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At the same time, I don't doubt, from what was rumoured about the amount of the treasure that she's to ship, that her skipper'll do everything his wit 'll teach him to keep out of the road of our cruisers and privateers. That, however, ain't very valuable information to give you, because you'll have guessed as much as that yourself.
Already every man o' ye has more gold stored away nor ye ever see afore in all yer life, an' come spring the skipper'll be freightin' yer jewels, an' the cargo out o' the last wrack, north to St. John's, an' sellin' 'em for ye. Would ye have salved 'em widout the skipper? No. Would ye be able for to freight 'em to St. John's widout himself an' his fore-an'-after? No.
I wondered what there was in Zachary Pearse to attract a youngster of this sort; one of the customary twelve children of some country parson, no doubt-burning to shoot a few niggers, and for ever frank and youthful. He came back with his hands full of bottles. "What'll you drink? The skipper'll be here in a jiffy. Excuse my goin' on deck. We're so busy."
You ought to look after those little things or the skipper'll be having you up to the bridge. But, come now, just once more" he curved his left forearm persuasively "once more and " But having caught the flame in the eye that never once looked away from his, the bosun wanted no more of that long-range work. It must be close quarters thereafter, or he foresaw disgrace.
"You and your crook of a skipper'll pay for this!" He snatched up a trailing hawser, saw the ends which had been cut through strand by strand, and with a grasp of the situation that had been better applied earlier, he ran aft, shouting to his crew as he ran: "Loose a jib and hoist it! Lively! You, Blunt, give her a sheer with the wheel across the river that's you."
There was silence for a few moments, and then a voice said: "You can do as you like, my lads: here I am, and here I stays till I've made my pile." "That was Jem's voice," thought Brace; and then he listened again intently. "What about the skipper?" said a voice. "Skipper'll have to put up with it," said another of the men. "I like the skipper, and I haven't a word to say about the two mates.
"All right," he said, "I'll take upon myself the responsibility of agreein' to that. The skipper'll be madder than ever when he finds out what we've done; but I don't care for that, I'm not goin' to leave a feller-creature to die on no wreckage, if I can help it. And if the skipper makes a fuss about it, the authorities at home 'll bear me out." "Of course they will," assented Leslie.
There, haul in sharp and put on a fresh bait." "It doesn't seem much use," said Mark bitterly. "My hands are quite sore." "You'll be obliged to let me have a try. Skipper'll come down on me if we don't have something to show when we get back.
"I don't mean to do anything or know anything," said the man. "Your skipper'll come to me to-morrow if he don't think you're drowned, or I say, did you feel anything of 'em?" "Feel anything of what?" said Don. "Sharks, my lad. The shallow waters here swarm with them." "Sharks!" cried Don and Jem in a breath. "Yes. Didn't you know?" "I'd forgotten all about the sharks, Jem," said Don.
P'rhaps the skipper'll forgive us for what we've done, and persuade the navy gent to fit out a hexpedition to rescue the others. So away we came as fast as we could, but when we got to the boat she was aground, and we had to wait a long time until she floated.
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