quethtionth about you and the boat," replied Tommy innocently. "Eh?" The skipper's filmy blue eyes took on a steely glint. "Asking about me?" "Yeth." "What did he want to know?" "All about you." "Did he say what for?" Captain Billy showed more excitement in his manner than Tommy ever before had seen him exhibit. "No, not that I know of.
"The other chaps said the skipper's insult had turned his brain, but I wasn't quite so soft, an' one time when he was alone I put it to him. "'Joe, old man, I ses, 'you an' me's been very good pals. "'Ay, ay, ses he, suspicious like. "'Joe, I whispers, 'what's yer little game? "'Wodyermean? ses he, very short.
What Michael J. Murphy did not know was that when one has dislocated one's shoulder one will do very little wood-carving during the three subsequent weeks. It almost broke the skipper's heart to think he had made a threat in good faith, and was balked from making it good. During this entire period Mr.
"The skipper's goings-on 'ave got nothing to do with me." "Then she can foller him 'ome in the morning," ses the skipper. "Good night, watch-man." Him and the mate 'elped the silly old thing to the ship, and, arter I 'ad been round to the Bear's Head and fetched a pint for the police-man, I locked up and sat down to think things out; and the more I thought the worse they seemed.
Captain Augustin of Bordeaux swelled out his breast. "That is true," he said. "I have done things like that." "Then do one more!" The skipper's eyes surveyed the men's faces. He caught the spark in their eyes. "I will do it," he cried. "Good!" Colonel John cried. "The arms first!" Flavia McMurrough enjoyed one advantage over her partners in conspiracy.
A minute after he had disappeared another man came up to relieve the one at the wheel, who, as soon as he had surrendered up the spokes, commenced warming himself after the most approved method, by flapping his arms round his body. "The skipper's out o' sorts again this morning," said Obadiah after a time. "I heard him muttering about the woman at the Lust Haus."
Noll Trafford stood leaning against a great post and looking after the lawyer's carriage with a slight choking in his throat, till the skipper's gruff "Get aboard here, lad!" warned him that the "Gull" was about to cast off. Slowly the wharf glided away, and the little coasting vessel stood out into the channel.
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