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"Don't make a fuss, my hearty: I want to introduce you to the captain." "What have you got there, Mr. Dashington?" asked Captain Breaker, who was standing near the owner. "I have got a young cub who says he is a Southern gentleman; and I suppose he is," replied the first officer. "But he is a stowaway, and was hid away under my berth in the ward-room.
Yet they looked after him with even more inquisitive eyes when, on the second day out, he was peremptorily summoned to the Captain's room. What took place in that room no one in the ship ever actually knew. But the large-bodied stowaway returned below-decks, white of face and grim of jaw.
There were volunteers enough eager to undertake the perilous task to form a ship’s crew, and to the six seamen chosen Coxswain Clausen added himself as a stowaway. The love of adventure was stronger than fear of death or captivity. It was the morning of June 3, 1898. During the night before an attempt to go in had been made, but the hour was so late that the admiral called the vessel back.
I have no other excuse for coming aboard your ship as a stowaway." The Captain still eyed him narrowly. "I believe you are honest, young man. If I am deceived in you I shall never trust the eyes of another man as long as I live. Sit down, Mr. Percival. I shall put you to work, never fear, but in the meantime I am very much interested in what you were doing up in the hills.
Blast it, Jack, my hearty, stock us up and we could lie tucked in the forepeak for a month o' Sundays." "But the rats and the darkness and the stinks, and to be expecting discovery," was Jack's dreary comment. "It would ha' looked like a parlor to me when I was on that barren cay and sighted Ned Rackham's rogues coming off from the snow," said the other stowaway.
"No, it's a stowaway. The conundrum is to know what to do with the little rascal." "Meaning who?" "James A. Garfield Welch. I found him tucked away in my berth, very much the worse for wear." The Englishman helped himself to asparagus tips and laughed. "He's certainly a persevering young beggar. He hung around me for three days trying to persuade me to take him. Now he's here on French leave."
I had at his hands every chance of leading a respectable life, but I did not want to become smug and honest. My early training was too strong for that, so after a year or two of enforced goodness I ran away to sea. The vessel I embarked on as a stowaway was bound for America.
Following their capture, Folwell and Munson, the latter the stowaway of the airship, had been in earnest conversation regarding our friends, but what conclusion they had reached the adventurers could only guess. "And we didn't have time to examine the diamond-making machinery close enough so that we could duplicate it if necessary," complained Tom, a little later. "No," agreed Mr. Jenks.
If so, such a stowaway would be in the sleeping cabin now, waiting for Calhoun to walk in unsuspiciously, only to be shot dead. So Calhoun made coffee. He slipped a blaster into a pocket where it would be handy. He filled a small cup for Murgatroyd and a large one for himself, and then a second large one. He tapped on the sleeping cabin door, standing aside lest a blaster-bolt come through it.
Since I crossed the Atlantic, one miserable stowaway was found in a dying state among the fuel, uttered but a word or two, and departed for a farther country than America. When the stowaway appears on deck, he has but one thing to pray for: that he be set to work, which is the price and sign of his forgiveness.
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