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"Vair is dat?" said Vandertallen, nervously. "For Heaven's sake don't ask such silly questions," said the mate. "You are miles out of your reckoning." "Vell, I'm d !" said the amazed skipper. "Den you must do de reckonin' now, Jim." "That's all very well, Dutchy, but if I have to do the navigation I am entitled to share the pay." "Vary vell," replied his captain, "dat agree."
Leigh, and before it was settled the sisters had a violent tiff, which brought about the climax and made it possible for negotiations to be carried on in favour of a settlement. The father selected the elder girl for Vandertallen, and the younger was fixed on Leigh, who threw himself into the vortex of flirtation with youthful ardour.
Leigh, as he was now addressed by everybody, on the ship or ashore, had intimated to his commander that he liked his berth for the prospects that might open up to him, but he didn't relish the thought of having to pump so continuously; whereupon Captain Vandertallen winked hard at him, and strongly urged that it should be put up with, and to keep his eye on the girls who were to inherit their father's fortune.
"Do it yourself; you are a very clever fellow." "No, no," said Vandertallen; "you know better dan me. Let us be friends, Jim. I call you Jim; you call me Dutchy, or vat you like." "All right, then," said James Leigh. "If that is to be the way, I'll tell you where you are, and if you had run in the same direction other four hours you would have been ashore on the Island of Mocha."
Jim had called his commander "a blithering, fat-headed Dutchman, not fit to have charge of a dung barge, much less a square-rigged ship. Captain Kickem of the Pacific would not have carried you as ballast." Vandertallen was almost inarticulate. He frothed out "Yes, an' you he vould not carry at all; you too much chick. Remember I the captain, and I vill discharge you at first port."
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