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Updated: June 27, 2025
So Godfrey had good reason to interfere in favour of the intruder, and Captain Turcott, who pretended to be angrier than he really was, gave up the idea of sending Seng Vou overboard to battle with the waves of the Pacific. Seng Vou, however, did not return to his hiding-place in the hold, though he was rather an incubus on board.
His presence on board put into Captain Turcott's head an idea which his mate probably was the only one to understand thoroughly. "He will bother us a bit this confounded Chinee! after all, so much the worse for him." "What ever made him stow himself away on board the Dream?" answered the mate. "To get to Shanghai!" replied Captain Turcott. "Bless John and all John's sons too!"
A steam launch was even carried, to facilitate communication with the shore, and this would probably be of great service during the voyage. Everything was ready on the 10th of June. They had only to put to sea. The men shipped by Captain Turcott to work the sails or drive the engine were a picked crew, and it would have been difficult to find a better one.
"Turcott, you promised to keep the secret!" said Phina with a blush. And Uncle William W. Kolderup, shaking his big head, tried in vain to hide that he was touched. But if Godfrey could not restrain his smiles as he listened to the explanations of Uncle Will, Professor Tartlet did not laugh in the least! He was excessively mortified at what he heard!
However, I rather think it must have been the captain. Anyhow, after eight days of interviewing, the merchant and the captain were in accord, but Turcott did not cease to grumble between his teeth. "May five hundred thousand Davy Joneses drag me to the bottom if ever I had a job like this before!"
What was this coast which Captain Turcott had thought he saw in the darkness? To which continent did it belong? It was only too certain that the Dream had been driven out of her route during the storm of the preceding days. The position of the ship could not have been exactly fixed.
Had they all been sucked in by the terrible whirlpool which the ship had drawn round herself as she sank? The last to whom Godfrey had spoken was Captain Turcott, resolved not to quit his ship while one of his sailors was still there! It was the captain himself who had hurled him into the sea at the moment the Dream was disappearing.
"Yes! our look-outs saw from the whiteness of the sea that there were some breakers away to the east; breakers which are not shown on the chart. So the steam launch was got out, and with the boatswain and three men, Captain Turcott has gone off to explore." "How long ago?" "About an hour and a half!" "Ah!" said Godfrey, "I am sorry he did not tell me. I should like to have gone too."
High words were constantly heard, proving that the interviews were stormy. Captain Turcott, with his plain speaking, knew how to withstand William W. Kolderup, who loved and esteemed him enough to permit him to contradict him. And now all was arranged. Who had given in? William W. Kolderup or Turcott? I dare not say, for I do not even know the subject of their discussion.
Captain Turcott, never fear, would not find it difficult to pay the expenses of the voyage! Godfrey Morgan's whim would not cost the avuncular purse a single dollar! That is the way they do business in the best commercial houses! All this was decided at long, very secret interviews between William W. Kolderup and Captain Turcott.
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