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This, of course, woke him up to the real state of the case. It also awoke Slagg, who received the kick on his shins. He, delivering a cry of pain straight into Sam Shipton's ear, caused that youth to fling out his fist, which fell on Stumps's nose, and thus in rapid succession were the sleepers roused effectually to a full sense of their condition.
"`Mind how you go now, whispered Jeff; `it's here somewhere, and there's a hole too look-out there it is! "`What! the ghost? whispered Stumps, beginning to feel uneasy. To say truth, I began to feel uneasy myself without well knowing why. At that moment I fell over something, and came down with a crash that shook Stumps's nerves completely out of order.
"Stumps's calves are running down into his ankles; they want to get to grass." "Better be doing that than gone altogether like yours," etc.
He glanced unintentionally at his bag as he spoke, and the seedy man glanced at it too intentionally. Of course Stumps's glance let the cat out of the bag! "Come," said the stranger, when the brandy was put before them, "drink drink to to the girls we left behind us." "I left no girl behind me," said Stumps.
Aware of Stumps's propensity, Slagg had so arranged that his friend should lie at the stern of the raft with two strands of the binding-cable between him and Robin, who lay next to him. During the first part of the night, Stumps, either overcome by weariness or subdued by his friends' discourses on the stellar world, behaved pretty well.
Afterwards, on the voyage to Borneo, when the bags were emptied and their costly contents examined, it was discovered that many of Stumps's most glittering gems were mere paste almost worthless although some of them, of course, were valuable.
"You were acquainted in Bombay," resumed Captain Wright, very quietly, as he sat down opposite to Stumps, "with a young man named Wright Robin Wright?" Stumps's face became deadly pale. "Ah! I see you were," resumed the captain; "and you and he had something to do, now, with bags of some sort?"
An early shark, intent on picking up sea-worms, observed Stumps's foot, and licked his lips, no doubt. He sank immediately for much the same reason that little boys retire to take a race before a leap. Turning on his back, according to custom, he went at the foot like a submarine thunderbolt. Now, it was at that precise moment that Robin Wright snored, as aforesaid.
The seedy man now launched out into a pleasant light discourse about Bombay and its ways, which highly interested his poor victim. He made no further allusion to the bag, Stumps's behaviour having betrayed all he required to know, namely, that its contents were valuable.
My cigar is out," said the Jew, affecting not to observe Stumps's tone or manner. "It is strange," he went on, "how, sometimes, you find a bad cigar a very bad cigar in the midst of good ones. Yours is going well, I think." "Well enough," answered Stumps, taking another pull at the brandy and water.
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