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Had the deck steward not been familiar with stowaways, he doubtless would have been moved by the flood of eloquent persuasion which Sandy brought to bear. As it was, he led him ruthlessly down the narrow steps, past the long line of curious passengers, then down again to the steerage deck, where he deposited him on a coil of rope and bade him stay there until he was sent for.
How do you feel inclined, Ben Trench? Bein' the invalid of our party, so to speak, you're entitled, I think, to speak first." "I say, Go," replied Ben. "And I say ditto," burst from Watty Wilkins with powerful emphasis. "You wasn't axed yet," observed Bob Corkey. "Besides, stowaways have no right to speak at all." "What says Mr Luke!" continued the captain. "Don't go," answered Mr Luke feebly.
It illumined the open door of the bulkhead which walled off the storeroom. And in this doorway, like a life-sized portrait, grotesque and sinister, set in a frame, was the figure of Blackbeard. He advanced into the hold and the cowering stowaways assumed that he had come to search them out.
"What's wrong with you, you young you?" began the captain. The snicker died slowly from Nipper's lips, and in his face dawned an infinite, surprised respect.... Then, after he had subdued us: "So you're stowaways, eh?... and you think you're going to be given a free ride to Brisbane and let go ashore, scot free?... not much!
"There! there! there again! There she blows right ahead, boys! lay back! "Never heed yonder yellow boys, Archy." "Oh, I don't mind'em, sir," said Archy; "I knew it all before now. Didn't I hear 'em in the hold? And didn't I tell Cabaco here of it? What say ye, Cabaco? They are stowaways, Mr. Flask."
Let us put it so. But these resignations are sometimes very trying. At length, after having delighted us for hours, he took himself away from the companion; and I could ask Mackay who and what he was. 'That? said Mackay. 'Why, that's one of the stowaways.
"Might 'ave been a stowaway, yer know," I heard Quoin, the one who had suggested it before, remark to one of the A.B's named Stubbins a short, rather surly-looking chap. "Might have been hell!" returned Stubbins. "Stowaways hain't such fools as all that." "I dunno," said the first. "I wish I 'ad arsked the Second what 'e thought about it."
"Nevertheless, you can't," persisted the philosopher; "how could two men fight on a raft where there's not room for a fair stand-up scrimmage between two rats? Come now, don't argue, Burr, but answer little Wilkins's question if you can." "Stowaways don't desarve to have their questions answered," said Corkey; "in fact, they don't desarve to live.
In spite of herself her flesh began to creep a little. "They're men," whispered Anna-Felicitas, now dangerously congested. "Stowaways are." There had been no one in the cabin when first they came on board and took their things down, and they hadn't been in it since till they came to bed. "German men," whispered Anna-Felicitas, again with a delicate expressive sniff.
Rigidly speaking, this would end the chapter of the stowaways; but in a larger sense of the word I have yet more to add. Jones had discovered and pointed out to me a young woman who was remarkable among her fellows for a pleasing and interesting air.
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