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Each discovered that the others knew nothing; and each blundered against the astounding fact of double wages. "All I know is the pay's good; and that's enough," concluded Thrackles, from a bunk. "The pay's too good," growled Handy Solomon. "This ain't no job to go look at the 'clipse of the moon, or the devil's a preacher!" "W'at you maik heem, den?" queried Perdosa.
"Northern lights," hazarded Pulz. "I've seen them almost like that in the Behring Seas." "Northern lights your eye!" sneered Handy Solomon. "What do you think, sir?" Thrackles inquired of the assistant. "Devil's fire," replied Percy Darrow briefly. "The island's a little queer. I've noticed it before." "Debbil fire," repeated the Nigger. Darrow turned directly to him.
The same quality of concrete speculation showed him what we lacked in our own lives. There was, as you remember, the matter of Handy Solomon's steel claw. He showed Thrackles a kind of lanyard knot that deep-sea person had never used. He taught Captain Selover how to make soft soap out of one species of seaweed. Me, he initiated in the art of fishing with a white bone lure.
Their evil passions were all awake, and the plan, so long indefinite, developed like a photographer's plate. "That's one," said Thrackles. "One gone to hell." "And now the diamonds," muttered Pulz. "There's a ship upon the windward, a wreck upon the lee, Down on the coast of the high Barbare-e-e," roared Handy Solomon. "Damn it all, boys, it's the best night's work we ever did. The stuff's ours.
"Thrackles, he just took it to clean it you can have it whenever you want it, sir." "I have no cartridges as you have observed," said I. "There's plenty aboard," he suggested. "And they're in very good hands there," said I. He ruminated a moment, polishing the steel of his hook against the other arm of his shirt. Suddenly he looked up at me with a humorous twinkle.
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