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Updated: June 23, 2025
"Shall I have breakfast?" she asked uncertainly. "Why not?" Silently, she operated the food-readier. She ate. Calhoun gave the impression that he would respond politely when spoken to, but that he was busy with activities that kept him remote from stowaways. About noon, ship-time, she asked; "When will we get to Orede?" Calhoun told her absently, as if he were thinking of something else.
The cook usually picks out a likely porter to help him, or a toto, which means "little boy" in Swahili. There are always a lot of boys who go along, unofficially, just for the fun and the food of the trip. They are not hired, but go as stowaways, and for the first few days out remain much in the background.
And Betty had no sooner detected the presence on the Gem of stowaways than she had pulled shut the sliding door leading into the trunk cabin, and had slid the hatch cover forward, fastening both with the hasps. "They'll stay there until we get an officer," she explained. "Probably they are tramps!" "Oh, Betty!" It was a startled trio who cried thus.
I confessed that we had not, but added that we wanted very much to get in. "My eyes!" said the bad boy, doubling himself in a fit of amusement, "I believe you're both going for stowaways." "What do you mean by stowaways?" I asked. "Stowaways is chaps that hides aboard vessels going out of port, to get their passage free gratis for nothing." "Do a good many manage it?" I asked with an anxious mind.
These land stowaways play a great part over here in America, and I should have liked dearly to become acquainted with them. At Elko an odd circumstance befell me. I was coming out from supper, when I was stopped by a small, stout, ruddy man, followed by two others taller and ruddier than himself. "Excuse me, sir," he said, "but do you happen to be going on?"
"There ain't a vessel leaves the docks without one and sometimes more aboard. The captain never looks that way, not by no accident whatsoever. He don't lift no tarpaulins while the ship's in dock. But when she gets to sea the captain gets his eyesight back, and he takes it out of the stowaways for their wittles then. Oh, yes, rather so!" said the bad boy. There was a crowd at the gates.
"To try it?" "To stand you a drink next time you ordered us off your beastly boat," said Dicky. And Oswald rejoiced to hear the roar of laughter that responded to this fortunate piece of cheek. I suppose Dicky's face was so angel-like, innocent-looking, like stowaways in books, that they had to believe him. Oswald told him so afterwards, and Dicky hit out.
But the searchers were checkmated at the outset by failing to find the boys at the Docks. The police in the end convinced themselves and the captain that the pair had stolen on board some foreign vessel on the eve of its departure, and, as stowaways, were already far off on the deep. But which of the many hundreds of ships that had set sail since might the boys possibly be aboard?
"Stowaways?" he said. "I'll talk to you presently." He stepped over the engineer. "Heh? What's the matter?" he called up as he put his foot on the ladder. "Mate's drunk an' 'ncapable, sir," answered the seaman from above. "What o' that?" was the unexpected reply. "Let the poor body lie, an' you hold her to her course." "But she's chasin' 'er tail, sir.
That's where she walks." "She!" "That's his yarn a female ghost, a black 'un, black clo'es anyhow. He's a dashed fool, but he's no boozer, though his mate's tongue is a bit thick yet. I'll take the forenoon watch, an' you might overhaul the ship for stowaways after breakfast.
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