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He's the chap as come aboard yesterday." "Yes," I panted as I sat up, breathing painfully, "it's Ching. He's our friend." "Yes, flend, evelibody fiend," cried Ching. "Wantee go shore. Fancee shop." "Go ashore?" said the officer. "Yes, walkee shore." "But if I set you ashore amongst that howling mob, they'll cut you to pieces." "Ching 'flaid so. Allee bad man. Wantee kill young offlicer."
"Ching see now," peng, peng, peng "bad men with swords," pang, peng "look velly closs," pang, pong "wantee fightee," pang, pang "you no wantee fightee," pung, pung. "No," I whispered anxiously; "let's go at once." "No takee notice," pang, peng, peng. "All flee, walkee walkee round one sidee house," pang, pong "Ching go long other sidee," peng, peng.
"The other for the fight," I said, feeling pleased to have met a Chinaman who was not dishonest and grasping. "You wantee 'nother fight morrow?" he said, looking at me sharply. "Don't know. Not aflaid." "No, no; you don't understand," I cried, laughing. "We give you six dollars instead of three." Ching nodded, and the silver money disappeared up his sleeve.
These movements were not made in silence: for the falcons, as they flew, kept uttering their shrill cries that sounded like the voice of a pair of angry vixens. "Their young must be near?" suggested Karl. "No, sahib," said Ossaroo, "no nest no chickee. Fritz he hab suppa de piece ob meat ob da ibex. Churk wantee take de dog suppa away." "Oh! Fritz is eating something, is he?" said Caspar.
He must have thrown the stone himself." Rex tried to speak calmly, but he was boiling over with rage at the trick which he now realized had been played upon him. "Me wantee new glass," the Chinaman insisted. "Play money." How fervently Rex wished at that moment that they had come into their inheritance.
No good, velly hungry; wantee go back fancee shop." I thought a good deal about what the Chinaman had said, for it was weary, dispiriting work this overhauling every vessel we saw that seemed likely to be our enemy.
Leslie glared at him speechless until, with a humble little nod, the servant said: "Linga linga bell; too much hullee, John quick come. Wantee someling. Linga linga bell." "Go the devil. Oh, get out before I throw you," roared Leslie, and John vanished with the waft of a blue gown, while Millicent's book crashed against the door close behind his head.
"No, not this time, Ching," cried Barkins, as we all laughed. "No go allee way London? Ching wantee go London, see Queen Victolia and Plince o' Wales." "Some other time, Ching," I said. "But I say, how about the fancy shop?" "Allee light. Ching go back." "And how are you after our fight to-day?" "Velly angly. Allee muchee quite 'shame of mandalin men. Big lascal, evely one."
Then, as their Chinese servant appeared in the doorway, "Your master wants you, John." Before Leslie could grasp her intentions she had vanished, there was a rustle of drapery on the stairway, followed by the jar of a lock, and he was left face to face was the stolid Asiatic. "Wantee someling, sah?" the Chinaman asked.
"Ching!" said Mr Brooke angrily. "You wantee Ching?" came in the familiar highly-pitched voice from forward. "You wantee Ching go buy new boatee?" He came hurrying aft, nearly tumbling once; while, left to his own power alone, the coxswain redoubled his efforts to keep down the water, and the tin baler went scoop scroop, scoop scroop, and splash splash, as he sent the water flying.
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