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An' he was fifteen 'fore he got back from that v'y'ge. Mebbe I'll tell ye 'bout it some time or Cap'n Am'zon will. He's been a deep-bottom sailor from that day to this." "And where is he now?" asked Louise. "Why mebbe! he's on his way here. I shouldn't wonder. He might step in at that door any minute," and Cap'n Abe's finger indicated the store door.
He shook his head and cast a wary glance toward the companionway to see that the skipper was not appearing from below. "Listen here, Miss Bostwick," he said hoarsely. "It's a mighty curious thing. I had just come back from a v'y'ge to New Guinea, and I thinks I'd like a trip to the Banks, not having been fishin' since I was a boy.
"And you were asking about my fee were you not? You'll have to pay, you know if you can for I believe in that sort of thing. Could you manage three dollars?" "We was 'lowin'," the skipper answered, "t' pay about seven when we sold the v'y'ge in the fall. 'Tis a wonderful bad hand Bill Sparks has got." "Let it be seven," said the doctor, quickly.
"They are my friends," Cora hastened to explain, "and they come from Beach Plum Point." "Do tell! If you air goin' back to-night, better make a good v'y'ge of it. We're due for a blow, I allow. You folks ain't stoppin' right on the p'int, be ye?" Ruth, to whom he addressed this last question, answered that they were, and explained that there was a large camp there this season, and why. "Wal, wal!
So you see, Miles, I've stepped into my estate again, as well as yourself. As for your offer to pay me wages for the whole of last v'y'ge" this word Marble could only spell as he pronounced it "it's generous, and that's a good deal in these bloody dishonest times, but I'll not touch a copper. When a ship's lost, the wages are lost with her, and that's law and reason.
"Some thinks birds don't know nothing, or ain't much account in this man-world But, as I was sayin', I lay another course. I'll never forget one v'y'ge I made on the brigantine Hermione. That was 'fore the day of steam-winches and we carried a big crew thirty-two men for'ard and a big after-guard. "Well, ma'am! Whilst she was hove down in a blow off the Horn an albatross came aboard.
I saw that his days were numbered, and felt it to be a duty to let him know his real situation. It was an unpleasant office, but became less so by the resigned and manly manner in which the invalid heard me. It was only when I ceased speaking, that he made an attempt to reply. "I have known that the v'y'ge of life was pretty near up, Miles," he then answered, "for many a day.
"'Tisn't often that a sealer lets a station like that you've described drop out of his recollection in a single v'y'ge." "I may be back or I may not" said Roswell, just then remembering Mary, and wondering if she would continue to keep him any longer in suspense, should he return successful from his present adventure "That will depend on others more than on myself.
The time may come, but not now. My papers is signed for this v'y'ge. Stephen Spike has a halter round his neck, as you say yourself, and it's necessary for me to be there to look to't. We all have our callin's and duties, and this is mine. I stick by the Molly and her captain until both are out of this scrape, or both are condemned.
"I've had to do that so often, to one careless fellow or other, that the circumstance does n't recall the man. I remember him but not as clear as I could wish. How long did he sail with us?" "Sebberal v'y'ge, sir, and got left ashore down on the main, one night, when'e boat were obliged to shove off in a hurry. Yes, 'members little Jack, right well I does."
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