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I'll join now; but I don't want to be toggled in such a way as you said last night." "Then you can't be toggled at all." "I haven't any idea of falling overboard accidentally. I'd rather lose my money than do that." "It's nothing but a form, Wilton. Between you and me, it's only a bugbear, intended to work upon the nerves and the imagination.
Without a word he then went outside, securely toggled the leading dog, and returning, closed the door and seated himself at the end of the table opposite Jean. The light from the open window fell full on Croisset's dark face and shone in a silvery streak along the top of Howland's revolver as the muzzle of it rested casually on a line with the other's breast.
"I don't want you to go in if you don't believe in it." "But I do believe in it; so go ahead." Shuffles pronounced the ridiculous obligation again, and Wilton repeated it after him. "Now you are toggled," said the leader. "What are we going to do?" "Bring in the rest of our fellows; that is the first job. In my opinion we can get over fifty of them now."
As soon as the bars were spread open, and the swifter passed and set up, a square sheet of the stoutest canvas, painted, was spread over them, the edges laced to the swifter with a stout lacing, and the crowfoot toggled through the intermediate holes in the bars and corresponding holes in the canvas.
By the exercise of some tact, the conspirators found a convenient place under the top-gallant forecastle to consider the project. Pelham was duly "toggled," and offered no objection to the penalty; indeed, he only laughed at it. "Suppose we get possession of the ship what then?" asked Pelham. "We will go on a cruise. I understand that she has provisions for a six months' voyage on board.
"You can't know anything more about it until you have been toggled," replied Shuffles. "Toggled?" repeated the sceptic, curiously. "This thing is to be well managed, Wilton. We shall not use any hard words, that outsiders can understand; and if any of them happen to hear anything that don't concern them, they will not know what it means. Will you join, or not?"
"That is, you would push me over when no one was looking," added Wilton, involuntarily retreating from the conspirator, whom, for the moment, he regarded as a very dangerous companion. "That's what the words mean," replied Shuffles, coolly. "Have I been toggled?" demanded Wilton. "No; you didn't repeat all the words." "Then you needn't toggle me any more. I've got enough of this thing."
We're going to make a real Western picture, Lite, you and I. Lee and Gil and all the rest will be in it, of course; but we're going to put in the real West. And we're going to put in the ranch, the REAL Lazy A, Lite. Not these dinky little sets that Burns has toggled up with bits of the bluff showing for background, but the ranch just as it it used to be."
Jean drew forth his revolver and deliberately cocked it. "Bear in mind, M'seur, that I will kill you if you break your word. You may go ahead." And he pointed down the side of the mountain. Half-way down the ridge a low word from Croisset stopped the engineer. Jean had toggled his team with a stout length of babeesh on the mountain top and he was looking back when Howland turned toward him.
Fastened to the slings on the sinker was a rope ten fathoms in length. A loop was formed in this line, close to the sinker, and the bight passed through the slings on the hogshead. The loop was then laid over the two ropes, one of which was fast to the sinker, and the other was the unattached end of the line, and "toggled" on with a marline-spike.
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