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Updated: May 16, 2025
"It's all right, only tell Mr Abdullah not to be so handy with his kris again, and that I Mr Roberts, of Her Majesty's ship `Startler' think he ought to present us with some durians." This was duly interpreted to the Malay, who drew back, gazing keenly from the ensign to the middy, and back again, his dark eyes seeming to flash, as he said something in his native tongue to the interpreter.
"Say, I haven't seen you since you played the hero up in the fashionable part of town. Gee, that was a startler! I'll bet old man Cable rewards you in some way. What's your theory about the hold-up?" Droom looked up sharply. For the first time there shot into his mind the thought that the breezy boy might be a spy. "I haven't any," he replied shortly.
Doubtless because he himself was much fatigued, the mate allowed him to run at his will, without for the time attempting to haul any closer to him, and very grateful the short rest was to us. But he had not gone a couple of miles before he turned a complete somersault in the water, coming up BEHIND us to rush off again in the opposite direction at undiminished speed. This move was a startler.
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