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Updated: May 12, 2025
I saw it first in the slanting light of a redly setting August sun; the little tuft of green shrubbery that crests its summit was black against the crimson of sea and sky, and its colossal base of grey stone gleamed like flaming polished granite. My old tillicum lifted his paddle blade to point towards it. "You know the story?" he asked.
"I must be very careful," Matt told himself, "for if that concern should go broke while the Tillicum is en route to Panama my charter to Morrow & Company may be considered to have terminated automatically; and if they go under owing me from ten to twenty thousand dollars, I'm still responsible to Cappy Ricks for my charter of the Tillicum until I can bring her back to her home port and turn her back to him.
It took my unaccustomed eyes some moments to discern it; then all at once I caught its outline, veiled in the mists of distance grey, cobwebby, dreamy. "Yes," I replied, "I see it now. You will tell me of it tillicum?" He gave a swift glance at my dark skin, then nodded. "You are one of us," he said, with evidently no thought of a possible contradiction.
"Well, I thought we'd take a chance on her," Matt replied, not taking the trouble to disabuse Kelton of the impression to which he had apparently jumped to wit, that the Pacific Shipping Company had purchased the Tillicum. "What do you intend doing with her?" Kelton continued. "They tell me business is good on the Panama run, and it will be better when the Canal is opened.
Acton had come back with his party when a man dropped into the boat astern of the schooner, and pulled towards the Tillicum leisurely. Everybody was on deck when he slid alongside, and, standing up in his boat, laid hold of the rail. "I've a message for Mr. Acton," he said, holding up a strip of paper. Acton, who took the paper from him, was a trifle perplexed when he glanced at it.
In these little matters one might as well be courteous, and I should hate to have the Tillicum acquire a reputation for being cheap and inhospitable." "You dirty dog!" cried Cappy Ricks hoarsely. "Really, my dear Peasley, this matter has passed beyond the joke stage," Mr. Skinner began suavely. "Let me get along with my story," said he. "The worst is yet to come. My attorney informs me "
It ran: Humptulips, Tum Tum, Moclips, Yelm, Satsop, Bucoda, Omak, Enumclaw, Tillicum, Bossburg, Chettlo, Chattaroy, Zillah, Selah, Cowiche, Keechelus, Bluestem, Bluelight, Onion Creek, Sockeye, Antwine, Chopaka, Startup, Kapowsin, Skamokawa, Sixprong, Pysht!
Kelton was in urgent need of a steamer to cope with the congestion of freight, and the Tillicum suited the purpose of his company admirably; hence, the news that he might still be able to acquire her filled him with sudden hope. "Indeed!" he reiterated.
"But what became of him?" "How should I know, sir? I've been as busy as a bird dog down in Panama. Please let me get on with my story. I had just cleared Point Loma and was about to surrender the bridge to my first mate when an interesting little message came trickling out of the ether and my wireless boy picked it up, because it was addressed to 'Captain Grant, Master S. S. Tillicum."
After dinner I wandered astern with the traveller's ever-present hope of seeing the beauties of a typical Northern sunset, and by some happy chance I placed my deck-stool near an old tillicum, who was leaning on the rail, his pipe between his thin, curved lips, his brown hands clasped idly, his sombre eyes looking far out to sea, as though they searched the future or was it that they were seeing the past?
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