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Updated: June 7, 2025
"Keep your eye on Sam and me," whispered Robin to Jim Slagg, finding himself alongside that worthy during a spell of rest. "Let us keep together, whatever happens." Robin did not quite believe that anything serious was going to happen. Some spirits find it as difficult to believe in impending disaster as others find it to believe in continued safety.
"You'd better let me take Sammy, ma'am," said Captain Slagg, swimming quietly alongside of Madge, and speaking in the calm tone of a man taking an evening stroll. "Is that you, Slagg?" asked Sam, who was striking out vigorously. "Yes, sir, it is," said Slagg. "You've no need to exert yourself, sir, so violently. I know the spot well.
By the way, I saw you talking with unusual earnestness this morning to Jim Slagg; what was the matter with him?" "Poor fellow! you'd scarcely believe it, to look at him," replied Robin, "but the lad is actually home-sick." "Home-sick! Why, how's that?
"By no means," added Slagg; "I've heard say that the pirates there are about the wust set o' cut-throats goin' though I don't myself believe there's much difference atween one set and another."
Slagg was right. After the planking had been secured and the rope refastened, those unfortunates found themselves in an unenviable position.
"To my surprise, on returning to our cabin, we found Slagg as we had left him, with both hands on his forehead poring over his book. I was almost as much surprised to see Jeff sit down and laugh heartily. Now, what do you think it could have been?" "It was Slagg, of course," answered the sporting electrician. "Yes, but what causes the tapping?"
"Come, Stumps, don't you be cheeky," said Slagg, quietly picking up his cap and putting it on; "this is a friend o' mine one o' the electricians, so you needn't try to shock his feelin's, for he can give better than he gets. He's got no berth yet, so I brought 'im here to show him hospitality."
If the frequent expanding of the mouth from ear to ear, the exposure of white teeth and red gums, and the shutting up of glittering eyes, indicated enjoyment, the attenuated boy must have been in a blissful condition that day. "Why don't ye shoot yerself, Mister Flinn?" asked Slagg on one occasion while reloading. "Bekaise it shuits me better to look on," answered the self-denying man.
At the same moment Stumps received a resounding and totally unexpected slap on the cheek from Jim Slagg, who planted himself before him with clenched fists and flashing eyes. "What d'ye mean by interferin' wi' my, friend at his dewotions, you monkey-faced polypus?" he demanded fiercely. The monkey-faced polypus replied not a word, but delivered a right-hander that might have felled a small horse.
Of course Jim Slagg determined to go with them, and so did Stumps, though a slight feeling of coldness had begun to manifest itself in that worthy's manner ever since the episode of the division of jewels. John Johnson, however, made up his mind to take service with the Rajah, and help to exterminate the nests of pirates with which those seas were infested.
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