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Updated: May 27, 2025
But after they were gone people living near naval quarters waited for the next word; and that next word so often came in the form of one laconic sentence, the same cabled back by the topside naval officer or some American consul, that we used to wonder if they had a rubber stamp for it that laconic, reassuring sentence!
Tense silence fell as Tom's eyes followed the sweep of the second hand. "All clear for blast-off!" came the talker's report. Tom pressed the firing button. A split second later the listeners' eardrums throbbed to a muffled roar from topside as the slender recovery missile shot skyward. The ship rocked convulsively from the shock of blast-off.
I noted some one-decimeter southern bullhead, a species of whitish cartilaginous fish overrun with bluish gray stripes and armed with stings, then some Antarctic rabbitfish three feet long, the body very slender, the skin a smooth silver white, the head rounded, the topside furnished with three fins, the snout ending in a trunk that curved back toward the mouth.
"Yes; might see Ching flom velly long way topside lock chop. Then think " "Think, yes, of course." "Not allee same you think. See Ching? Yes; see John Chinaman in blue flock allee torn, long tow-chang; that's all." I did not grasp his meaning for a moment. "Oh, I see," I cried at last; "you mean that if they did see you, they would think it was one of their own crew?" "Yes; think one of own clew.
'Shall we breakfast now, or wait till we get up topside? asked Ken. Roy gave him a quick look. 'It might be as well to feed now, he said quietly. 'You see, I haven't a notion how we're going to get out of this. Ken stared. Such a point of view had never occurred to him.
"Four-piecee dlown," reiterated Charlie calmly. "One, thlee, five, nine, come asho'. Him other no come." "Where are the ones that came ashore?" asked Wilbur. Charlie waved a hand back into the night. "Him make um camp topside ole house." "That old whaling-camp," prompted Moran. Then to Wilbur: "You remember about a hundred yards north the creek?"
"You would think, with your ship coming through the war zone and your watch down in the bottom of her, that you would want to go up topside when your watch was done, for, of course, if any U-boat got the ship, it would be the fellows below who would first get the full benefit." But that gang of his!
Oh, said nothing directly, of course. Friendly call, and all that. But his indirections speak straight enough. We understood each other. The dregs of the town are all stirred up bottomside topside danger point. He, in case you know can't give us any help. No means, no recourse. His chief's fairly itching to cashier him.
He say, 'God damn thief! catchee flowty dollar: come to jailee. Me no takee back. You leavee money topside blulow, Fiddletown. Me fetchee money you. Me no takee back." Mrs. Tretherick hesitated. In the confusion of her flight, she MIGHT have left the money in the manner he had said. In any event, she had no right to jeopardize this honest Chinaman's safety by refusing it.
"You're not wearing the new-model tickler I sent you," he said accusingly. "I never got it," Gusterson assured him. "Postmen deliver topside mail and parcels by throwing them on the high-speed garbage boosts and hoping a tornado will blow them to the right addresses." Then he added helpfully, "Maybe the Russians stole it while it was riding the whirlwinds."
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